Posted on 04/23/2018 4:33:59 PM PDT by Simon Green
Kyle Kashuv is a Parkland student who, just like Emma Gonzalez and David Hogg, was at Douglas High School the day Nikolas Cruz murdered 17 of his classmates. Unlike Gonzalez and Hogg and many other Douglas survivors, Kashuv has been a lone, persistent student voice in favor of gun rights and the Second Amendment.
Despite his support for the right to keep and bear arms, Kashuv didn’t own a firearm and had never fired one. That changed over the weekend when he went to a range with his father. He tweeted stills and video of the range session.
As night follows day, he was attacked on line for daring to fire an AR in a safe and controlled manner. Kashuv no doubt expected the reaction and shrugged it off.
But today, as the Daily Wire reports, when he returned to class, he was informed by Douglas High’s principal that his range tweets had traumatized some of his fellow students. And the reaction didn’t end there.
Kashuv was later pulled out of class and interrogated by two school resource officers, Broward County deputies.
Near the end of third period, my teacher got a call from the office saying I need to go down and see a Mr. Greenleaf. I didn’t know Mr. Greenleaf, but it turned out that he was an armed school resource officer. I went down and found him, and he escorted me to his office. Then a second security officer walked in and sat behind me. Both began questioning me intensely. First, they began berating my tweet, although neither of them had read it; then they began aggressively asking questions about who I went to the range with, whose gun we used, about my father, etc. They were incredibly condescending and rude.
Then a third officer from the Broward County Sheriff’s Office walked in, and began asking me the same questions again. At that point, I asked whether I could record the interview. They said no. I asked if I had done anything wrong. Again, they answered no. I asked why I was there. One said, “Don’t get snappy with me, do you not remember what happened here a few months ago?”
They continued to question me aggressively, though they could cite nothing I had done wrong. They kept calling me “the pro-Second Amendment kid.” I was shocked and honestly, scared. It definitely felt like they were attempting to intimidate me.
I was treated like a criminal for no reason other than having gone to the gun range and posted on social media about it.
Kashuv has criticized the Broward County Sheriff and his band of incompetent men on Face the Nation for their lack of action regarding Cruz leading up to the Parkland shooting and the school resource officer’s cowardly behavior during the shooting. Observers seeing the Broward deputies’ interrogation of Kashuv today might conclude that sweating him was simply retaliation for his nationally broadcast statements, but we couldn’t possibly comment.
If only any of Sheriff Scott Israel’s disinterested deputies had spent half as much time investigating Nikolas Cruz’s extra-curricular activities, a student with a long and demonstrated history of violence and criminal behavior on the Douglas High campus. Who knows how many lives might have been saved?
Should have given them a 3 word reply. GFY.
“I elect to remain silent and to retain counsel.”
Have to start teaching kids that phrase.
Pam Bondi assured everyone she would be investigating and make sure the guilty were prosecuted, didn’t she?
Haven’t heard from her since then.
Hogg is in their pocket and yesterday’s mashed potatoes. Kashuv is their challenge now. They want to break his will. He reminds folks of their shortcomings on that day.
Well, there's Al Pacino's comment about another cop: "I'm talking about a cop that's mixed up in drugs. I'm talking about a dishonest cop and a crooked cop who got mixed up in the rackets..."
They continued to question me aggressively, though they could cite nothing I had done wrong. They kept calling me “the pro-Second Amendment kid.” I was shocked and honestly, scared. It definitely felt like they were attempting to intimidate me.
Obama’s Brown Shirts.
The cowards of the Broward County Sheriff’s Office were unwilling to investigate reports of a dangerous student. Those cowards were unwilling to take a black mark on school records that would come with filing charges against a dangerous psycho. Those cowards were unwilling to face an armed shooter, even as innocent children were being killed. But they are brave enough to bully a normal, decent child. Leftists disgust me. I am too forgiving to hope they all get the justice they deserve . . . unless this bullying continues. Perhaps I’m too gentle in the face of pure evil.
I don’t give two craps about the officers telling him not to record. Kyle should’ve hit record anyhow and watched these mf’s shut up the intimidation real quick. Then walk out. They already told him he had done nothing wrong. Pure fascist behavior.
I will record any and all contact with LE. ALL. They record us. Why are they so special that we can’t record THEM?
Get a lawyer, Kyle!! Get. A. Lawyer.
Bullies and cowards. Engaging in political repression and they know it.
Pure intimidation.
He needs a little pocket digital recorder he can turn on and off remotely.
Very nasty stuff.
Browars cowards are true to form. Hide from an armed child, but gang up on a single unarmed child who dared to speak his mind.
Why doesn’t someone put a bag over their heads, and beat them bloody? If they can’t learn not to be cowards and bullies; they can painfully learn not to gang up on children. And lesson should be very painful, fright img and leave life long scars. Lord knows their victims bear them.
Holy crap call a lawyer! $$$$$$
“His mistake was not to record them.
They said they weren’t going to let him do that”
Do it anyway. Make them physically grab you to stop it.
Also, this crooked cop Israel (what an ironic name) is butt buddies with the Miami chapter of CAIR, at least indirectly linked to islamic terrorists.
Sheriff Israel makes Captain McCluskey look like Sheriff David Clarke.
They interrogate this innocent kid but they dont ask to see the phone records of David Hogg because if they did they would find out he had contact with Nikolas Cruz before the shooting..so instead they go after Kyle who has bee a staunch Second Amendment supporter, which to leftists at Parkland must mean he is dangerous
I hope young Master Kyle gets a good attorney and sues the crap out of the cowards from broward. Nobody on this planet deserves to be fired and bancrupted like the faggot assed puke sheriff.
And in FL it’s a low grade felony to record someone without their permission.
As a retired LEO, this disturbs me on many levels. First, since the event took place on a supervised range with his father, there was no need for ANYONE to question what he was doing. If he didn’t make any threats towards the school, the officers involved had no standing or probable cause to believe he was a threat to himself or others.
Second, he should contact the BCSD and file a formal complaint against the officers involved. Third, he should retain counsel (I’m sure someone would be willing to represent him PRO BONO and file a lawsuit against the sheriff, the school system, and also seek a TPO against further impromptu interrogations.
The depth of incompetence of this sheriff and his department are mind-blowing. I feel sorry for the truly good Broward County Deputies that have to suffer the crap of this sheriff.
He needs to go through the legal system, but it’s beyond that. The citizens of Broward County should raise Hell until the SROs and their supervisors are fired.
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