Fresno Unified Parents, Students Rally Demanding Policing Funds Shift to Student Wellness

https://www.kmjnow.com ^ | June 8, 2021 | KMJ

[Enterprise]

“All FUSD students deserve to attend schools where they are safe, respected, and supported. Continuing to have police on campus harms Black and brown students who are exhausted from seeing their families harassed by police and witnessing high profile police-killings of young people on TV and social media. We know police on campus don’t prevent mass shootings. Since Columbine we’ve dramatically increased police presence in schools, yet mass shootings have grown exponentially,” said Ashley Rojas, Executive Director of Fresno Barrios Unidos and Fresno’s Education Justice Coalition. “Police criminalize Black and brown students. We have an opportunity here in Fresno to rectify this harm and choose a future that prioritizes the health and wellness of all our students.”

[Enterprise]

I had to hold my nose reading that.

[bagster]

We know police on campus don’t prevent mass shootings.

Impossible to prove.

That's like saying traffic laws don't prevent traffic accidents because there are still traffic accidents.

How may traffic accidents DID traffic laws prevent?

And furthermore. There are quite a few other dangers to students' safety than 'mass shootings'.

These parents must have rooted for the bad kids in 'Blackboard Jungle'.

Or maybe they WERE those kids.

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#InOurOwnBackyard

[This_Dude]

Does anyone else read these type of horseshit statements put out by everyone these days and think of the movie demolition man?

[hanamizu]

“Police criminalize Black and brown students.”

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I think a lot of black and brown students criminalize themselves. (And why is black capitalized and not brown in the FBU&FEJC’s statement?)