[muawiyah]

Did I flame the cops?

I thought I'd flamed the teachers and school administrators for taking the uncooborated word of a minor concerning the nature of a substance he'd brought to school.

In the end the cops are the ones who exonerated the kid by determining that the sugar he'd brought was, in fact, sugar.

[Old Student]

"Did I flame the cops?

I thought I'd flamed the teachers and school administrators for taking the uncooborated word of a minor concerning the nature of a substance he'd brought to school.

In the end the cops are the ones who exonerated the kid by determining that the sugar he'd brought was, in fact, sugar."

I think you misread the article. The teachers and administrators did not take the kid's unsupported word; they'd had someone (a janitor) overhear him describing it as cocaine. The janitor reported it to the administrator, who in turn called the cops. The cops then arrested the kid, charging him with a violation of the law. The cops tested the substance, and found that it was sugar, but under the law, he is charged with a felony. Since he is charged with violating the law, he is now suspended by the administrator, as required by law. It's obvious that the teachers and administrators are all idiots who don't know how to do their jobs...and that you don't read very carefully.

Just FYI, teachers and school administrators have no more in the way of police powers (and no less) than any other citizen. I suggested you might want to flame the cops, not that you had, and you went off on a tangent again.