Cops Charge 7-Year-Old for Bringing [Nerf-style] Toy Gun to Class

NBC Philadelphia ^ | Feb 3, 2011 | TERESA MASTERSON and DAVID CHANG

[aruanan]

Cops Charge 7-Year-Old for Bringing [Nerf-style] Toy Gun to Class

A school in Oklahoma has this beat, as they suspended a 1st Grader for pretending his hand was a gun...

Really, people who engage in this kind of lack of discrimination need to be beaten publicly with a rattan cane.

[exDemMom]

You’re attributing to incompetence what is better explained by an agenda.

I'm not so sure the two are inseparable. It can be argued that those who are agenda-driven either don't have, or choose to suppress, their natural intellect.

[Charlespg]

Police charged the 7-year-old with possessing an imitation firearm in or on an education institution – a misdemeanor and a minor juvenile offense in New Jersey.

New jersey where common sense and the constitution went to die

[crosshairs]

However, if you sneak into American and steal somebody’s identity, it’s no big deal. The DemocRATS will defend your “right” to do it.

And you can even be elected president.

[steveo]

Good thing the kid didn’t bring his puppy to school ‘cause the cops would have shot it.

[exDemMom]

As a child I played war, I played cowboys and Indians, I played cops and robbers. Guns, guns, guns. Neither I nor my friends have ever shot anybody.

I also played "pigs and hippies." Weapons were the same (squirt guns or deadly loaded index fingers).

Well, I *am* exDemMom.

[The Comedian]

As I just noted on the thread about the 14 yr old who got charged with assault for spit wads:

It is now illegal to be an American boy in America.

Fight the power.

Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.

[Revolting cat!]

[Charlespg]

Really, people who engage in this kind of lack of discrimination need to be beaten publicly with a rattan cane.

make that stupidly,and permanently banning them from teaching jobs and law enforcement needs to be done as well

[hifidelity]

I don’t think they can get away with this charge. It says “in or on an education institution”. I doubt there is any education happening at this joint.

[boomop1]

Shame on who wrote this moronic story, the insane society hurls again.

[grasshopper2]

Deseire Gherard, a parent of one of the students at the school, agrees with the policy

I feel sorry for Deseire Gherard's kids.

[Prokopton]

Well if the school demands the kid be charged, the cops hands are tied.

Not true. Police can present reports to the prosecutor who then determines whether or not to bring charges. School "demands" have no legal standing.

[thefactor]

If you're on scene, a law has been broken, and the complainant insists an arrest be made then there really isn't much of a choice. At least not in the real world. Then you talk to the DA and hopefully they'll decline prosecution.

I've locked up people for lifting a pack of gum because of zero-tolerance policies. It's ridiculous.

[3niner]

Police charged the 7-year-old with possessing an imitation firearm in or on an education institution – a misdemeanor and a minor juvenile offense in New Jersey.

Insanity, another name for Government.

[Prokopton]

I've locked up people for lifting a pack of gum because of zero-tolerance policies.

That's your departments "zero tolerance" policies. It's not the law. If "zero tolerance" was applied to LEOs, there would be few left on the streets.

[thefactor]

Wow. Nice dig at police officers.

[wintertime]

Bureaucrats and Cops. Profiles in stupidity. Yes, stupidity, even the cops could’ve exercised some common sense. But that’s wishful thinking today.
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The police should have arrested the principal and teacher for child abuse. I am being **completely** serious!

To arrest a child for a Nerf ball gun, haul him down to the police station, and go through the process of pressing charges, would be **terrifying** to a child.

If criminal charges of child abuse against the principal and teacher , plus a civil suit going after **everything** they **PERSONALLY** own, , we would soon see an end to this particular insanity. ( Of course the Marxist running our abusive collectivist schools would soon come up with other abusive practices.)

The above is what I would do as a parent!

And...The police should quietly take the principal and teacher aside and warn them that if they proceed, that they, **the principal and teacher** WILL WILL WILL be arrested for emotional child abuse that the police are witnessing right before their eyes.

[Ricochet11]

My teenage son was kicked out of school (”excluded”) and required to get a psych eval when one student alleged he made machine gun noises during a class. He was never asked about this (he denies even doing this) - no appeal, no hearing. When I refused to comply and challenged their request based on violating his due process rights, ignoring their own student handbook and Massachusetts General Law - they responded with a 4-day suspension - again, no dates, no specifics just ‘threat of violence against a peer’ - and no appeal dates with the superintendent. This has gone on for 2 weeks now - with my son returning to school today. We hired the psychologist, got the eval to back us up - and are preparing the fight over his school record. I have found it amazing how much UNCHECKED power these hacks wield - I have even considered joining the ACLU if they would help me in my quest (desperate!). I feel for this boy’s parents - and all the other kids out there growing up in this. It needs change!!

[wintertime]

Please read post #78.

By the way,...There are collectivist schools that are sooooo toxic that it would be better for a child to NEVER attend. I serious mean it. No education whatsoever would be better than being in the school's environment.

Your son's school is one of them.

Surely, anything you would do on your own would be better than what he is getting in that school. Who could possibly learn anything in such a corrosive environment of fear?