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Controversy Over Suspension Of 2 Easton High Lacrosse Players
CBS Baltimore ^ | May 10, 2011 | CBS

Posted on 05/11/2011 7:45:52 AM PDT by Neverforget01

EASTON, Md. (WJZ)— Outrage is growing after two high school students are suspended– one taken away in handcuffs– over items found in their lacrosse equipment bags. Those items are banned from school property.

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“A police officer came and took him away in handcuffs and they said ‘Give us 40 minutes, we have to process him,’ Laura Dennis said. “So they did mug shots and they fingerprinted. I was able to pick him up from the police department 45 minutes later.”

(Excerpt) Read more at baltimore.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: absurd; lacrosse; regulations
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This is nuts!
1 posted on 05/11/2011 7:45:55 AM PDT by Neverforget01
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Laura Dennis’ son Graham had a pen knife and a Leatherman that school authorities found while they searched a team bus before it headed to a game. He now faces jail time and damage to his permanent record.
2 posted on 05/11/2011 7:47:54 AM PDT by Neverforget01 (It Could Have Been Worse Is Not A Defense For Bad Policy)
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So? What did they find in their equipment bags?


3 posted on 05/11/2011 7:48:28 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I'm a Birther - And a Deather)
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To: Neverforget01

So... what did they find in their bags?


4 posted on 05/11/2011 7:48:35 AM PDT by Hatteras
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A lighter, pen knife and leatherman. Geez.


5 posted on 05/11/2011 7:48:42 AM PDT by doodad
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I’ll just jump to a conclusion that these are probably white boys.....wonder if they ever check the basketball bus?....of course not...


6 posted on 05/11/2011 7:50:57 AM PDT by cherry
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A lighter, pen knife and leatherman. Geez

Anybody who's ever had a lacrosse stick knows that those are essential tools for string repair.

If there isn't more to this story (which, it being one of those types of stories, there could be), then some of these "administrators" need to be slapped down very, very hard.

7 posted on 05/11/2011 7:51:40 AM PDT by r9etb
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my solution.....everybody in the school start carrying a leatherman like tool (maker of leatherman apparently a closet leftist) or a pen knife.....I’d like to see the school do this to all the kids...fools and idiots...


8 posted on 05/11/2011 7:53:07 AM PDT by cherry
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As if Baltimore cops didn’t have bigger problems than pen knives in lacrosse players’ bags.


9 posted on 05/11/2011 7:53:27 AM PDT by Neverforget01 (It Could Have Been Worse Is Not A Defense For Bad Policy)
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This is beyond stupid. There is no indication that the boys did anything with the tools then to simply possess them with their equipment.


10 posted on 05/11/2011 7:54:03 AM PDT by momtothree
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Nuts as it is yet this is the kind of stuff that shows people what happens when you put nanny-state liberal Democrats in charge of school districts.


11 posted on 05/11/2011 7:54:57 AM PDT by lesko
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Pen knife and lighter vs lacross stick.

Idiots...

Next they will arrest the baseball team for having Bats...


12 posted on 05/11/2011 7:57:32 AM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '12)
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Bureaucrats and other petty tyrants love to hide behind their anonymity. The parents need to figure out the names of everyone involved in this decision and start handing out fliers and marching with protest signs where the NAMES of those people figure prominently. Seriously. It works.


13 posted on 05/11/2011 7:57:41 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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Yeah my daughter, a figure skater, had a screwdriver in her skate bag for her skates. Wonder what those kooks would have thought about that. Looney Tunes.

My friend used a lighter to melt her mascara before putting it on. Wonder if she should have been arrested.


14 posted on 05/11/2011 7:59:03 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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They ought to be fired and have their pensions ripped right out of their greedy little hands, and then, sued individually!


15 posted on 05/11/2011 7:59:43 AM PDT by A. Morgan
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Uh, you go ahead and search the basketball bus...


16 posted on 05/11/2011 7:59:50 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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america has so quickly become a police state at so many levels. Historically, I don’t know any precedents which had things getting better without getting much much worse first once a republic reaches this state.


17 posted on 05/11/2011 8:00:41 AM PDT by WoofDog123
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I had to break out the smelling salts just reading that.

Lucky they didn’t find a BB, they would have them for attempted murder.


18 posted on 05/11/2011 8:02:35 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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exactly right. They love their anonymity. they love to hide and so avoid blame. Name the b@st@rds.


19 posted on 05/11/2011 8:04:48 AM PDT by squarebarb
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The basic problem is that the parents of these kids didn't do enough research to understand that they should never had their kids in public school in the first place.

Public school is child abuse.

Zero tolerance public school administrators are simply Pharaohs in their own personal taxpayer funded fiefdoms.

20 posted on 05/11/2011 8:08:13 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Sarah and the Conservatives will rock your world.)
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