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?
Ooops. I lived in Brevard. Meant Broward :)
The king’s men don’t like it when the peasants get uppity.
“Kashuv was later pulled out of class and interrogated by two school resource officers, Broward County deputies”
Just a couple pissed off jealous losers whom saw Kyle’s hot Promo date.
SUE THE BASTARDS
The cowards of Broward have the courage to intimidate a non threatening teenager, but don’t have the stones to face a real threat.
“Don’t you know what happened here a few months ago?” , uh, yeh, I was here, where were you? By the way Hogg wasn’t there that day yet we have to listen to his Hogg-wash.
These are rank-and-file cops.
Still think they’re the good guys? Still think they won’t side with the Deep State?
Florida is a two party state, meaning Florida law says that both parties need to consent to recording of conversations.
But, there is a fair amount of First Amendment law saying you have the right to record conversations with government officials acting during their public duties.
https://www.jacksonvillecriminallawyerblog.com/2016/03/it_is_illegal_in_florida_to_au.html
The deputies might claim that their conversation was not public.
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Send a nice letter...
Make Him NRA member!
“Sign Ze Papers.”
Of they object you say, "if you have nothing to hide you should not be worried about it."
Then you say nothing except that you will not answer questions without one of your parents and a lawyer being present.
You have rights. Use them.
The time for being nice and giving the JBT's in all their manifestations the benefit of the doubt is over.
That is a good answer.
There is an easier alternative answer.
"I have nothing to say."
And absolutely stick with that. Say NOTHING, advise whomever / whatever is asking. EVEN IF THEY SAY THE QUESTIONING IS OVER.
A. It will positively un-nerve the interrogator.
B. If it goes to a legal phase the kid's attorney will absolutely rip the interrogator/school three or four new ones.
If you have a kid in school I would sit them down and have them practice with you for at least an hour, once a month.
No matter what the question is OR THE STATEMENT they make.
" I have nothing to say."
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The organized crime involving public officials has been happening even around some of the small cities for decades. Much of it involved local drug dealing, while police were forbidden from arresting special individuals. Some of those individuals have since been caught in other jurisdictions, though, and have developed long records in more recent years.
Sooner or later, they get to be too much trouble for their parents in local banking or whatever. I was a reserve for a short time in the past, mostly patrolling overnight on weekends by myself. The corruption was too much, and the area leadership too saturated with it. Became pretty disgusted and left the work behind despite offers from friends in other jurisdictions.
In my opinion, the best that we can do besides voting and being politically involved, is to continue promoting laws in favor of concealed carry and knowledge about security for as many competent, clean people as possible (clean meaning no drugs, not dangerously insane, no recent serious record). At least that way, even more of them will defend themselves against the local thugs. Sad that we need to do it that way, but too many youngsters over the past several generations were brought up wrong.
How about a zero tolerance approach to police misconduct. Start enforcing federal law =>
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18 U.S. Code § 242 - Deprivation of rights under color of law
Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or to different punishments, pains, or penalties, on account of such person being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than are prescribed for the punishment of citizens, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both;
and if bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both;
and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.
Our President has a lot on his mind, but when he heres about this, it won’t be tolerated, I wager!
Supreme Court has ruled that recording a government employee (especially law enforcement) performing their duty is not illegal.
Correction. Multiple Federal Appeals courts have ruled...
Cruz and Hogg in contact before the shooting? Source please, I have not heard or read about that.
The negligent sheriff and school super should be charged with 17 counts of manslaughter.
The police forces have been federalized also. Every time there is a hint of a civil rights problem, the political officer..I mean Police Chief will invite the Civil Rights division of the DOJ to do an audit. When it is finished, the police will be trained in how to work, and the Mayor and police will sign a Consent Decree, giving over policing power and oversight to the Feds when they want to take it.
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