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?
I guess Kyle is going to be harassed.
The far left is so crazy they will intimidate you for having a gun.
Sick, sick times.
What I would love to see is this young man invited to the White House. I would also love to see Commissar Sherriff Israel and his deputies visited by a team of FBI agents (as opposed to the many Obama era FIB agents that seem to still persist). I would also like to see a Federal audit of both the finances and actions/operations of this creep and his department.
You lean on a kid who disagrees with your very fascist ideas? OK. Expect similar push back!
Bet he’s already had a half dozen lawyers call him.
He needs to go back tonight with his dad after school and post more pics.
"I do not answer questions from law enforcement or agents of the state without the presence of my attorney". Repeat every time a question is asked... even if they ask for the time of day.
Not sure what a low grade felony is, but I am on the understanding it is legal to record without permission, but cold you direct me whee you got your view please?
I wouldn’t take this too lightly if I were he, or his parent. This interaction with law enforcement, and the report associated with it will likely follow him. He should not be surprised if he is unable to purchase a firearm in the future due to being flagged as high risk.
I wonder if they hang out around abortion clinics and interrogates the girls exercising their (supposed) constitutional rights... /s
I mean secretly, if that is not illegal where he is.
Someone needs to offer this young man a full-ride scholarship. Would be money well-spent.
He has been invited twice!
They treated him quite well.
There’s part of an enormous lobby for gun control. It’s not only chiefs and not only municipal interests. Don’t ever support the Article V effort. It will be the end of your constitutional rights. The municipal and other local and state government lobby organizations do have much influence over choices of candidates for state legislatures. Only very coordinated and strong common voter efforts can make a difference and have as much influence.
The point is, if you’re working in the private sector and not connected to government, it’s extremely important that you vote in midterm elections like the election this year. It’s the only way you can hang on to or even advance your constitutional rights (also known as civil or human rights). There are over 40 million people working for the various levels of government or otherwise deriving their incomes from government in this country.
Vote! Write to your state and federal legislators! Join the NRA and your state Second Amendment lobby organizations.
He was harassed & interrogated for exercising his Constitutional rights. That violates federal civil rights laws.
Every kid needs a body cam. Every kid. Every class. Everything should be recorded as soon as they leave in the morning until they return at the end of the day.
Kashuv should have had his attorney present before being grilled by gestapo.
While I wouldn’t endorse Session copying the racist tactics of Lynch and Holder, the DOJ should be up Sheriff Israel’s and the police departments asses.
Cowered in fear while kids were being killed on Valentine's day.
Now here they are picking on a High School kid for nothing more than being an American.
F them.
The correct response would have been: “Go **** yourselves.”
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Police chiefs implore Congress not to pass concealed-carry reciprocity gun law
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3649598/posts
That needs to change. Everything everywhere, practically speaking, is recorded. Why would public schools, financed by taxpayer money be any different? The taxpayers deserve a choice where their money goes as well.
No longer should parents and taxpayers be held essentially hostage by neurotic cranks and quack “educators”.
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