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?
Kyle needs to “lawyer up” and bring some heat down on those ***holes.
BSCO Israel has been anti-2damendment and anti-gun for years. He needs to be taken out and buried in the anti-gun heap of history.
This is totally unacceptable.....gestapo tactics on a minor who engaged with his father in a legal activity. The same scumbags who ignored, and enabled Cruz....really. The same scumbag cowards who cowered behind cover outside while a deranged maniac murdered students!!!! BSO can gth.....
You mean Broward County. There is a Brevard County in Florida too but Sheriff Israel is in Broward.
It is interesting times that we are living in.
Very, very interesting.
From what Kyle said, they detained him unlawfully. And if so, “interrogated” is the right word. Kyle should look into suing. Hopefully, some legal support will pour his way for that after the publicity.
[I’m not a lawyer, but I have had the duty of learning thoroughly about that issue before.]
I guess scaredy cop wasn’t there, he quit right?
That would have been the perfect time to remind him that what happened was due to the failure of Scot Peterson to do his job and the failure of BSD to do anything after numerous visits to the shooter's house.
How 'bout takin' somma that massive influx of dues to the NRA and get one of their retained lawyers motivated that way?
Seems like a good use. d:^)
They have home and away jerseys.
Obama’s Yellow Shirts. 
I guess she wasn’t talking about the ones who facilitated the massacre by their incompetence and dereliction of duty.....
......I’m looking at YOU FBI and BSO. And you, too, Broward School Board members.
My wife keeps wondering what’s in all the boxes I keep bringing home from the Post Office.
Does that also apply to government employees who are performing public duties? Normally courts find an exception for that.
Shocking and scary to me too Kyle...
kudos to you for not surrendering to the groupthink & their nazi brownshirt enforcers...👍
This was an arrest. Courts have ruled that custody plus questioning equals arrest. He can and should sue for false arrest.
Lawsuit, huge! Go for it, I sure would. And if my son had been treated that way without me being notified, I would be furious.
His dad needs to be putting a foot up someone’s ass so far, and apology letter pops out their mouth. This was nonsense. Those thugs should not be working with high schoolers.
If we gun owners cannot finance a lawsuit about this, we might as well quit and disband.
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