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12-Year-Old Girl Arrested & Handcuffed For Making a 'Finger Gun' At School
MRCtv ^ | October 10, 2019 | Brittany M. Hughes

Posted on 10/10/2019 9:26:52 AM PDT by Maceman

A 12-year-old Kansas girl was arrested – as in, hauled out of school in handcuffs, charged with a crime, and was handed a court date – for making a “finger gun” and pointing it at fellow students.

According to the Kansas City Star, police in Overland Park “hauled her out of school in handcuffs, arrested her and charged the child with a felony for threatening” after the middle-schooler pointed the “finger gun” at other students before pointing it at herself.

Johnson County District Court documents obtained by the Kansas City Star claim the child “unlawfully and feloniously communicated a threat to commit violence, with the intent to place another, in fear, or with the intent to cause the evacuation, lock down or disruption in regular, ongoing activities.”

According to the news outlet, the whole thing started when a fellow student asked the girl “if she could kill five people in the class, who would they be?” The girl then allegedly pointed her fingers in the shape of a gun at several other students in the class. The teacher sent her to the principal’s office, where the school resource officer recommended she be arrested.

She was eventually turned over to her mother and hearing in the Juvenile Division of the District Court of Johnson County is scheduled for Tuesday. The child’s family was reportedly told that if convicted of a felony, she could face up to a year in a juvenile detention center.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; culturewars; education; feminism; kansas; misogamy; nationofcowards; policestate; teachers
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To: Maceman

Good thing I’m not in her school. I used to make pretend grenades with my fist and rocket launchers with my arm!


21 posted on 10/10/2019 9:38:15 AM PDT by MNDude
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To: TomServo

“Nowadays they’d be arresting kids for playing ‘Cowboys and Indians’.”

We used to play cowboys and Indians but we never went around in class pointing out who we wanted to kill!


22 posted on 10/10/2019 9:38:21 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: Maceman

Back in the day anything this overdone would have resulted in every kid doing the finger gun the next day.


23 posted on 10/10/2019 9:38:38 AM PDT by TalBlack (Damn right I'll "do something" you fat, balding son of a bitc)
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To: pepsi_junkie

I feel bad for kids today. They don’t have nearly the amount of fun us kids of the 80’s had.


24 posted on 10/10/2019 9:39:25 AM PDT by hillarys cankles
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To: hillarys cankles

“...smear the queer....”

We called it “bombardment”
Too militaristic now.

Marko


25 posted on 10/10/2019 9:39:58 AM PDT by markoman (Cautiously pessimistic.)
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To: Seruzawa

She must be a white child. We know that inner city schools bend over backwards to keep students from being arrested for criminal activities. There’s no common sense left in today’s public schools. The liberal takeover of the school system removed all common sense and decency from the system.


26 posted on 10/10/2019 9:40:26 AM PDT by Rdct29 (Democrats are the new Nazi's. They think they deserve total control over the people)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Why do they arrest law-abiding children rather than criminals?

Because they want to go home safely after shift < /s>... and criminals may make that problematic ...

27 posted on 10/10/2019 9:40:50 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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To: Maceman

https://nypost.com/2019/10/10/kansas-girl-hauled-out-of-school-in-handcuffs-for-making-finger-gun-with-her-hands/

“Her grandfather, Jon Cavanaugh, insisted the girl did not have access to real guns and “was just mouthing off.”

“I think that this is something that probably could have been handled in the principal’s office and got completely out of hand,” he told the Star. “I’m really worried about my granddaughter’s future.”


28 posted on 10/10/2019 9:41:30 AM PDT by RummyChick ("Pills, money .. this city is wicked. Your best friend will kill you here." Smoove about Baltimore)
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To: Maceman

Mindless, brainless...ridiculous. Yet, they still go around putting on airs of a severely snobbish “maturity”.


29 posted on 10/10/2019 9:42:45 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: TexasGator
We used to play cowboys and Indians but we never went around in class pointing out who we wanted to kill!

Nah - we'd just go punch 'em and let the chips fall where they may.

30 posted on 10/10/2019 9:43:50 AM PDT by TomServo
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To: Bob434
Phew- another dangerous criminal off the streets- thank goodness for the bravery of the authorities who no doubt charged right in, no concerns for their own safety, to call the cops on this young delinquent- Just imagine if she had flashed an ‘assault finger’


31 posted on 10/10/2019 9:44:24 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (With every passing day, I am a little bit gladder that Romney lost in 2012.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

In the second grade, that was pretty much the only game we played at recess.


32 posted on 10/10/2019 9:44:42 AM PDT by Romulus
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To: markoman
“...smear the queer....”

LOL! I remember that one. Remember 'Dodge Ball' and 'Kick Ball' as well...not like swinging a basketball at someones head...loads of fun..

33 posted on 10/10/2019 9:45:37 AM PDT by TomServo
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To: hillarys cankles
Fun is a form of privilege and can be considered a microaggression against people who are victimized by society. Having fun is one sign that you are the problem, along with everything else you do. Recognizing the role your fun plays in others misfortune is the first step towards doing the right thing by withdrawing from society and only emerging to cast a vote for democrats who will fix all of our problems now that you've been taken off the board.

Then you have the joy of knowing you helped make it all possible. Of course, your joy is a form of privilege that can be considered a microagression against.... blah blah blah.

34 posted on 10/10/2019 9:46:59 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: Maceman

There is something deep and serious in this story. That the normal is found as bad as the abnormal by those in charge and no distinctions are made on handling it should cause alarm.

Being angry at other kids and play shooting them is not abnormal. The way to handle it is to find out why and help the child to handle it better and the target kids to stop any bullying or teasing that may be happening.

What is abnormal is the child would also kill herself. This is abnormal and should set off alarms.

What is most abnormal is the way the authorities handled it. They ignored the deeper problem and made everything worse by arrest.

Home school with other home school families. It is healthier. Keep kids away from video games and most TV and movies. Take the kids to a traditional religious place of worship of our merciful God....


35 posted on 10/10/2019 9:47:36 AM PDT by amihow
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To: Maceman
It's ironic or perhaps synergistic that China just banned This.

Nothing exposes a bad law like the enforcement of it.

36 posted on 10/10/2019 9:48:18 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“My friends and I decades ago played World War II games , in which we had teams of Japs and Gerries. Holy moly, we would all be arrested nowadays for that.”

Depending on the neighborhood, you would would not be arrested, you would be shot!


37 posted on 10/10/2019 9:48:33 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie (‘When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.’)
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To: hillarys cankles

In my old neighborhood we played smear the queer hundreds of times. Lots of fun.

We usually played if we didn’t have enough kids to play football or we had an odd number of players.


38 posted on 10/10/2019 9:49:05 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Maceman
They didn't need to use the full size cuffs, these would have worked:


39 posted on 10/10/2019 9:49:22 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Maceman
12-Year-Old Girl Arrested & Handcuffed For Making a 'Finger Gun' At School

Did they play it safe and use SWAT and armored vehicles?

40 posted on 10/10/2019 9:50:28 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America NEEDS Mob Rule, another European and Mid East World War and a universal Draft)
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