Posted on 08/30/2019 1:14:41 PM PDT by Red Badger
A 16-year-old student at a Colorado high school was informed by the school district Wednesday that he was not allowed to return to classes until the school could conduct an investigation into an anonymous tip that he had posted "threatening" content online. Current Time 0:11 Duration 0:51 Trump Slams 'Totally Fake' Washington Post Report That He Floated Pardons For Border Wall Construction
In a story that has gained national attention from conservative sites, including RedState, the parents of a junior at Loveland High School learned Wednesday that their son could not appear on campus until the Thompson Valley School District (TVSD) conducted a full investigation into a "Safe-2-Tell" anonymous tip prompted by a Snapchat post by their teen son.
As reported by Complete Colorado, 16-year-old Nathan Myers and his mother Justine Myers went to a shooting range on Tuesday, a moment that Nathan celebrated by posting a video on Snapchat showing some of the guns they were going to bring, including hand guns and an AR-15. The caption for the post read, "Finna be lit," which he explained to Complete Colorado is just slang used among his peers meaning he's "excited" about the chance to go to the range with his mom, who he hadn't seen in a few weeks due to his parents being separated.
"While we were at her house getting ready to go, I took a video of five or six pistols and an AR-15," Nathan told the outlet. "None of them were loaded, they were all in their cases."
"We had a great day," said Justine, a self-described gun enthusiast. "This is what we do. Nathan has been shooting many times with us. We are huge Second Amendment supporters."
Nathan also posted video of them at the range:
When they returned from shooting, Justine learned from messages left by Nathan's father that police officers had come to the house asking about his initial Snapchat post.
"His father told them he was out shooting with me, I am an avid shooter," Justine explained. "So, the officers said he wasn't in trouble and left."
Though the family thought the issue was settled, the next morning they were informed by the school district that Nathan could not return to classes.
"I called to ask why I couldn't go, and they said it was a safety concern because the student who reported it was scared I was going to shoot up the school," Nathan said.
The Myers say Nathan has never had any conflict with another student, enjoys a large circle of friends, and has no criminal record.
The Myers' "threat assessment hearing" with TVSD was scheduled for 10 a.m. Thursday.
Pro-Second Amendment site Rally for Our Rights' Lesley Hollywood reports that she spoke with Justine, "as well as two different attorneys who specialize in Second Amendment issues," and found that the school "is legally within their rights at this time."
"According to the attorneys, the school has a protocol that must be followed when a report of a threat comes in through Safe 2 Tell or other means, even if the report is completely false – and there is nothing parents or students can legally do about it, even with a lawyer," she reports.
Complete Colorado notes, however, that Colorado-based pro-Second Amendment organization Rocky Mountain Gun Owners "posted on Facebook that it would supply the family with legal representation if the student’s story 'bears out as first reported.'"
Complete Colorado reached out to Weld County Sheriff Steve Reams to get his reaction to the situation. After sending him the Snapchat post with no context, the outlet asked Reams for his interpretation of the post. He said he thought it just seemed like a kid excited to go to a firing range. When he learned about the school district's response, he expressed disbelief.
"This is exactly the mechanics of the Red Flag Law," Reams told the outlet. "Someone filed an anonymous complaint, without the other person knowing it was being filed, but instead of him being deprived of his Second Amendment rights, he’s being deprived of his ability to go to school without due process."
The teen simply "exercised his First Amendment right to use his Second Amendment right," said Reams, adding, "I hope this doesn’t make him fear that in the future."
Wonder if Colorado’s ‘red flag’ law will be applied to this family next year, when it goes into effect?
Tell your kids to just stay off social media. Just shut all accounts.
Boy I’d hate to be raising a kid right now - because there would be one unbreakable rule:
NO SOCIAL MEDIA OF ANY TYPE. DON’T POST THERE, DON’T GO THERE, DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT.
This totally worthless crap causes more problems and situations than anyone can imagine. Stick to your close friends and family, and talk to them.
Concur
Show what a “Red Flag” law can do to one reputation and life! RED FLAGS is can be weapon in the hands of evil too!
So what?! When it starts to hit the taxpayers in the pocket book they will start paying attention to who they are hiring to run their schools and FIRE their rear ends out of there.
They elected the school board members.
Perhaps they will pay closer attention next election if the lesson is painful enough.
The student and parents have already been damaged by the schools actions. Sue. They need to be brought to task for irrational behavior.
One thought is to start calling or logging on to the “safe 2 tell” and reporting the administrators, teachers, and other employees of the school district as being overheard making threats to injure or kill students. Use their own tactics against them. It is anonymous, after all. Make them realize what is being done to innocent people by having it done to them.
“The only problem is the taxpayers are the ones who have to pay...............”
I love the fact that this incident has been used to show what red flag laws do. Maybe, maybe, a few people with functioning neurons will figure out that Red Flag laws are the gateway to fascism.
The ‘panicked’ Blabbermouth was probably one of the teachers.
Maybe all this teacher’s two parent students have been under surveillance for a long time.
I have a difficult time sympathizing with people who criminally abuse their offspring by donating them to one of the government propaganda asylums...
lol
they may indeed be getting high but they aren’t learning :)
If someone reports a Red-Flag situation, that person should not be anonymous, they must give their name. Nathan was not thinking when he posted pictures in the Social Media...in this day and time?
Kids shouldn’t have cell phones.it will wreck their life.
If that had happened to me back in high school I would have celebrated the day playing hooky.
Me, I would have gone to the beach!................
Then I would have posted another photo. If it worked once . . .
https://www.facebook.com/justine.myers.54/timeline?lst=1353003026%3A1628723014%3A1567198543
Mom seems P.O.ed
There’s no higher learning going on in any public schools.
Why we entrust our children to be taught be these people, I don’t know.
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