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WCSC reported that a South Carolina High School student was arrested and suspended after writing about killing a dinosaur using a gun in a class assignment. Attorney David Aylor, who is representing 16-year-old Alex Stone, said his client's arrest over a creative writing assignment was "completely absurd," and is seeking to appeal the suspension. "Students were asked to write about themselves and a creative Facebook status update – just days into the new school year – and my client was arrested and suspended after a school assignment."
Stone said he and his classmates were told in class to write a few sentences about themselves, and a "status" as if it was a Facebook page. Stone said in his "status" he wrote a fictional story that involved the words "gun" and "take care of business."
"I killed my neighbor's pet dinosaur, and, then, in the next status I said I bought the gun to take care of the business"
“I could understand if they made him rewrite it because he did have ‘gun’ in it. But a pet dinosaur?” said his mother Karen Gray. “I mean first of all, we don’t have dinosaurs anymore. Second of all, he’s not even old enough to buy a gun.”
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by TheGratefulNet on Friday August 29 2014, @02:12PM
'you can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride'.
you can't fight cops. they always will have the upper hand. fighting with them is futile.
what you CAN and SHOULD do is avoid giving them more room to fuck with you and take the fight to court where you DO have a chance to win. slim, but at least its in semi public view and you can't get broken bones while defending your position in court.
now, you need money to go to court and that's the failure of our system. if you can afford it, you have a chance to teach the bad cop a lesson; but you have to have quite a bit of money saved up to afford lawyer fees.
if there was a paypal fund, i'd donate to this kid's cause. this shit pisses me off. cops are now the bad guys in our society and that's such a damned shame ;( if I encounter a random 'scary guy' in the street, I don't worry so much. otoh, if I see a cop, I do worry; they have the ability to cause great harm to any of us and they so often do, these days, it seems.
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 2) by strattitarius on Friday August 29 2014, @02:38PM
cops are now the bad guys in our society and that's such a damned shame ;( if I encounter a random 'scary guy' in the street, I don't worry so much. otoh, if I see a cop, I do worry; they have the ability to cause great harm to any of us and they so often do, these days, it seems.
See that bad guy has something to lose. If he mugs you, he might be shot, stabbed, or beat up. It's at least a possibility. He also might get caught and go to jail.
While cops do have to worry about being shot, stabbed, or beat up, they do not have to worry about going to jail. So, if they take the time to determine you are not a lethal threat, they know they no longer have anything to fear from that encounter. This is what we must change. There should be a disorderly conduct for LEO, and it should be a criminal record and not just a suspension and not just documented in his employment file.
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