Nothing like being tried as an adult for a "crime" white people, white kids, can do freely on the side of the road.
My partner got a ticket when they were 12 for riding a bike without a helmet. They were riding home from school. They had to go to a court, AT TWELVE, where the judge scolded them and gave them an official warning, but threw out the ticket.
It's no wonder they grew up to become an anarchist. This country and its use of police is obscene
Amerikkka is and always has been an apartheid police state.
My first time in court was at 7, for truancy, and they made my seven year old ass plead guilty. Didn’t explain to me why you go to school, didn’t ask why I wasn’t going, just told me if I didn’t go to school I’d be in contempt of court. And when I still didn’t go to school, they held me in fucking contempt of court lmao, and ordered my mom to go to school with me for a time.
Traumatizing a 10 year old kid is a great use of resources. I bet they try to claim it’s a teachable moment…
The fact that Beyond Scared Straight ran for nine seasons tells you everything you need to know about Americans' appetite for cruelty to children in the name of "teaching."
"Spare the rod, spoil the child." Is typically the justification of it, which itself rather ironically enough is an offshoot of a bible verse. Proverbs 13:24 to be exact. Which at that point you're at dealing with decades to centuries of deep rooting with this line of thought.
"as a result of this investigation, one of the officers involved is no longer employed, and the others will be disciplined."
I can not believe my eyes.
CW: Police Violence and Death
Remember that cop that t-boned a mother and her kid in his corvette while speeding and running a red light and drunk and also killed her child in the crash and then the mother is the one who actually got arrested? Wonder what a doozy of a book report they made him write!
Not really related to this specifically, but it's crazy in how many states that public urination is a felony or even misdemeanor.
In Canada it's mostly just breaking a bylaw if the town even bothered to write it.
Also what does Kobe Bryant have to do with public urination?
There are enough problems with how the education system treats people as is; why are judges allowed to assign children homework explicitly as a punishment? Firing one cop isn't enough, every single person involved in making that decision should have lost their jobs.
