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Old 09-22-2015, 09:49 AM  
Sly
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Originally Posted by crockett View Post
To actually call the cops on the kid and place him in handcuffs is ridiculous.. sure if he had tried to claim it was a bomb then sure treat him like that, but this was clear over reaction based on muslim phobia which runs amok in places like Texas and most western states..
Turns out, they brought him into the office for questioning and he refused to answer questions. Was very vague. This was before calling the police and after the police showed up with further questioning.

We had a few situations like this when I was in high school. I lived in a white city in the middle of nowhere. School size was about 1800 students. Those kids got arrested, too. White. One set down a backpack in a crowded area and was very evasive about it. This was shortly after Columbine. Others walked around school wearing long black trenchcoats, those trenchcoats got banned shortly thereafter.

These situations are only an overreaction until something very bad happens, then it's an underreaction and the lynch mob comes out asking why nobody notice anything funny.

I sided with the kid until more and more news came out.
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