Overland Park, KS — A 12-year-old girl has recently found herself entangled within the police state after she made a poor, but innocent decision to shape her fingers like a gun and point them at students. Her case is now highlighting a serious problem within America’s educational system and the police state.
Last month, a classmate jokingly asked the 12-year-old girl if she could kill five people in the class, who would they be. The girl then reportedly shaped her fingers like a gun, pointed at four other students before pretending to shoot herself.
Yes, we understand that threatening to kill people is not okay. We also understand today’s climate of mass shootings and having to deal with potential threats to schools. Any time a child or adult alike threatens to harm others, this should be taken seriously. But is that really what happened with this 12-year-old girl? Her mother, Vanessa McCaron says although what her daughter did was dumb, the reaction from police and the school was over the top. She also says her daughter is a victim of bullying.
“I think that this is something that probably could have been handled in the principal’s office and got completely out of hand,” said Jon Cavanaugh, the girl’s grandfather in California, where the girl is now living. He said his granddaughter has no access to a real gun and she had no intent of harming anyone, according to the Kansas City Star. “She was just mouthing off,” he said.
Instead of realizing that the girl simply made a poor decision and disciplining her within the school, the police were called. She was then handcuffed, arrested, and booked into jail for felony threatening.
School resource officer Dana Harrison, who is an employee of the police department, handcuffed her outside the building and placed her in a police car before she was driven to a juvenile detention facility, the Kansas City Star reports. .........https://thefreethoughtproject.com/12yo-girl-bullied-arrested-pointing-finger-gun/
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