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How America Outlawed Adolescence
One monday morning last fall, at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina, a 16-year-old girl refused to hand over her cellphone to her algebra teacher. After multiple requests, the teacher called an administrator, who eventually summoned a sheriff’s deputy who was stationed at the school. The deputy walked over to the girl’s desk. “Are you going to come with me,” he said, “or am I going to make you?”
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It's happening lower down the chain now, there was one instance where even a fricking kindergartener was picked up because they dared to make the hand signal of a gun. Who or what child has never played cops and robbers? When we were kids we had those toy guns that you cocked and shot and they made "gun-like" sounds and the whole neighborhood ran around with them on the school's playground because it was at the end of the road, I can't imagine what they would do today if they saw that.
There's no telling what cops will do when you're unarmed and under submission, let alone a kid playing.