12-year-old boy with autism arrested for imaginary rifle at Texas school
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http://kutv.com/news/nation-world/12-year-old-autistic-boy-arrested-for-brandishing-imaginary-rifle-at-texas-school
A 12-year-old autistic boy was placed in a Juvenile Detention Center on Monday after brandishing an imaginary rifle at his art teacher, FOX 26 reports. The 5th grade teacher reportedly felt threatened by the child, identified as David Sims, who was arrested by a school police officer. "She (the officer) just put handcuffs on me and told me I need to go with her," Sims said. "They just said, 'We don't tolerate that. We take it as a threat,'" said Amy Sims, the boy's mother. "A threat? He didn't threaten anyone. He didn't do anything but play."
I had to snip some of the title because it wouldn't fit.
Even the idea gets in trouble
Never underestimate the power of autism.
not nearly as dumb as "arrested for eating a sandwich into what was perceived as the shape of a gun" but I can feel some sympathy for teachers feeling a bit threatened when a student basically does a "shooting at you with a rifle" action. It's obviously not a physical gun in the moment but fuck if it isn't easily the kid threatening that they want to do that shit for real, and you're on their list
in this case though just send him to the councilor for a better assessment, talk to the parents. Immediately calling the cops and getting them thrown in juvie is the opposite of solving the problem
Why did they have to point out "autism" in the article?
It's not like autism is gonna speak for itself.
The poor kid's challenged and abused. Not a good combo.
What kind of weak-spined, pussy-ass teacher feels threatened by an autistic kid holding up an imaginary rifle and blowing raspberries
2019: "student arrested for mentioning the word "gun""
In defense of this retardation, I just wish to point out that we also all go "How the fuck is literally nothing being done to prevent this sort of stuff?" every time a school shooting happens. With the current climate and trends in America, it's kind of understandable to be on-edge to the point of it being slightly ridiculous about things you might perceive as threats from students. "Oh he's just an autistic kid doing autistic things 'cause he doesn't know any better and this shouldn't be acted on" is hardly an excuse either, given that some school shooters in the past have been somewhere on the spectrum.
This particular case is, as mentioned above, retarded. However, not acting on things like this and then wondering why nothing stopped nobody when the next shooting happens is also retarded.
Well you wouldn't want anyone getting imaginarily killed.
It adds insult to injury.
tbh i'd be terrified to be a teacher in this day and age, and someone pulling an epic prank of pretending to shoot you dead would definitely be a huge red flag. that's just the sorry state of the situation society is in right now. pretending to shoot your teacher very clearly crosses the line of "kids will be kids!!!"
In kindergarten we played a class finger gun game with the teacher.
Stop being a baby. If you think the kid made an empty threat get a counselor to help, not a cop.
If he had a gun he could have defended himself
lmao what year were you in kindergarten? i wonder what the school shooting statistics were back then huh
1998. I wonder what the expulsion statistics for being a kid were back then huh
Oh come on, those aren't comparable.
Kindergarten =/= 5th grade, and the tone of the situation actually does matter.
Yeah, the whole situation brings to mind that image of the Columbine shooters from shortly before the shooting, where they're at an assembly and they're in the upper right hand corner pointing finger guns at the cameraman. Not that the kid was undoubtedly going to shoot up the school the next day, but I could see how it could very easily be construed as threatening, especially these days.
But yeah cops shouldn't have been involved. I can see why they would react that way, but still, that's massive overkill.
Also gotta remember that it wasn't regular 'cops', it was school police. Not like the teacher called 911 for a fingergun, they contacted an appropriate institution. Whether it was the best solution is up to debate, but it wasn't as bad as people seem to make it out to be.
Also what the fuck even is America, when you need school police?
a hot mess
Ain't even a cry for help; it's just playing around.
Not really appropriate to play that way with a teacher, but the kid has autisim after all.
Gotta love Texas
GOP's plan to stop school shootings
Gun Control
Blame Video Games
Arrest kids for imaginary guns
Adam Lanza was also autistic. Not to say autistic children are more dangerous or anything, just that being autistic should not be an excuse to dismiss behaviour in these directions.
But nobody is saying this behavior should have been dismissed.
I read it as such pre-edit, sorry.
This kind of abuse should be shunned no matter kid's mental health
I feel like attributing this kind of response to the GOP isn't exactly accurate.
I totally get where you're coming from, but people go 'how the fuck has nothing been done to prevent this' at stuff like teenagers with rampant history of police calls and threatening to murder their classmates not being seriously followed up on or treated seriously. Treating an autistic kid making hand gestures as a potential school shooter is overboard.
Shame on the teacher for not pulling an imaginary six-shooter to defend themselves with.
No, really - this is fuckin Texas, a state many people connect with guns and western fantasy. It's beyond absurd that kids aren't allowed to damn near even think about guns.
This solves nothing.
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