SHOCK!!! ACLU SUES AGAINST KANSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL DETENTION FOR STUDENT "HANDS UP, DON'T SHOOT" PROTEST!!!
Here's the link and official word from the ACLU in their struggle for FREEDOM AGAINST KANSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL DETENTION in support of FREE SPEECH.
AND SO . . . DO YOU THINK THIS ACLU TEACHING MOMENT MIGHT BE GIVING THESE KANSAS CITY STUDENTS THE FALSE IMPRESSION THAT THERE AREN'T CONSEQUENCES . . . EVEN SLIGHT ONES . . . FOR ENGAGING IN CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED FREEDOM!!!
Or maybe using students as a political prop is part of the fun . . . Here's the statement, you decide:
ACLU Asks Court to Halt Punishment of Student who Participated in a Silent Protest
Today, the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri filed a civil rights lawsuit against the Kansas City School District, because the district violated a student’s First Amendment rights. The suit asks the court to stop punishing the student for participating in a protest.
When Governor Nixon began speaking during an assembly on Nov. 20 at Lincoln College Preparatory Academy, 14 students stood and held their hands up in a sign of surrender. They were immediately ushered out of the auditorium, sent home and threatened with a 10-day suspension. This punishment was changed to a Saturday School detention.
“This student was exercising her constitutional rights by expressing the message that she stood in solidarity with other protesters across Missouri and the country after the death of Michael Brown,” explains Tony Rothert, legal director of the ACLU of Missouri. “The school should be proud to have taught their students to be confident in their right to express themselves to the Governor.”
“School administrators cannot punish students for communications they think will bring negative attention to the school,” explained Sarah Rossi, the ACLU of Missouri’s director of advocacy and policy. “The First Amendment does not permit that.”
The ACLU of Missouri is a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization that defends and expands the constitutional rights and civil liberties of all Missourians guaranteed under the United States and Missouri Constitutions, through its litigation, legislative and public education programs. It is an affiliate of the national ACLU.
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Should have sent these kids for a ten day all expenses paid vacation to Chicago's roughest and most dangerous hoods and see how long they lasted getting in peoples faces with this hands up don't shoot routine.
ReplyDeleteKill them. For the Lord knows those that are His own.
ReplyDeleteI would assume that all students were given a copy, and or signed, a student code of conduct prior to the start of the school year.
ReplyDeleteIf the students violated the code of conduct, then the school should not be held at fault for enforcing their rules.
This is another example of troublemakers breaking the rules and not wanting to be held accountable for their actions. It is unfortunately a prevalent and growing childish attitude in society.
Can't punish the child no. He knows not what he does. Which in fact is true. He doesn't have a clue why or what for other than "everyone else" is doing it because it's on the internet.
ReplyDeleteAsk him - do you know how not to get your ass kicked by the police and you'll get the thousand mile stare. Further proof the web is turning kids complete idiots who couldn't find their way out of paper bag without the help of a phone and google.
They know.
ReplyDeleteA. Wyatt Mann: "Do you know how not to get your ass kicked by the police?"
KCPS student: "Be white, of course."
yup. pretty much. Be white.
ReplyDeleteDon't go into stores, steal swisher sweets, rough up the store owner when he ask you to pay then walk out and grab a police officer through his car window and you'll be fine.
ReplyDeleteJust what we need, the prototypical, Liberal Teacher/pedagogue haranguing children into Liberal "group think" to the point they think that a black, violent, thug, who tries to take a cop's gun after robbing a convenience store for drug supplies and roughing up the clerk is a hero worthy of civil disobedience.
ReplyDeleteThis, followed by lawyers from the ACLU agitating for their "Rights" should produce even more Liberal Jim Jones lemmings ready to drink the Kool Aid.
No introduction to Socratic methods, just vapid, inane repetition to the child prisoners of a corrupt and sclerotic School System that fails in any discernable way to provide anything that approaches what would be considered an education.
What a farce.
Looks like A. Wyatt Mann is home from "work."
DeleteShut up Chuck, they are making straight A's in "African American Studies".
ReplyDeleteThe ACLU is a fucking joke. Decades ago I wet up against the Federal Government and needed help from the ACLU. The ACLU not only refused, but told me I had no case. I am not even a lawyer, but handled the case myself and won on a constitutional premise that the ACLU claimed didn't exist in my situation. Fuck those ass clowns.
ReplyDeleteStudents do not have constitutional rights when it comes to this. Same premise that they don't have a right to privacy regarding school lockers.
ReplyDeleteWhen you are in school you are required to abide the the school rules. I'd like to see my kid try and protest one of my rules while living under my roof.
Name the last time the ACLU took a 2nd Amendment case? They only care about the 1st Amendment and even then are suspect when they do so. Rights come with responsibilities. You can express yourself, but to think there are never consequences is wrong. True civil disobedience comes with the understanding that you may be held accountable for your actions.
ReplyDeleteHadn't heard from the ACLU since they joined up with the Neo Confederates down in Memphis?
ReplyDeleteor 3:09 I guess you shouldn't get your drivers license when asked by the police. that got that man shot in carolina. i guess sarcasm is shitty from either side of the aisle.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.wjla.com/articles/2014/09/dashcam-video-shows-state-trooper-shooting-unarmed-man-107538.html
I'm sorry to say this to all the people bashing the kids I am absolutely proud of them. I wish I would have stood up with them. Also 8 out of the 12 were black. These children are not trouble makers the are 3.5 -4.0 gpa children.
ReplyDelete3:48 its not that simple. thanks to compulsory attendance some make legal argument contrary to you.
ReplyDeleteSad thing is these stupid kids are only hearing what their ignorant parents are saying at home and going to school acting like fools. If they understood the law and REALLY understood the FACTS then maybe they would be able to think on their own. Shit, I just re-read that. That would never happen. Disregard
ReplyDeleteYou are acting as if the children don't have minds of their own
DeleteLet me guess, "Black Ink Law" right Wyatt Earp?
ReplyDelete4:13
ReplyDeleteThere we have it, excellent parenting, have the kiddies get up and honor a violent, druggie street thug. Gee, I wonder why the inner city is so full of ignorance, stupidity and violence?
Actually I am one of the parents and I strongly stand behind my child. I do not care if he was or wasn't a thug he was a person that should not have died.
DeleteTiming of the incident was unconscionable. What about thinking to perform the action before or after program? The students deserved a detention according to rules. Our American value system is out of sync with those who want to support defiance to make a little money.
ReplyDeleteSo if one of these little scholars doesn't come home from school and is missing, who will their parents call? The police or the ACLU?
ReplyDelete7:00 + 1000!
ReplyDeleteas a liberal young man -- I once had a job issue I thought was discriminatory -
ReplyDelete-I called the ACLU -- they told me to go fuck myself -- and gave me the name of a local atty -- he charged me $50, and told me to go fuck myself.
I'm not so liberal these days.
You guys have such strong opinions yet you stay anonymous
ReplyDeleteThe ACLU is correct in arguing that these kids can indeed believe a lie if they want to.
ReplyDelete6:20
ReplyDeleteYou are an idiot, who would destroy your kid before he/she even has a chance in what is a hell of a tough world to get through as it is.
Pretending, in the face of the unambiguated evidence, that Michael Brown is worthy of honor in the black community is bad enough, when you are personally too lazy, stupid or willfully impercipient to face the truth.
But the stain of your narcissism and stupidity that marries you to a false narrative for personal edification brought on by a group identity that validates your sick twisted view of life, transferred onto a young malleable and vulnerable child, not to mention your own child you fucking scum, is unforgivable.
You are the cancer, that enables the metastasization of the pernicious narrative which condemns inner city youth to a life of blood simple, death grinding violence and stupidity.
You are beneath contempt.
Well done Chuck!!!!!
ReplyDelete8:22 what lie is being told???
ReplyDeleteThat person should have not committed a robbery. That person should have not assaulted a police officer.
ReplyDeleteThat person, who did assault the officer, should have not charged at the officer. That became a life and death decision for that officer. Life and death decisions are tough, bottom line the officer saved his life.
ACLU, got to be kidding me. Parents allowing that to happen are so out there in their thinking. How embarrassing
"Kathy" at 7:26 comment
ReplyDeleteWho are you complaining about?
I'm "John"
People are saying kill the kids or that they are stupid yet they don't wanna say it out loud
Delete6 months in a 905 still think people are taking to the streets for "mike brown". its morphed into so much more than mb now. why not debate on the larger topic than trying to belittle your opponents with tired arguments that are irrelevant now. this isnt about mike brown.
ReplyDelete10:56
ReplyDeleteThe President, Holder, Deblasio, Sharpton and the MSM etc etc etc have made it about Mikeal Brown and race every single fucking day for 4 months, your proclamation is a fart in the wind.