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12-year-old Sikh boy arrested in US after classmate accuses him of carrying a bomb
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Why did it take 3 days to figure out he didn't have a bomb?
I mean at least in the other case the kid had a clock that could scare ignorant people. And even he wasn't locked up for 3 days.
Is this story accurate? Just an accusation from a classmate, then a 12 year old is locked up for 3 days? If this story is true it seems insane to me.
I mean at least in the other case the kid had a clock that could scare ignorant people. And even he wasn't locked up for 3 days.
Is this story accurate? Just an accusation from a classmate, then a 12 year old is locked up for 3 days? If this story is true it seems insane to me.
Rebel Leader
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They should torture him and kill his family nonetheless, just to not appear as weak as Obama. A neurosurgeon recently told me that it would be normal if the kid would not understand it at first. But sometimes you have to open the head to remove a tumor.
BreezyLimbo
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Yeah. I was about to comment how stupid it was that another Sikh got targeted, and then read the boy is making jokes like that...this not the climate to be doing that. He shpuldnt have been arrested, but joking about bombs..
Could you say this would have happened if he was white? Everyone would have just ignored it.
It's a fucking 12 year old. Doesn't take rocket science to tell whether or not they are being serious. All it takes is pulling them aside for a moment and having a small talk, not arresting them.
Miles Quaritch
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Free speech tho?
"God's Beard!"
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lol
BreezyLimbo
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Cant yell fire in movie theatre etc.
Joking about having a bomb at school is pretty stupid to do. Schools have been zero-tolerance on this stuff since Columbine.
Linkstrikesback
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Eh, bomb threats are serious and certainly worth investigating, for every ones safety in general, even if a child reports it.
However the bully who did so is the one who should have ended up with the police, it's a serious accusation and should have consequences for making up false stories.
Some of ya'll are too young to remember but this kind of paranoia was prevalent after Columbine too. If you made a joke about shooting up some jocks you were in for a bad, bad time.
Still, inexcusable behavior from the authorities. I mean 3 days without contacting his parents?
strikeselect
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Not incendiary enough.
It was edited, when I read it didn't have the 2nd part. Even the boy joking about having a bomb doesn't warrant what happened.
Yeah, you shouldn't joke about it, but what is more likely:
(1) A 12-year-old boy being a 12-year-old boy.
(2) For the first time in US history, a 12-year-old boy brings a bomb to school and another 12-year-old boy conveniently discovers it.
I'm glad that link was added to the OP post, because it wasn't there at first.
Well if he admitted to making a joke about having a bomb, I can at least understand why he was charged.
You can't joke about something like that.
You shouldn't joke about it, but all it takes is common sense to handle the situation given that it's a 12 year old. All that was necessary was to pull him aside to have a talk and maybe call his parents.
Skellig Gra
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No they aren't but that didn't stop these guys.
Iorv3th
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The kid said he had a bomb in his backpack. The 'bully' was just another kid turning him in for saying that. Even if it was a 'joke' you don't joke about that shit at school.
Gentleman Jack
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You also don't throw a kid in juvie for 3 days and not tell his family where he is over a joke.
Hi i'm Caleb
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Damn and he looks like he's from the Middle East?!? Shit he was basically asking for it am I right!
ebullientprism
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In U.S, that 2nd scenario is actually quite possible. It don't take a genius to create a bomb, though it would of been more likely to have been a gun than a bomb.
The handling of this was poorly done, it should of been more discrete and the parents should of been alerted to it immediately. Other than that, bomb or gun threats are taken very seriously in schools.
EDIT:
I love how people, say "he is a kid" as if there never been a "kid" shooting others before or that him being "a kid' makes him less dangerous. The only thing that makes it unlikely, is that he said it was a bomb.
thelatestmodel
Junior, please.
I do agree - to a point. I agree that bomb threats are serious and must be investigated.
However, in this case they could have just sat both kids down and given them a stern talking to. As usual, the US takes things way, way too far.
CadetMahoney
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the kid who "notified the authorities" on him:
jr.
Fenderputty
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This isn't meant to excuse the police for locking the kid up for three days, nor the bully for intentionally escalating the situation beyond jokes but
Mentioning that you have a bomb is probably not the brightest idea.
Mentioning that you have a bomb is probably not the brightest idea.
RustyNails
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What if he was saying The Force Awakens was gonna be a bomba?
This , this , this..... How the fuck are people conveniently ignoring this point. Do they seriously believe Race has nothing to do with it? And that this would have happened to any other kid. Thats BS , the most you would have got is a slap on the wrist and you parents would have been contacted immediately.
And the bully is probably being celebrated as some sort of hero in the school , heck I wouldn't be surprised if bully would have been thrown in jail for 3days had he also been brown.
I dunno dude. Sporting the beard at 12 makes you look kind of suspicious.
Police say yes, family say no. I wanna see the receipts.
yup people are just ignorant and dont know sikhs are not Muslims, and even if the kid was doesnt mean he is a terrorist.
Then I change my opinion and side with the people who say he deserved it and was lucky to got off with so light of a punishment.
gutter_trash
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principles and teachers who can't tell which kid is a bully should not be teachers or principles.
The bully should be the one to get arrested for crying wolf
The bully should be the one to get arrested for crying wolf
Outrage at 12-year-old Sikh boy released from jail after only serving 3 days.
Jag
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The article also states other kids were joking about bombs. You know, how kids like to one up each other. Why did only the brown kid go to jail?
Clockwork
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I guess context is important. We don't really know the discussion that took place. It could have been a simple retort to the bully's attacks.
I picture something like this...
Bully: Hey terrorist! Hey Muslim!
Boy: Leave me alone!
Bully: What are you going to do about it? Shoot me? Blow me up?
Boy: Yeah, I have a bomb in my backpack with your name written all over it. (sarcasm)
Obviously the above is just pointless conjecture but I can see how something might be said without him really thinking things through or the consequences/reaction it might garner.
I picture something like this...
Bully: Hey terrorist! Hey Muslim!
Boy: Leave me alone!
Bully: What are you going to do about it? Shoot me? Blow me up?
Boy: Yeah, I have a bomb in my backpack with your name written all over it. (sarcasm)
Obviously the above is just pointless conjecture but I can see how something might be said without him really thinking things through or the consequences/reaction it might garner.
He said he was joking with his friends, someone overheard it, supposedly a 'bully' who probably didn't like him and told the principal. Because he's a brown Sikh, principal calls police who arrest him and keep him in juvenile hall without even notifying the parents.
It's funny, I'm watching CNN right now. That affluenza white kid who killed 4 people after drunk driving and paralyzing 2 more, got off with probation, he and his mom fled after he was found to be playing beer pong, but 12 year old and elementary school kids who are brown are thrown in jail and suspected of being terrorists, zero tolerance for them.
Having been in a bully situation myself at that age, I can say that even I have said things like this. I would say anything just to avoid getting beaten up, etc.
If the kid did say he had a bomb, the school had to react, but what happened after is ridiculous. No way in my mind had my white 12 year old nephew joked he had a bomb would he had been taken away for 3 days and his parents having no idea where he was taken. Probably would have been suspended though.
appaws
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I can't believe these dumbass so-called adults handled it this way.
It sounds to me like both kids just needed a call home to parents and maybe detention.
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