Timothy Murray lost his father earlier this year and had been asking his principal for counseling when she called in the police

  • @CADmonkey@lemmy.world
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    1416 months ago

    Obviously the cops and prosecutors are real shitheads here, but I think some blame goes to a piece of shit principal who woukd call the police on an 11 year old.

    • @Perfide@reddthat.com
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      786 months ago

      The DA and Principal are likely related, same last name. I’d bet this isn’t the only incident between these two, with the principal setting up the targets and the DA knocking them down.

    • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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      186 months ago

      None of them should have any kind of power over others. If we ever manage to fix this system despite the dipshits that are trying to break it further, whether system comes next should have a specific focus on preventing people like this from getting power or keeping it if they manage to hide themselves until after they’ve gained power.

    • @Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      36 months ago

      And also the stupid law that allows charges against children. Our system of kids under 14 not being “strafmündig” (criminally responsible) is often criticized and has other issues sometimes but at least it prevents shit like this

  • Whiskeyomega
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    1216 months ago

    Chief Wiggum : No Jury in the World is going to convict a baby…Maybe Texas

  • @pete_the_cat@lemmy.world
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    1046 months ago

    Data from Brownsville ISD seen by The Observer showed its officers made 3,102 student arrests between May 2021 and Nov. 2023. Nearly 60% of those were on felony charges and 76 of those kids were in elementary school.

    What the everliving fuck is wrong with these people?

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    936 months ago

    Despite being accused of ignoring Texas laws which require parental involvement before such interventions, Cameron County District Attorney Rene Garza told a hearing Wednesday that his office was gathering further evidence against Murray, rather than deciding to drop the charges.

    If the law protects you, it will be ignored and the people who ignore it will face no consequences for their lawlessness. The law is for hurting you, and only laws that hurt you count.

    • ██████████
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      166 months ago

      i cant stop laughing at the idea of the grown ass adults asking a 10 year old boy if be wanted to hurt himself whilenin handcuffs so they put him in a turtle suit and solitary his ass

    • @Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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      1126 months ago

      This article:

      https://www.texasobserver.org/why-was-this-11-year-old-honor-roll-student-put-in-solitary/

      Should shed some light on the subject. Particularly:

      Garza comes from a Brownsville education legacy. Her mother, Rachel Medina Ayala, was one of Brownsville Independent School District’s first female superintendents. Garza’s two sisters are also principals in the district.

      So, in answer to your question:

      What kind of incompetent principal reacts to trouble making elementary schoolers by calling the cops on them?

      A nepotism hire with a vindictive streak.

    • 520
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      926 months ago

      This ain’t incompetence, this is a power trip. She also called CPS on a mother for questioning her special education needs program

    • Deceptichum
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      426 months ago

      The same that calls CPS on parents

      Other parents have also complained to the outlet about the principal. One mother said that, after a meeting with Garza about her 5-year-old in which her own mom questioned the school’s special education plan for the boy, Garza called Child Protective Services on her.

  • @A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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    566 months ago

    Well thats just an entire chain of people that are so completely divorced from reality, common sense, and compassion, that humanity would only benefit from them being skimmed out of the gene pool.

  • @Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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    556 months ago

    This is the same detention center that had an employee who embezzled 1.2 million dollars worth of fajitas over the course of 9 years. He only got caught because he took the day off to go to a doctor’s appointment and a delivery of 800lbs of skirt steak showed up that no one else was expecting.

    What I’m saying here is the Darrell B. Hester Juvenile Detention Center isn’t known for the fastidious oversight of its employees.

      • @Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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        196 months ago

        The Fajita Bandit has become a bit of a local folk hero, partly because of how ridiculous the story is, and partly because (in retrospect) fajitas were more reasonably priced in Cameron County than they had any right to be.

    • FuglyDuck
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      46 months ago

      …. Wtf is some one gonna do with 800 pounds of fajita?

    • @Uncle_Bagel@midwest.social
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      126 months ago

      Howdy Arabia is a police state hellscape. I cant wait for my parents to retire and move back up north so i never have to go back to that hellhole ever again.

      • lad
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        46 months ago

        More like a whole parallel multiverse with how each state has its own set of quirks

  • db0
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    146 months ago

    Americans have truly lost their minds…

  • @kewjo@lemmy.world
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    126 months ago

    if you actually want to protect kids, this is the shit you form a posse to go protect right? for all the people worried about children this is where you would show up at the court and/or prison and demand their release?