Police said the student was physically unharmed.
Byers-Smith said she asked police to search the school bus lot, but they told her they first needed to search her house …
Uh huh.
ACAB
Sounds like they’d rather go on a fishing expedition than do their jobs.
I don’t know man cops are shit but kids are great at hiding. How annoyed would you be if you went and searched all over the fucking county looking for this kid and you found out the kid was hiding behind an open door in their parents bedroom and fell asleep like I did to my parents when I was a kid.
That’d require the child be home, first. Mom was worrying because he hadn’t come home from the bus and no one was picking up the phone at the school or the bus company. I’m going to guess that getting into the house would have been noticeable because calling the cops was not mom’s go-to move – and they proved her prioritization correct by being useless.
But the cops have no reason to think the child is in the home at all? The mom called them because the bus never dropped him off and couldn’t get ahold of the school or bus company. She KNEW 100% her kid wasn’t home, they just refused to take her at her word.
“If you look closely you will notice she is black.”
-cops
She KNEW 100% her kid wasn’t home
It’s ok. The family is Black. They didn’t need to listen to her…
yeah, you act kike children become invisible. I’d say they are actually not that great at hiding and police officers should be competent enough to find one. This story tells it all.
…oof, that’s a bad typo there. Might want to fix that one.
Oh no, the police might do part of their job that doesn’t involve harassing minorities!
How easy do you think it is to hide from 3 or 4 cops on a school bus?
But he wasn’t hiding, he was lost and needed help being found. If the cops had listened to the mom he would’ve been found sooner without the unnecessary invasion of privacy.
The 5-year-old was honking the horn on the bus for help when he was found, she said.
I know, I was answering a hypothetical.
Oops, meant to respond to the commenter above you.
No worries.
Why did they even bring up the other bus getting hit by a car?
I love the last bit, “… these incidents are un-related …” Wow, thanks, I never could have figured that out.
fingers will be pointed, money will be paid out, platitudes will be passed around, and nothing will ever be done to fix he problem.
rinse and repeat.
Uhh they already fired the bus driver. Step one is done. No need to go all doom and gloom.
Reading is so fucking hard. Le sigh.
