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submitted 2 years ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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

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[-] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 305 points 2 years 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 fuck is going on over there

[-] Shurimal@kbin.social 173 points 2 years ago

High-speed school-to-prison pipeline. Because inmates=free labour and prisons are for-profit. Gotta get 'em kidz institutionalized as early as possible!

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 99 points 2 years ago

It's the conservative way. They hold these traditions sacred.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I suspect that being born from the wrong vagina is a crime for those people.

It just explains so many things: from their criminalization of abortion whilst taking State support away from poor single mothers to emprisioning kids who don't have a mommy and daddy with the right connections or who can afford the kind of lawyer who would extract a massive compensations from everybody involved in putting a kid in prision like this.

[-] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

Literally there's an aspect of Evangelicalism and the "Prosperity Gospel" that portrays poor people as inherently sinful and evil, and it's not just limited to those aspects of Christianity:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_views_on_poverty_and_wealth

[-] nixcamic@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Then you read the Bible and like almost all the references to the rich are negative and like where the heck do people even get this crap from.

[-] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hippie socialist Jesus > Supply-Side Republican/Conservative Jesus

Any educated and intelligent person should see that the prosperity gospel is just greed promotion disguised as religious edicts.

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[-] JoJoGAH@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago

This was what they found in other schools too. One specific location ( I can't remember where) the dads formed a group to a) keep kids peaceful and b) because they were being sent to jail for schoolyard bs. It was a largely black school. If you want to look it up with the sad details my brain is providing. Sry

[-] Perfide@reddthat.com 27 points 2 years ago

Yep. Also noticed that the principal that called the police and the DA refusing to drop the case have the same last name. Garza isn't that rare of a last name, but it's not exactly "Smith", either. I'd bet good money those fuckers are related to each other.

[-] Raine_Wolf@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Wait, that's just slavery with extra steps!

[-] Shurimal@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Not "extra steps" but "plausible deniability"😉

[-] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Why ban slavery when we can evolve it?!?

[-] aseriesoftubes@lemmy.world 85 points 2 years ago

what the fuck is going on over there

Brownsville is 94% Hispanic or Latino. This is Texas doing Texas shit.

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 63 points 2 years ago

Just republican shit.

[-] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 32 points 2 years ago

Murica! Murica! Murica!

[-] Nepenthe@kbin.social 21 points 2 years ago

So much for that "stay in school" speech...

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