Kids I care about have gone to these things. Grown adults are showing up to harass - “roll coal” in the kids faces, throw things from cars.
Mustang public schools suspended all children who walked out, with support of the governor of Oklahoma.
People almost seemed to get a hard on at the idea of hurting these children in Facebook comments.
Isn't Tulsa the place where white people massacred the cities Black population because they were doing better than the white people economically?
"Here is our lawyer fabricated excuse for harming children."
The adults are not alright.
ACAB. Cops are on the side of the ruling class. Expect to see increasing violence from them as we push back more and more against the Epstein-supporting ruling class.
For any cops out there, you should resign and get a job which actually helps society.
They also groom kids on discord to do school shootings and then hang back on the stoop on the school to let them do it.
Hey now!! You're only saying that because we've seen them do it. If there's one thing this administration demands of its citizens, it's that you absolutely must NOT believe your own eyes.
Yeah I thought that police maybe needed reform, I didn't realize that they were literally just doing all of the crime.
This isn't surprising. Back in the 70s, people cheered as college students were murdered at Kent State and construction workers attacked protesting students.
The kids are learning early why it is the greatest country in the world.
Sugarcoated Oppression
They'll frame these kids as woke communist agitators, and the rest of the country will eat it up and hate the kids.
There is very little that a student could do to justify pepper spraying them, and I’m damn near 100% positive this is a case of the student doing none of that.
The entire press release comes from the angle of students having accountability for peaceful protests but speaks not at all to the accountability of police to follow the constitution and other basic laws they have been shown repeatedly in countless jurisdictions to have less than admirable compliance with.
A neutral press release would have also included that the police are accountable for ensuring the rights of all citizens including minors and taking extreme prejudice against escalating to violence. That last part is key, as they have been shown repeatedly to not do so.
This school board is supporting an atmosphere where unnecessary escalations of violence is presented as the norm and where the two parties have unequal duty to the laws that govern interaction.
Apparently chemical weapons are now in the hierarchy of punishments that can be used against students for noncompliance in red states. Briefly, of course. For their safety.
Its oklahoma. Where they tried to put trump bibles in all the schools. Not sure what people were expecting.
Redstate shithole doing redstate shithole things
Being Oklahoman I'm not surprised the fascist governor and the pigs of Tulsa for doing this. Only bright side is these kids will now be radicalized and we need the youth on our side.
Teaching the kids they are living in a fascist hell hole. Noe that is some education right there.
America is bad. Like, we're living through it, and we can attest to the fact. But red states are even worse, with bottom rankings in quality of life, education, affordability, and opportunity. But obviously that's the fault of the Democrats (who aren't in charge)... /s
The passive voice is so obvious and out of place
"pepper spray was deployed", you know that just sort of happens sometimes. Gotta keep an eye on that stuff or it will just go deploying itself all over students 'faces.
If we have to kill our students to keep them safe, we will! /s
Sensationalized title.
The fight was between multiple students. From what I can tell the protest still continued.
FOX23 also spoke with a freshman at Will Rogers High School who shared the following statement:
"What happened today shouldn't represent Rogers or its students as a whole. The incident occurred between only a certain group of kids and believe me, all of us students are very upset about it because we just want our voices to be heard. We know how bad this may look for us, but today's events don't reflect on anyone except for the students who acted recklessly."
Video included.
I’ve been expected to break up fights in the only district in Oklahoma worse than TPS, and I managed to never need to pepper spray or send anyone to the hospital.
I wonder what part of their Student and Family Guide to Success includes "peaceful protest will get crowd control ordinance used on you". I'm sure it was for "officer safety" or some ACAB bullshit like that.
Cops are all impatient little bitches. If you don't comply, they escalate just because they can't fucking wait for someone to calm down.
Sorry kids, but lessons in fascism extend beyond truancy.
How long until a school shooting is done by the police?
OP's title completely states they were pepper sprayed for protesting.
The letter states that a group of kids got into a fight with each other and that those kids got pepper sprayed after the cops intervened.
So what happened? Because right now OP looks like he's making up some clickbait hyperbole bullshit.
Yeah we should totally take the official police story as fact. They totally should be trusted implicitly.
It's the schools story. You also damn well know there's 100 cell phone videos of the entire thing, and it makes way more sense that a handful of kids fighting got pepper sprayed instead of "school police escorted a thousand students out to the stadium for their protest and then proceeded to spraying them all down with pepper spray" or something like that. Quit blowing everything out of proportion to make it seem like some major atrocity.
It doesn't need to be some major atrocity. "Police resort to violence in order to end high school fight" works for me.
Ok. Say there was like 10 teens fighting. What did you want them to do?
If they can't figure out a way to break that up without fucking pepper spraying children they don't deserve to be a cop.
Ah. I see. "Figure it out". Great job at an answer, Chief.
Why the fuck are you putting the burden on me? Yes, they should fucking figure out how do deescalate a fight between children without restoring to pepper spray.
I'm not a police officer working in a school so why would you assume I would have training and answers to this situation? Why would you assume I know these answers instead of assuming the adults in this line of work would have been provided basic training on de-escalation and how to keep children safe instead of injuring them? Why the fuck are they carrying pepper spray in a school in the first place?
Nothing says protest like following the protest guidelines, eh. FYI, you are doing it wrong people.
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