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submitted 10 hours ago by HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to c/canada@lemmy.ca

A student in Rivers, Man., says he is stunned the small community was the site of a high-profile arrest after police say a teenage boy was planning simultaneous school attacks with another youth in Nova Scotia.

"I was surprised. Didn't really expect it. It's a small town. You don't really think of things like this happening in such a nice community," Cole Lelond, a Grade 11 student at Rivers Collegiate, said.

"It definitely worries me, now that I know things like that could happen in such a small community."

Police in Bridgewater, N.S., said they were alerted by international police agency Interpol and the FBI about online communications between a 15-year-old girl in that town and a 14-year-old boy in Manitoba. The pair were communicating about their desires to mount attacks at their local schools, Park View Education Centre and Rivers Collegiate, police said.

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[-] moonshadow@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I for one am grateful big brother was watching close enough to lovingly intercede in time. Who knows what could've happened if every word every man woman or child ever whispered weren't monitored and logged? There's definitely nothing sinister about it, just another well-deserved w for our completely necessary and fundamentally benevolent global surveillance state 🫡

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago

The other option was Interpol not seeing this and two cities possibly having mass killings happen at two schools.

I'm not saying that the global surveillance we live under is right all the time. I am saying that in this single instance it was a good thing.

[-] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago

Just think how much easier this will all be when we have our ID tied to our devices...

[-] moonshadow@slrpnk.net 2 points 8 hours ago

Driving my car into a crowd and being celebrated when one of the casualties turns out to be a pedo. The "other option" in your false dichotomy could very well be the kids commiserating and getting over it, this manufactured victory justifies absolutely nothing.

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