• Manjushri@piefed.social
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    1 day ago

    It wasn’t even in his hand.

    The crumpled Doritos bag in his pocket had been mistaken for a gun.

    This was a good kid who crumbled up the bag and stuck it in his pocket instead of littering, and he gets traumatized by a bunch of cops for it. Hell, he could have lost his life if an acorn had fallen at the wrong moment.

    • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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      1 day ago

      Ah okay.

      In protest, everyone in that school should walk around with rulers, wrappers, bottles and other things sticking out of their pockets to trigger the system.

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        24 hours ago

        For fucks sake in 2002 I and all the other FFA kids went to school with knives and/or multitools clipped to our belts.

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          11 hours ago

          In the 80s, my Mom’s redneck ass school allowed all the dudes that hunted to keep their guns in their pickup truck gun racks. Which were very visible.