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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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

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

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

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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.

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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

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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.

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Wait, that’s just slavery with extra steps!

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Not “extra steps” but "plausible deniability"😉

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Why ban slavery when we can evolve it?!?

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what the fuck is going on over there

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

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Just republican shit.

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Murica! Murica! Murica!

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So much for that “stay in school” speech…

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What % of those kids were assholes?

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asshole doesn’t mean criminal

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I’m just saying… you never had a kid in class that was years older then everyone else, not doing shit, disrupting class all the time, getting violent and ending up in jail for attempt murder just after leaving school? I had. I wish there was a way to get him out of school earlier. I would be a better environment for everyone. But there wasn’t so they had to deal with him till he was 18 yo. Then on the other hand if you let teachers kick kids out they will get lazy and start locking up children for anything like in Texas.

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If being an asshole was illegal Texas would be a prison.

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9 points

They’re working on it…

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Texas. The new Australia.

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wtf is wrong with you?

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Were you never an asshole as a kid? It’s part of growing up. We work to make them better, but arresting them does nothing worthwhile.

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  1. Kids are kids. Asshole parents raise asshole adults.
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76 arrests of elementary students? Does it really matter? I have a hard time believing any arrest is appropriate for that age

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Shouldn’t matter. You don’t throw kids in jail just because they are assholes.

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You’re making up 110% of them

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