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Student Investigated After Allegedly Saying a Math Symbol Looked Like a Gun

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February 22, 2018, 03:24 PM
KMitch200
Student Investigated After Allegedly Saying a Math Symbol Looked Like a Gun
quote:
Detectives also searched the students home

What. The. Fuck. Searching a home over a comment about a math symbol?
Not no but HELL NO! Until the "detectives" have enough maturity and brain power to talk sense, go away.


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February 22, 2018, 03:26 PM
mark_a
Would love to know if they were given permission to search the house or obtained a warrant...

As idiotic as this story already is a judge signing a warrant would be incredibly terrible...
February 22, 2018, 03:32 PM
jhe888
quote:
Originally posted by KMitch200:
quote:
Detectives also searched the students home

What. The. Fuck. Searching a home over a comment about a math symbol?
Not no but HELL NO! Until the "detectives" have enough maturity and brain power to talk sense, go away.


Go get your fucking warrant. I would hope most judges would tell them to pound sand.

Except that application for the warrant, if the DA got interested, would be full of un-specific crap about "credible threats." Not about square root symbols.



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February 22, 2018, 03:33 PM
rusbro
IF the reporting is accurate and fairly complete, and a search warrant was issued based on a harmless comment, it sure sounds like a bunch of stupid CYA over nothing. Might the student and family have a case for illegal search?
February 22, 2018, 03:34 PM
Ryanp225
quote:
Originally posted by KMitch200:
quote:
Detectives also searched the students home

What. The. Fuck. Searching a home over a comment about a math symbol?
Not no but HELL NO! Until the "detectives" have enough maturity and brain power to talk sense, go away.

Was there a warrant issued? NRA should help them out with some legal counsel.
February 22, 2018, 03:55 PM
Zecpull
There probably was no one on the sheriff department that made it to a high enough math class to know what a square root is..


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February 22, 2018, 04:43 PM
walkinghorse
Looks like a bunch of kids in schools, now know how to cause disruptions that will get them out of class and school for a period of time. As if they did not already know but now have a new 'tool' in their repitoire. Want to get out of a pop math quiz, "Hey he is drawing a gun!"


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February 22, 2018, 05:39 PM
whanson_wi
I didn't feel threatened by math until I ran into integrating secant and such.


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February 22, 2018, 05:48 PM
x0225095
quote:
Originally posted by wishfull thinker:
quote:
Originally posted by RichardC:


Well, it has a shoulder thing that goes up.


Glock?


Glock 19X.

It has a lanyard loop.


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February 22, 2018, 05:50 PM
WaterburyBob
To the morons that over-reacted like that - it must be horrible to live your life that scared.


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February 22, 2018, 06:23 PM
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February 22, 2018, 06:30 PM
Skins2881
quote:
Originally posted by Ryanp225:
quote:
Originally posted by KMitch200:
quote:
Detectives also searched the students home

What. The. Fuck. Searching a home over a comment about a math symbol?
Not no but HELL NO! Until the "detectives" have enough maturity and brain power to talk sense, go away.

Was there a warrant issued? NRA should help them out with some legal counsel.


If there was that judge deserves to be disbarred.

If there wasn't, why the fuck did they allow them to search their house? I would have told the cops to FOAD when they showed up at my house.


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February 22, 2018, 07:00 PM
egregore
quote:
If there wasn't, why the fuck did they allow them to search their house? I would have told the cops to FOAD when they showed up at my house.

Leaving aside the bogus reason for obtaining it, I don't think you're allowed to refuse a legal warrant.
February 22, 2018, 07:04 PM
brecaidra
I'm still trying to figure out how his comment could have been construed as a threat, even when taken out of context.



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February 22, 2018, 07:16 PM
12131
quote:
Originally posted by brecaidra:
I'm still trying to figure out how his comment could have been construed as a threat, even when taken out of context.

You cannot use logic to understand the mindset of the hysterical mass. It's un-understandable.


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February 22, 2018, 07:43 PM
wrightd
quote:
Originally posted by Zecpull:
There probably was no one on the sheriff department that made it to a high enough math class to know what a square root is..

After hearing the sheriff on the cnn "town hall", I think that's right. He seems the embodiment of the peter priciple in the sheriff's dept.



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February 22, 2018, 07:46 PM
SevenPlusOne
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Originally posted by RichardC:


Well, it has a shoulder thing that goes up.


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February 22, 2018, 07:52 PM
12131
This is the shoulder thing that goes up.




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February 22, 2018, 07:58 PM
Rightwire
Can a school or police possibly overreact any more over a comment?



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February 22, 2018, 09:55 PM
flashguy
quote:
Originally posted by jayhalsey:
They searched his home off of a comment that a written symbol looked like a gun?
I think that would be cause for a lawsuit--big time! The parents should hire a really good lawyer!

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