12-Year-Old Sikh Boy Arrested In Texas After Bringing a Power Bag To School (salon.com)

AaronW writes: A 12-year-old Sikh boy in Dallas, Texas was accused by another student of bringing a bomb to school. Apparently he had a powerbag; a backpack with a built-in phone charger. Rather than send him to the principal's office or ask for an explanation, the teacher instead called the police, who promptly arrested him and threw him into a juvenile detention center for three days. The school promptly suspended Armaan, and the police released him after three days but required that he wear an ankle bracelet. Verifiable details are scant, for this case — probably because the whole thing seems to revolve around some 12-year-old kids talking to each other. Armaan's story is that another student said his bag looked like it had a bomb in it, and that he would report it. Believing it to be a joke, Armaan laughed. The police say he "admitted" to joking about a bomb, and they insist their actions were justified. A school district spokesman says the family was notified, but the parents say they had to dial 911 to find somebody who could tell them where their son was being held.

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Re: John Oliver

[Rockoon]

Hrm, spellcheck changed "fascists" to "racists" in my reply. Please mentally edit accordingly.

With the way the left decries any requirement of presenting identification as racist in the case of voting, their push for even more strict gun control laws is surely racist under the same standard. You wouldnt want to deprive black people guns just because the place to get an I.D. is way across town, do you?