A fifth-grader reported being bullied by his principal. Five days later, he was handcuffed and detained.
Every monster who participated in putting an 11 year old in police solitary confinement should not keep their job and should face lawsuits.
Cameron County prosecutors pushed for Class C felony charges of “terroristic threat” and argued for two more weeks of detention.
Every authoritarian here is a power-tripping coward. Abusing a prepubescent child because they didn’t get the respect they demanded is the weakest and most craven thing someone can do.
11 years old. Lost his father, bullied by his principal, abandoned by the school district therapists, falsely arrested by the police and tortured for three days by the state.
If this kid manages to grow up to be a functional adult, it will be miracle.
It’s kind of amazing that we don’t hear more stories of abused ex-students retaliating against specific teachers and administrators when the kids get older.
When I was in high school, many decades ago, we had an 11th grade teacher who treated students like shit—and took a kind of delight in her cruelty. A year after having her, a group of six seniors broke into her car, late on a Saturday night, and totaled it by destroying every bit of the interior, dash, stick shift column, and windows. It was a testament to how despised she was that it was pretty well known who had done it, but no one ever ratted them out.
More of this story please? I love it
The smart ones tend to realize karma exists and skip town before too long.
There was no evidence he made any kind of threat against the principal other than heresay by other students?
What the hell.
That principal is an insecure power tripping loser.
This happens all the time
Some rich girl with lawyer parents accused me of making a death threat. I was suspended for a day.
Schools don’t give a shit, they are so damn paranoid that any accusation is true and any mention of the word “gun” or “knife” is immediately disciplined.
Sometimes I feel like it’s a self fulfilling prophecy. The stereotypical weird quiet kid gets bullied for being a “school shooter”, the school either disciplines him or treats him like one (checking their bag every morning and snooping through their phone and online activity) and the kid is totally isolated because there’s zero sympathy for him. Everyone bullies him and the school treats him as a threat. You can only pressure a being so much before they lash out.
I would know cause that was pretty much me until I dropped out.
Yeah, it was me too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labeling_theory
Why Was This 11-Year-Old Brownsville ISD Honor Student Put in Solitary For Three Days?
Because it’s Texas. The answer is always because it’s Texas… Well, okay. Sometimes it’s Florida too.
Real answer? America.
This is a serious over-generalization. Brownsville and the RGV vote reliably Democratic, and abuse of authority situations, involving school districts, criminal justice systems, and the police, et al, absolutely happen all over the country.
Was in the RGV right before Trump was elected - and again during the Beto-Cruz fight - the amount of support for conservatives there is MIND BOGGLING. I kept asking ‘how the fuck are so many latinos in the can for Cruz and Trump?’ I do not understand, especially around Harlingen and the other ‘towns’ down there.
So they tortured a child.
Well, it was not a fetus anymore…
So why is that bitch of a principal not dead or in jail yet?
This is horrifying. I know abuse of power is nothing new, especially in education and law enforcement, but people find new lows every day it seems. I’m glad others were there to step up and help.
It sounds like the individual responsible, Palm Grove Elementary School Principal Myrta Garza could still be a threat to additional students though. I know it’s Texas but there has to be some group there that can investigate this individual.
The contact info for the district’s internal audit:
The lesson here is not to question authority or you’ll get arrested and locked up.
