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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA terrorist act or just plain youthful stupidity
A father is suing the city of Pensacola and the Escambia County School District after his son was arrested and reassigned to an alternative school for posting a school shooting "meme."
The incident, which occurred in 2018, involved a student who was at the time an eighth grader at Workman Middle School. The student reportedly made an Instagram post with a picture of an individual attaching a silencer to a handgun and the caption, "When you're shooting up the school and about to enter the library."
The picture was reportedly posted Feb. 13, 2018, a day before 17 people were shot and killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. A parent reported the post to a Workman guidance counselor Feb. 16, and the juvenile was arrested by a school resource officer that day for "conspiring to disrupt the education process," according to the lawsuit.
https://www.pnj.com/story/news/2020/08/17/pensacola-students-family-sues-after-arrest-over-school-shooting-meme/3381129001/
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A terrorist act or just plain youthful stupidity (Original Post)
packman
Aug 2020
OP
I gotta admit, that meme actually is kinda funny in a morbid sort of way ...
mr_lebowski
Aug 2020
#2
This. In that context, yea it would be hilarious! Otherwise, not so much. n/t
ms liberty
Aug 2020
#7
berni_mccoy
(23,018 posts)1. There's a few things you don't do
You dont scream Fire in a crowded theater
You dont talk about bombs when boarding planes
And you dont joke about school shootings
demosincebirth
(12,541 posts)3. There's never a time...
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)2. I gotta admit, that meme actually is kinda funny in a morbid sort of way ...
Kid picked a REALLY bad time to post it though that's for sure.
unblock
(52,257 posts)4. And a good time to post it would be...?
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)6. Definitely not 1 day before 17 kids were murdered at a school ...
It's always a bad time ... that was a REALLY bad time.
bbernardini
(9,938 posts)5. I'm going to go with youthful stupidity.
In another context, the joke could be pretty damn hilarious. I could easily see a joke like this in a "Naked Gun" or "Top Secret" style film, where characters are having a running gun battle, but they all stop to attach silencers when the chase takes them into a library.
As a school shooting joke? Not funny.
ms liberty
(8,580 posts)7. This. In that context, yea it would be hilarious! Otherwise, not so much. n/t
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,862 posts)8. I go with youthful stupidity.
Especially given he was an 8th grader.