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Think those exploding neck collars from Battle Royale is the way to go.

Just imagine how much money they will make from Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems Raytheon and other firms battling for the contracts to make those.

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1 hour ago, sne said:

Think those exploding neck collars from Battle Royale is the way to go.

Just imagine how much money they will make from Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems Raytheon and other firms battling for the contracts to make those.

It's a start but I would connect them all,  if you commit a crime a random family members collar triggers and yours.

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1 minute ago, Amsterdam_Neil_D said:

It's a start but I would connect them all,  if you commit a crime a random family members collar triggers and yours.

So more like the Rutger Hauer movie Wedlock?

I like it!

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Arming teachers is just so monumentally dumb.

Imagine just one of those teachers going mad and shooting someone.

Suddenly the government had trained and armed the shooter.

Even if Trump etc were being completely selfish and only worrying about themselves and their reputation, it's suicide.

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Video Shows School Security Guard Beating Student With Cerebral Palsy

A California school security guard faces child abuse charges after attacking a student in a wheelchair, ABC affiliate KGO reported. The station acquired video that reportedly shows Marchell Mitchell, 23, a security guard at Oakland High School, repeatedly slapping the student, Francisco Martinez, 17. Eventually, the guard shoves the student, who has cerebral palsy, out of his wheelchair and onto the floor.

“The fact that it happened to a student who has cerebral palsy only compounds the damage and how awful this incident is,” Oakland School District spokesperson Troy Flint told KGO.

Security officers were reportedly urging lingering students to get to class on May 19 when the scuffle broke out. Mitchell was trying to wheel the student to class when the teen slapped his hands, according to KGO. The guard handcuffed the student, who then spat at him, officials said. That prompted the security guard to attack the student and push him out of his wheelchair, the video shows.

“We acknowledge that there was a small physical exchange prior to the security officer essentially flipping out and attacking the student. But nothing that even remotely could have justified what occurred,” Flint said.

The student said he now has a scar under his chin. School district officials said Mitchell, who was arrested and charged with felony child abuse, passed a background check. He was immediately fired.

The district added that it is reviewing policies about how security guards handle conflicts at schools.

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Student Says Security Officer Beat Him

Lonnie Holman, 16, needed 10 stitches to close the gash in his eye

School officials in Gary, Ind., on Wednesday said they were investigating a scuffle that left a student and an off-duty police officer injured.

Lonnie Holman, 16, needed 10 stitches to close the gash in his eye, has cuts to his arms and head, and a fractured eye socket following the Tuesday afternoon incident at Lew Wallace High School. The officer, who was working as a security officer for the school, had cuts to his hands and a wrist injury. According to the Gary Police Department, school officials ordered students back into the gymnasium after an incident during the school's lunch hour. Holman said a security officer who was escorting his sister to the office socked him after Holman refused to go back to the gym.

"I will always protect my brother and sister. They're all I have," the teen said Wednesday evening. "They're the only family I have."

Holman's mother, Esmerelda Hernandez, said she's been told nothing about why her son was punched.

"I want the officer and the school to be held responsible for what they've done to my child," she said. "It could have easily been anyone else's child."
 
Holman, a transfer student whose only attended the school for nine days, spent Tuesday evening in juvenile detention and remains under house arrest, charged with assaulting a peace officer and resisting arrest. A school spokeswoman said only that an investigation was ongoing.

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Video Shows Officer Flipping Student in South Carolina, Prompting Inquiry

The authorities in South Carolina are investigating an encounter captured on two videos that went viral Monday afternoon that show a white school police officer in a Columbia classroom grabbing an African-American student by the neck, flipping her backward as she sat at her desk, then dragging and throwing her across the floor.

The videos, apparently shot by students in the classroom, were picked up by national news outlets and had ricocheted across social media platforms by Monday evening, sparking a new round of angry and anguished debate over how police officers treat African-Americans.

The Richland County sheriff, Leon Lott, told a South Carolina television station that the officer, a deputy with the sheriff’s department, had been responding to a disruptive student who was refusing to leave class at Spring Valley High School, a campus of about 2,000 students that is about 52 percent black and 30 percent white. Officials did not release the name of either the student or the deputy. But students identified the officer as Ben Fields, who is listed on the school district’s website as one of the two officers assigned to the high school. His biography on the website said he also coaches the school football team’s defensive line and is the team’s strength and conditioning coach.

Officer Fields did not respond to a voice mail message left at his home on Monday. Debbie Hamm, the superintendent of the Richland County School District Two, said officials were “deeply concerned” about the confrontation. School and district officials were “working closely and in full cooperation” with county sheriff’s investigators, she said. Dr. Hamm also said the officer is not allowed to work at any district schools pending the outcome of the investigation.

A statement from Sheriff Lott on Monday evening said officials in his department were “aware of the incident, and are looking into the circumstances that took place this afternoon, and will have more once we look at the information in its entirety.”

The videos of the classroom encounter were reminiscent of a cellphone video earlier this year that captured a white police officer in McKinney, Tex., shoving a black teenage girl in a bikini to the ground at a gathering at a neighborhood swimming pool. The police in that instance had been responding to reports of a fight and a disturbance at a pool party, and the officer resigned soon afterward.

NYT 2015

" They’d go for special training and they would be there and you would no longer have a gun-free zone. Gun-free zone to a maniac, because they’re all cowards, a gun-free zone is: ‘Let’s go in and let’s attack, because bullets aren’t coming back at us’.” - Donald Trump 2018

Oh great!

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1 hour ago, HanoiVillan said:

Oh, good - finally, we have black music repurposed as an anti-immigrant dolchstosslegende:

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I've been downplaying some of the reactions to Trump in recent months, but this really is pretty despicable.

I believe he was reciting it throughout his campaign.

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1 hour ago, HanoiVillan said:

Oh, good - finally, we have black music repurposed as an anti-immigrant dolchstosslegende:

I've been downplaying some of the reactions to Trump in recent months, but this really is pretty despicable.

So Trump is the snake and the kind woman is the American voters?

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7 minutes ago, snowychap said:

I believe he was reciting it throughout his campaign.

Yes, that's true, but I think there's a significant difference between saying it on the campaign trail and saying it as a sitting President.

On this topic, the New York Times 'Daily' podcast yesterday was quite interesting. They had Mona Charen on, who is a very right-wing pundit for websites like Townhall.com and so on who never had much of a problem with the Bush administration that I can recall. Anyway, she was at CPAC and on a panel about #MeToo, and mentioned that it was ridiculous to have a panel about sexual harassment without mentioning Trump (which was exactly as popular as you would expect). She also pointed out that Marianne Le Pen had been invited to the conference, seemingly purely because of her name, and having made these two observations was escorted out of the event under tight security.  

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1 minute ago, HanoiVillan said:

Yes, that's true, but I think there's a significant difference between saying it on the campaign trail and saying it as a sitting President.

Indeed. I agree.

And from what I've briefly read on it this has morphed from being about immigrants from particular places (i.e. Syria and other countries that were the targets of the ban) to immigration in general now.

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1 hour ago, snowychap said:

Indeed. I agree.

And from what I've briefly read on it this has morphed from being about immigrants from particular places (i.e. Syria and other countries that were the targets of the ban) to immigration in general now.

May as well chisel it onto the Statue of Liberty now.  It's a bit longer than the original "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door", but the meaning of the snake one is a better fit for the nation these days.

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