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[–] 249 points 1 year ago (9 children)

There is something fundamentally fucked up in a country that arrests and puts in jail a 13 years old kid over a bad joke.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Are schools not government organisations (in most cases) and would they not be subject to the first amendment?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    The first amendment is not absolute - things like threats are not protected speech. Although I agree that in this instance there might be a case that her constitutional rights were violated, I suspect it would be dismissed as having been a justifiable action from the administration/police who "couldn't ignore a credible threat" or something equally bullshit...

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