Timothy Murray lost his father earlier this year and had been asking his principal for counseling when she called in the police

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[–] 306 points 2 years ago (93 children)

Data from Brownsville ISD seen by The Observer showed its officers made 3,102 student arrests between May 2021 and Nov. 2023. Nearly 60% of those were on felony charges and 76 of those kids were in elementary school.

what the fuck is going on over there

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  • [–] 175 points 2 years ago (52 children)

    High-speed school-to-prison pipeline. Because inmates=free labour and prisons are for-profit. Gotta get 'em kidz institutionalized as early as possible!

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  • [–] 100 points 2 years ago (46 children)

    It's the conservative way. They hold these traditions sacred.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago* (45 children)

    I suspect that being born from the wrong vagina is a crime for those people.

    It just explains so many things: from their criminalization of abortion whilst taking State support away from poor single mothers to emprisioning kids who don't have a mommy and daddy with the right connections or who can afford the kind of lawyer who would extract a massive compensations from everybody involved in putting a kid in prision like this.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Literally there's an aspect of Evangelicalism and the "Prosperity Gospel" that portrays poor people as inherently sinful and evil, and it's not just limited to those aspects of Christianity:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_views_on_poverty_and_wealth

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Then you read the Bible and like almost all the references to the rich are negative and like where the heck do people even get this crap from.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago

    This was what they found in other schools too. One specific location ( I can't remember where) the dads formed a group to a) keep kids peaceful and b) because they were being sent to jail for schoolyard bs. It was a largely black school. If you want to look it up with the sad details my brain is providing. Sry

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago

    Yep. Also noticed that the principal that called the police and the DA refusing to drop the case have the same last name. Garza isn't that rare of a last name, but it's not exactly "Smith", either. I'd bet good money those fuckers are related to each other.

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