An 11 y.o. boy in middle school from Port Orange, FL, has been arrested, perp walked, and charged for threateni

[riversedge]

I do not believe 11 year old kids should be perp walked for all the world to see.
The kid needs counseling--maybe for years, not this. No!




An 11 year-old boy in middle school from Port Orange, Florida, has been arrested, perp walked, and charged for threatening to commit a mass shooting at a middle school.

Authorities also showed off his arsenal of weapons.

Whaddya wanna bet his parents are MAGA?

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[oswaldactedalone]

1. Perp walk the hell out of

those terrorists. I don’t care how old they are.

[magicarpet]

9. Nail the parents to the wall as well,...

... what is a kid his age doing with that type of arsenal of weapons ?

[cally]

2. Agree

Children should not be treated as adults.

[Darwins_Retriever]

7. He should be confined

In a mental hospital and therapy should be administered for a very long time. His parents need to be investigated and jailed. All of his acquaintances should be investigated.

[cally]

13. Yes

But I am not comfortable with this society’s assumption it is the parents fault. Mental illness has a very complex origin.

Someone had to pay for the guns, though, and help hide the guns.

[sarisataka]

14. What guns?

there isn't a "real" gun in that picture

[CrispyQ]

3. Holy shit! An 11 year old kid had all that?

IDK how much difference it makes, but were all those weapons in his room or just in the house & he had access?

[stopdiggin]

4. not particularly in favor of using kids for propaganda purposes

(regardless of the position or political axe being ground)

On the other hand, is it not somewhat relevant to juxtapose the the trauma caused to the perpetrator - against that caused to society and the victims by these actions, and threats?

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[ms liberty]

5. The parents were perp walked too, I hope. An 11 year old is a child.

The parents should be getting perp walked WITH the child.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. lol "arsenal of weapons"

[sarisataka]

12. I have seen a pistol and a pocketknife described as an "arsenal"

however describing a bunch of airsoft guns and some display "swords" as weapons is really stretching the definition.

It is good to see them taking a threat seriously, but this is a major overreaction to treat the kid like he is the reincarnation of bin Ladin

[Gore1FL]

15. The video showed a lot more than swords.

There were at least two long rifles and what looked to my unskilled eyes to be a shotgun.

I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of this kid's angst.

[sarisataka]

19. They are air soft guns

they can look very real but are the modern equivalent of the dart guns most of us played with as kids. Some have had the orange tips removed that identify them as "not real". They shoot plastic BBs.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

16. .

however describing a bunch of airsoft guns and some display "swords" as weapons is really stretching the definition.

There are a lot of people who clearly don't understand what they're looking at, and some of the tweets from media folks really aren't helping matters.

but this is a major overreaction

And not just by the sheriff, heh.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. Anyway, the sheriff is doing this to "make an example" out of kids who make hoax threats.

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2024/09/17/volusia-sheriff-fed-up-with-school-shooting-hoaxes-posts-boys-mugshot-on-social-media/

DAYTONA BEACH — A Florida sheriff fed up with a spate of false school shooting threats is taking a new tactic to try get through to students and their parents: he’s posting the mugshot of any offender on social media.

Law enforcement officials in Florida and across the country have seen a wave of school shooting hoaxes recently, including in the wake of the deadly attack at Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga., which killed two students and two teachers.

Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood said he’s tired of the hoaxes targeting students, disrupting schools and sapping law enforcement resources. In social media posts Monday, Chitwood warned parents that if their kids are arrested for making these threats, he’ll make sure the public knows.

“Since parents, you don’t want to raise your kids, I’m going to start raising them,” Chitwood said. “Every time we make an arrest, your kid’s photo is going to be put out there. And if I can do it, I’m going to perp walk your kid so that everybody can see what your kid’s up to.”

[riversedge]

10. The Sheriff had previously threatened them earlier...........

Link to tweet

[Traildogbob]

11. This sheriff

Gives me hope. And he is in FUCKING Florida.
It’s way past time to address American grown terrorism.
But he is extremely a minority.
FOB supporting Trump, and look at the Sheriff in Ohio looking to get names of all Harris’s supporters.

[hawkeye21]

18. So why wasn't this how Donald Trump was handled on Jan. 6?

Everyone is equal under the law . . . but some are more equal than others.

The 11-year-old and his parents probably deserve it. But then why doesn't the doddering dictator who tried to overthrow his own government deserve it? WHY?

Merrick Garland seems to be a bigger coward than old man Trump.

[Wonder Why]

20. An 11 year old is still a child brought up by lunatic father.

He probably just now understands the difference between video game and TV deaths and real pain to real people.

😪😒🙁😢

[sarisataka]

21. How quickly people forget the brain isn't fully developed until 25

and suddenly become fans of draconian punishment

[RussBLib]

22. Now it's Florida boy...

....instead of Florida man.

Good to hear some public outrage. I think this sheriff is on the right track.

[doc03]

23. He needs the crap scared out of him. nt

[Jk23]

24. I was expecting an article about a kid who violated the school dress code.

This seems an almost reasonable response by the Sherrif.