The 14-year-old boy was put in handcuffs and marched out of his classroom on Monday.
Wild that the arrest of someone sending death threats needs to be defended.
Ragebait title. Bullying is one thing. Death threats is another. That goes way beyond simple bullying. The arrest was fully justified.
The controversy comes days after it emerged that education officials had sent a threatening letter to the parents of a boy who had complained of being bullied by classmates for months, saying their public statements complaining about the bullying were “unacceptable” and urged them to adopt a “constructive” attitude.
The boy, identified as Nicolas, 15, later killed himself on 5 September in a Paris suburb, one day after pupils went back to school after the summer break.
Oh, got it. So they fucked up real bad and are now trying make this about the police response so no one will question why they helped a bully kill his target.
The quoted comments go far beyond bullying. Death threats should always end in an arrest.
Totally agree. Kids have killed themselves over stuff like this. It is a criminal offence for a reason.
The kid killed himself. :-/
Extremely sad.
Not the guardian relativising violence against trans people?! Colour me shocked.
I fully support the arrest, those are serious threats and they should be met with serious consequences.
It’s still weird to me that it was done in a classroom though. I understand the intent of “sending a strong message” but idk if I like it all that much. They could’ve arrested him at his home and forgo this whole performative stunt.
When I was in high school someone in my class did some highly fucked up shit and got in very serious legal trouble for it (and we never saw him at the school again). After he was expelled/arrested, we just had a very long talk in class about what he did and why it was so serious and wrong, and it was effective, it’s one of few things I remember from high school now actually lol. We didn’t need to have the police show up to scare us into not doing it, at least I didn’t, idk how effective it was on everyone else.
Not sure how I feel about that.
If it has been done after school, they’d complain about police interrupting dinner. This was a no win situation. I guess they could have asked the parents to bring the kid in, but I don’t see why white glove service is required for an ugly crime like that.
Don’t threaten to kill people and you won’t be ‘shamed’ by getting arrested at school.
“I thought it was impossible for police to come into a classroom,”
Why would you think that? It’s a classroom, not an embassy.
“Common sense would dictate that such arrests not be made in class, even when completely justified,”
Can someone explain that “common sense” to me? Why not? What is so special about a class room?
That’s where the person that needed arresting currently was, so that’s where you arrest them. What’s the big deal?
Yeah their logic is wild to me.
Do that think if, hypothetically, a murderer was in the classroom that police should wait until class ends to make an arrest?
