Bodycam footage inside classroom shows Massachusetts cop saying they could "search every room and ask every teacher" for Gender Queer book
Bodycam footage inside classroom shows Great Barrington police officer say they could 'search every room and ask every teacher' for book
Why is the police even involved in this. Unless the book in question is banned by law, or at least a court order, then there's no reason for the police to be involved.
This is one more case of the police overstepping their authority.
The school is trying to be helpful and do whatever is necessary to molify the cop, which is understandable. However, the school's best bet, once they became aware of the cop's intentions, would have been to whip out their phone cameras, refuse to answer questions, and refer him to the school board's lawyer. What's the cop going to do? He either has to leave and try to get a warrant, or he can double-down on a school-wide search, on camera, and look like an even bigger jackass.
Like everyone else, schools should remember to Shut The Fuck Up (tm).
It's strange seeing schools being raided for books
This is what the beginnings of a fascist dictatorship look like. We're only a few bad elections from it becoming a reality.
This response is so important, a few bad elections locally are leading to these types of interactions. We have paid so much attention to national issues (rightfully) that we missed the LOCAL religious fascists at the door. We are on the verge of some very dark times unless a systemic understanding and change of state and local politics takes place quickly.
It’s not strange if you paid attention during history lessons about Germany during the time just before WW2
Good point, we should ban those history books as well.
So he's a fascist
As are most cops.
ACAB
The rest are too.
on top of doing nazi shit - in the 7 or so minutes he was covering his camera, he only uncovers it for the second or two that the teacher bends over in front of him. what a scum fuck
Neat. history in Real life. Kids .. these are Gestapo. They are going to ensure you think only approved thoughts.
(413) 528-0306 Let them know they have a Nazi problem.
The cop is going about this wrong. The teacher that brought that book in is also wrong. They are wrong to assume the illustrations are appropriate for young children, I’m not talking about the queer aspect, it shows illustrations of oral sex. The teacher should be reprimanded by administrators, if no law was broken, the police shouldn’t be involved.
This was an eighth grade class room, they've been through sex-ed. Withholding knowledge about how their physical bodies work won't help them, and can create issues of their own. I thumbed through the pages (and you can too) and nothing was terribly pornagraphic.
Get real, “withholding knowledge ” …part of raising a child is understanding when to expose them to information, you do it everyday. This material is probably appropriate for a high school library.
I’ve read it. It’s designed for at least seniors in high school if not college age. It talks about visiting kink.com among other mature subjects. It’s an interesting exploration of someone who is trying to find themselves, but it isn’t eighth grade material.
Still, there’s no reason to send a cop to hunt it down like this is Farenheit 451.
Any questions any kid has about growing up, certainly including questions about their bodies and sexuality, should be easily answerable from an open shelf at the school library.
This book was brought in by a teacher, it wasn’t in the library. School librarians screen for age appropriate material.
To bad there wasn't a School Shooter killing all the kids. Then the cops would have left everyone alone!
He would be really popular in prison. He'd make a good Fifi, too.
Fire this dude. This isn't protecting and serving, this is abuse.
Officer Joseph O’Brien.
Ensure we use his name.
O man, gonna need a date of birth or social or something. Doubt this is the only Joe Obrien on the MA police force.
Luckily the odds are they all deserve to be fired, so don’t need to worry too much
Pretty sure Protect and Serve was made up for TV.