A school district and local prosecutors in Texas are refusing to drop charges against an 11-year-old who was held in solitary confinement.
Officers detained the boy and placed him in solitary confinement for three days at the Darrell B. Hester Juvenile Detention Center. Cameron County prosecutors argued for charges of “terroristic threat.”
Despite being accused of ignoring Texas laws which require parental involvement before such interventions, Cameron County District Attorney Rene Garza told a hearing Wednesday that his office was gathering further evidence against Murray, rather than deciding to drop the charges.
Cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9591073
Judge: Adela Kowalski-Garza
Prosecutor: Rene Garza
Principal: Myrta Garza“[Garza] has a lot of people to back her up. She has people in high places. So I guess she can basically do whatever she wants and she receives no consequences for it.
Hmmm.
This is what I want the article to actually be about.
Which Garza said that?
Yes.
Charges Against Texas 11-Year-Old
Um, what?
Put in Solitary Confinement
Um, WHAT?!
irked Palm Grove Elementary principal Myrta Garza so much with his requests, as well as questions about school dress code, that she called Brownsville Independent School District police.
WTF?
Cameron County prosecutors argued for charges of “terroristic threat.”
How can this keep getting worse and more ridiculous at the same time? WHAT DO I DO WHEN ALLCAPS AREN’T ENOUGH?
ignoring Texas laws which require parental involvement before such interventions
Okay, I give up. Is rule of law no longer a thing? Like people aren’t even pretending anymore?
WHAT DO I DO WHEN ALLCAPS AREN’T ENOUGH?
USE THE HEADER TAG
Say SLAMS somewhere too
Okay, I give up. Is rule of law no longer a thing?
It is and it’s working perfectly. It is utilized or ignored as needed to ensure the right people are kept down.
Laws don’t matter when it is a Republican Official or a Wealthy Republican or a well connected Republican.
Put an 11 year old child in solitary confinement because he lost his father and apparently annoyed the principal with requests for counseling?
This sounds so much like a “must be the US” story
We are running low on villains for Batman to fight.
On Dec. 5, administrators, who had worked alongside Principal Garza, sought to file further charges against Murray of aggravated assault. He allegedly pulled another student’s hair and tried to cut his finger with scissors, which Murray apologized for and said he had mimed cutting the boy’s paper, not his finger. … 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.
This is insane. It seems like it’s really true that the wickedness a nation imposes on another it will eventually impose on itself. It’s especially heinous that the weakest member of the nation (a child) is subject to cruel punishment and legal charges like aggravated assault while the most powerful member (the literal president) boasts about “grabbing [women] by the pussy”, has several charges of sexual assault against him, yet nothing happens. It’s becoming obvious that the law is meant to keep the powerless subservient.
that’s one elementary student arrested every one week? I would not send my kids to school there, my mind would crack if someone locked my kid up like that.
Yeah, America is fucked, and Texas is one of the most fucked up states in the whole country.
Why does the power tripping principal and the power tripping DA have the same last name?
Did you see the judges last name?
So his father dies and he asks his school for counselling and they respond by calling the police who lock him in solitary confinement and CPS threatens his mother with taking him away?
Also, the principal, prosecuted AND judge all seem to be family.
He also pretended to cut someone’s hair
Lesson learned
Right wingers are fucked up in the head. It’s time we stop viewing right wing views as valid ways of living.
TIL it’s right wing to be a corrupt authoritarian dictator.
You need a reality check if you’re surprised to have learned that…
That isn’t new information
Took ya long enough!
Oh, another gem about this situation: the town is outside of Uvalde and the family moved there because it was more affordable.
I mean… it’s Texas.
Kid would walked free if he threatened his fellow student with a gun
unfortunately I wondered the same thing. twobuttonsmeme.jpg
There doesn’t even seem to be any info of the kid’s alleged crime.
Someone else posted it in the comments of this thread, it’s not great. Kid was just being annoying. Teachers a giant cunt. Not much more to know.
The war on potty mouth continues.
It was pulling a classmate’s hair and miming cutting their paper, although at first it was assumed he meant their finger.
“THIS KID IS A TERRORIST. NEED TO FIND EVIDENCE. GRAAAAAAAA”
Reminder that Texas sucks. Republicans suck too. They’re a pox on humanity.
Cruel
Here’s an extensive Texas Observer article for anyone interested.
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So much for protecting the minor’s identity.
The principal that is causing all of these issues is a power tripping psychopath.
She needs to be put in solitary confinement, not an 11 year old child.
If it were just the principal then this child would never have been arrested. Sadly, a lot of people in this story should be removed from any position of authority, or possibly society altogether.
