Middle School Cheerleaders Made a TikTok Video Portraying a School Shooting. They Were Charged With a Crime.

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• LilB0kChoy@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  In the 45-second video posted later that day, one girl enters the classroom holding a cellphone. “Put your hands up,” she says, while a classmate flickers the lights on and off. As the camera pans across the classroom, several girls dramatically fall back on a desk or the floor and lie motionless, pretending they were killed.

  When another student enters and surveys the bodies on the ground in poorly feigned shock, few manage to suppress their giggles. Throughout the video, which ProPublica obtained, a line of text reads: “To be continued……”

  Talk about an overreaction.

  When I was a kid in the 90s I used to run around our neighborhood with other kids playing “War”. I had a realistic looking cap gun western revolver made out of pot metal, much like this one.

  We never had police called on us or even got stopped by them on the rare occasion they were cruising through.

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  • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    0 tolerance = 0 thought.

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    • LilB0kChoy@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Isn’t it interesting in how “officer discretion” disappears in instances like these?

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  • Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Hell we used to play war with bee bee guns that looked like real fucking guns and yes we could of shot our eyes out. No one said shit. Hell most toy guns looked real. This fascism in action. Fucking ACAB. Fuck the sheriff’s office. And fuck whoever called the police.

    Reminds me of one woman who threw a fit when I was a kid because we were playing with water guns. She freaked out on us like they were real.

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• IllNess@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  By the end of the day, the Greene County Sheriff’s Department charged her and 15 other middle school cheerleaders with disorderly conduct for making and posting the video.

  What ever happened to free speech in this country? Fascism.

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  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It got bombed together with the twin towers.

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• HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Fucking ACAB little fucks won’t do anything of value so need to do shit like this to make it look like they are trying. I legitimately wish death on the police involved.

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• SoupBrick@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is how you create future activists.

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• Sludgehammer@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Look, if we just ignore school shootings and don’t talk about them they’ll go away.

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  • disco@lemdro.id [bot] ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They should ban them

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• cmoney@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Way back when I was in high school in the 90s, a friend made a custom wad file for doom that was the exact layout of our school. Of course this was pre Columbine.

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  • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We had one of those, too!

    We didn’t create every single classroom, we just had doors that wouldn’t open, but the gyms, library, and cafeteria were there.

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• InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Pumped up kicks is still relevant

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