Prosecutors Refuse to Drop Charges Against Texas 11-Year-Old Put in Solitary Confinement

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Prosecutors Refuse to Drop Charges Against Texas 11-Year-Old Put in Solitary Confinement
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Timothy Murray lost his father earlier this year and had been asking his principal for counseling when she called in the police

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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.

what the fuck is going on over there

High-speed school-to-prison pipeline. Because inmates=free labour and prisons are for-profit. Gotta get 'em kidz institutionalized as early as possible!

This was what they found in other schools too. One specific location ( I can't remember where) the dads formed a group to a) keep kids peaceful and b) because they were being sent to jail for schoolyard bs. It was a largely black school. If you want to look it up with the sad details my brain is providing. Sry

Yep. Also noticed that the principal that called the police and the DA refusing to drop the case have the same last name. Garza isn't that rare of a last name, but it's not exactly "Smith", either. I'd bet good money those fuckers are related to each other.

Wait, that's just slavery with extra steps!

Not "extra steps" but "plausible deniability"😉

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what the fuck is going on over there

Brownsville is 94% Hispanic or Latino. This is Texas doing Texas shit.

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