Kids I care about have gone to these things. Grown adults are showing up to harass - “roll coal” in the kids faces, throw things from cars.

Mustang public schools suspended all children who walked out, with support of the governor of Oklahoma.

People almost seemed to get a hard on at the idea of hurting these children in Facebook comments.

  • ColeSloth
    42·
    2 days ago

    OP’s title completely states they were pepper sprayed for protesting.

    The letter states that a group of kids got into a fight with each other and that those kids got pepper sprayed after the cops intervened.

    So what happened? Because right now OP looks like he’s making up some clickbait hyperbole bullshit.

      • ColeSloth
        12·
        2 days ago

        It’s the schools story. You also damn well know there’s 100 cell phone videos of the entire thing, and it makes way more sense that a handful of kids fighting got pepper sprayed instead of “school police escorted a thousand students out to the stadium for their protest and then proceeded to spraying them all down with pepper spray” or something like that. Quit blowing everything out of proportion to make it seem like some major atrocity.

          • ColeSloth
            23·
            2 days ago

            Ok. Say there was like 10 teens fighting. What did you want them to do?

            • frostysauce@lemmy.world
              31·
              2 days ago

              If they can’t figure out a way to break that up without fucking pepper spraying children they don’t deserve to be a cop.

              • ColeSloth
                13·
                2 days ago

                Ah. I see. “Figure it out”. Great job at an answer, Chief.

                • frostysauce@lemmy.world
                  31·
                  2 days ago

                  Why the fuck are you putting the burden on me? Yes, they should fucking figure out how do deescalate a fight between children without restoring to pepper spray.

                  I’m not a police officer working in a school so why would you assume I would have training and answers to this situation? Why would you assume I know these answers instead of assuming the adults in this line of work would have been provided basic training on de-escalation and how to keep children safe instead of injuring them? Why the fuck are they carrying pepper spray in a school in the first place?

    • andros_rex@lemmy.worldOP
      7·
      2 days ago

      They totally just only did it to the students who were fighting guys!

      One parent is furious that her son had to go to the hospital because of this.

      Monique Goudau’s 12-year-old son, Keenan Pettis, is in the sixth grade at Will Rogers. She says he was outside protesting against ICE with his classmates when a fight broke out between students near the football field.

      Keenan says he wasn’t part of the fight, so he and other students went back into the school to keep protesting. That’s when he says campus police pepper-sprayed him.

      “I don’t really remember it. I was just, it was… it was just hurting, I don’t know,” said Keenan.

      We can definitely believe law enforcement in Tulsa!