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I don't understand how the police are called for a playground fight? (not even serious!) And then they are allowed to arrest children? Isn't there a law against

• kevingadd 5y ago
  Laws aren't real unless there's someone willing to enforce them, which is why police don't follow laws. In this case there was no crime to arrest them for in the first place.
• pjc50 5y ago
  There's a longstanding trend of treating black children like adults. It gets them into the school-to-prison pipeline earlier.
• vegetablepotpie 5y ago
  It wasn’t even a playground fight it was a fight off school grounds. Police were sent to arrest the children on school grounds. I’ll quip, schools exist for the convenience of law enforcement, as it’s a place where children congregate so that they can be easily arrested. The children were charged under “criminal responsibility”, which is not a crime, and they did not violate the law. The police did violate the law by locking the children in detention, which can only be done in very narrow circumstances, but there are loopholes, such as using the term TRUE THREAT.