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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Police charged Griest with misdemeanor counts of terroristic threats, simple assault, recklessly endangering another person, and related charges.

Wtf? Cops just slap terrorism charges on every chance they get, huh?

Don't get me wrong, the guy is a piece of shit, but terrorism? That's not what happened here and they know it!

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 37 points 10 months ago (2 children)

"Terroristic threats" is a ridiculously common charge against school age children. Dozens of 10 year olds are charged with it every month in Texas

Based on an analysis of district juvenile justice referral data we received from Brownsville ISD, the district police made 3,102 student arrests over a period of roughly two and half years from May 2021 to November 2023. That’s 135 arrests per month in the school year. Fifty-nine percent of those arrests were for felony changes.

Of those arrests, 3.5 percent were for elementary school-aged children. From the beginning of the prior school year to November 3 this year, there have been 76 arrests of students 10 to 11 years old. Charges for terroristic threats accounted for 20 percent of those arrests. Most, 66 percent, were felony charges. There were no charges for aggravated assault for this age group.

[–] Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The devil must be so, so proud of Texas right now.

[–] Retrograde@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Right? What a heaping pile of shit that state is

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Holy fuck! Fucking bastards! 🤬

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago

I know! Who’d’ve thought there were so many terrorists in 6th grade.

[–] xor@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

first they made terrorism the biggest problem in the world, declared war on it, made tons of draconian laws against it... and then they changed what the word means.
btw, check out the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, which makes it "terrorism" to work at a job with livestock and then secretly film the abuse other people do to them.
in some states, that is "legally" terrorism.
(its illegally, but good luck appealing that when you're in a guantanamo style blacksite somewhere, being force fed rectally)

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I'd call it Orwellian, but that's more fucked up than anything Orwell ever imagined! 🤬