Bro, these Massachusetts 8th graders were joking with each other on Snapchat, making racist jokes, and now they're being charged criminally for their speech.
These kids were holding a mock slave auction on Snapchat, targeting black classmates as potential slaves. They'd also been using racial slurs, sending racist photos, and generally being dummies. And while this is quite disturbing, we also know they have the right to say these things.
For the record, the kids were suspended from school and made an example of, and I hope to God the parents brought the hammer down on them when they found out what had been said.
However, being suspended from school is one thing — and it was obviously the right thing to do — but now the kids are legit being charged criminally … For their speech. On Snapchat.
I'm not kidding.
Six Massachusetts eighth graders face criminal charges in connection with "hateful and racist comments" in a group chat that allegedly included threats and a mock slave auction, officials said.
The group chat unfolded on Snapchat on Feb. 8 into the early morning hours of Feb. 9 among multiple juveniles in Southwick, a suburb of Springfield, according to the Hampden County District Attorney's Office.
Several students 'expressed hateful and racist comments, including notions of violence toward people of color, racial slurs, derogatory pictures and videos, and a mock slave auction directed at two juveniles known to them,' Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni said at a press briefing on Thursday announcing the charges following a monthlong investigation …
As a result of the investigation, six juveniles now face charges, Gulluni said. All are eighth graders at the Southwick Regional School, aged 13 or 14, he said.
Bro is charging 13- and 14-year-olds with threat to commit a crime, while also throwing charges of interference with civil rights at two of the kids, and witness interference at one of them. I'll assume the kids were making lynching jokes or at least something along the lines of "kill black people."
Needless to say, they must take racist Snapchat group chats very seriously in Massachusetts, cuz look at this.
‘There is no question that the alleged behavior in this case of these six juveniles is vile, cruel and contemptible,' [DA] Gulluni said. ‘Seeing it, and facing the reality that these thoughts, that this ugliness can exist within middle school students here in this community in 2024 is discouraging, unsettling and deeply frustrating' …
‘With this I intend to be very clear: Hatred and racism have no place in this community, and where this behavior becomes criminal, I will ensure that we act -- and act with swift resolve, as we did here -- to uncover it and bring it to the light of justice,' Gulluni said.
Yeah, man, I'm glad we are going to the full extent of the law when it comes to middle school students sending group chats. No need to consult the First Amendment or anything like that. No need to actually go after real criminals committing real crimes, either. Just let them out free of bail if you do.
We've got crime erupting all over in this country, and we're spending our time prosecuting 8th graders for group chats?
A real life story from Clown World.
We are not a serious country. Serious countries do not charge children with hate crimes for things they said in a group chat.
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