That's the reaction Zelda got when she told her students about the 10-year-old Ozark child who was tasered by the cop on Tuesday.
The police chief also defended the officer's actions, but hey, we're used to that by now. I'd expect the local police to defend their officers if they zapped a toddler, frankly. "Brat was coming at me with his rattler, Chief."
However, the students in Zelda's class defended the police officer's actions assiduously, and why?
"These ten year olds today, they're out there getting pregnant! They've got it coming!"
What? You -- What?
"They're out of control! You have no idea!"
(Because Zelda, see, who has raised two kids and is helping to raise several grandkids, she has never met a 10 year old....)
I just got a paper from a local kid, we're on the problem/solution paper now, explaining to me how crime was higher than ever, and teen pregnancies were soaring, and violence in schools was out of control, and drug use was sky-rocketing, and I said, dude, where are you getting this information?
Well, it's common knowledge, he said, confused. Everybody knows it.
They all believe that about the world, which is why they're happy to have the police be jack-booted thugs, tasering grandmas and grammar-school kids, turning the US into Prison USA, dumping endless amount of tax dollars into the War on Drugs and the War on Terror and the War on Sex, and meanwhile not a fucking nickel into educating any of them so that they could do some fucking research and find out that teen pregnancy was actually dropping until Bush started funding Abstinence Only bullshit and have a look at who, if a ten year old is pregnant, just who it might be got her pregnant, because I really, really, really fucking well doubt that ten year old child is out seducing other ten year olds, jeezus crap on a bicycle.
Common knowledge. Ai.
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The tragedy of a child being tased and people believing she had it coming is heart breaking. Even in mental facilities, children who are out of control are not physically abused. Man. I read about how tasers are for stopping subjects who pose immenient danger to the cops and I'm saying a ten year old cannot be that damaging. And for the freakin' mother to say tase her. What a moron. That right there sounds like the child's problem. A mother who would allow that kind of violence to be perpetrated upon her child--who would encourage it has got to be somewhat to blame for the child's behavior problem.
Has our world gone nuts? Do we think that ten year olds have it coming? Or that they even know what they are doing? If they know, let's give them the right to vote.
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