The lawsuit said those warnings began with Zwerner telling Parker that the boy 'was in a violent mood,' had threatened to beat up a kindergartener and stared down a security officer in the lunchroom.
It alleges that Parker 'had no response, refusing even to look up' when Zwerner expressed her concerns.
When concerns were raised that the child may have transferred the gun from his backpack to his pocket, Parker said his 'pockets were too small to hold a handgun and did nothing,' the lawsuit states.
Quit expressing your white privilege that you don’t want to be shot be a young black child
Why wasn’t a gun in the backpack enough cause for action?
The local YMCA had a huge program for small children. Many of those children were black. I was talking to a Y employee, and she said they only hired the largest black young men they could find because that was the only way to control the black children. The kids ignored white boys/men and walked all over white girls/women to the point where it was physically dangerous for them. But they were afraid of black men/boys who they KNEW would not hesitate to smack the living hell out of them and that was what was required to keep them in line.
My white buddy was a fifth-grade schoolteacher. They gave him all the problem black boys because he was the only male teacher, and they thought the boys would do whatever he said. (Or they just didn’t want to deal with problem kids and used that as an excuse to dump them.) But they told him he couldn’t touch them; he couldn’t threaten them. He quit. He said, they made my job impossible. If you can’t maintain discipline, you’re wasting your time, and the rest of the kids are wasting theirs.
Is this case being held in federal court?
From a caption in the article:
“Pictured: the mom of the six-year-old boy Deja Taylor arriving to the United States Courthouse in Newport News, Va., on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023”
The zookeeper failed to do their job