Posted on 03/19/2024 1:21:08 PM PDT by Twotone
Six eighth-grade students in Southwick, Massachusetts have been criminally charged for their involvement in an alleged “hateful and racist” Snapchat group chat.
According to Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni, the group chat in question featured appalling language and behavior, including a mock slave auction and derogatory remarks aimed at people of color.
The existence of the group chat and the comments made were first reported to school authorities at Southwick Regional School. Upon learning about the group chat, Gulluni notified the Massachusetts State Police Detective Unit to launch an investigation. Subsequently, he authorized the Detective Unit and the Chief of the Juvenile Court unit to pursue criminal charges against the involved students.
The charges levied against the children include threats to commit a crime, with two of them facing additional charges for interference with civil rights. One additional child is facing a witness interference charge.
"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 in a statement on Facebook. "There is no question that the alleged behavior of these six juveniles is vile, cruel, and contemptible."
In response to the incident, several of the students were promptly suspended from Southwest Regional School. Two more students were suspended for 25 days, and another for 45 days.
District Superintendent Jennifer Willard notified the school community of the incident via email. Willard went on to state that appropriate disciplinary measures would be taken.
"We can assure the community that the District does issue consequences in accordance with our school code of conduct in these types of circumstances," Willard said in a statement. "As stated in our original email to the community, the District firmly believes that racism and discrimination have no place in our school community."
In the mid-17th century, pioneering English explorers moving up the Connecticut River Valley in search of fertile farmlands and game discovered the area and settled Southwick. It became a farming community, defined as the Southern (South-) village (-wick) part of the town of Westfield, Massachusetts
What in the Sam Hill is “Free Such?
This is retarded nonsense. There is no crime here. There need to be real consequences for the publicly employed morons bringing these charges.
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Much less 'threats to commit a crime' is obviously an arrestable crime. Probably get a harsher punishment than actually committing the crime.
This is “Minority Report” stuff—precrime.
Philip K. Dick called it.
Criminal charges for idiotic free speech. That’s where we are in tue USA now, huh?
You aren’t born racist. The parents raised them and you want them in charge of punishment?
I am checking out housing sales in this beautiful burb ASAP as it must be the most crime free slice of paradise this side of Heaven.
If the young ones were given a tour of nearby Springfield, MA they could draw their own conclusions—and you might not like the conclusions they draw.
No hating allowed except against Whites and Jews
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwick,_Massachusetts
This is what I keep telling folks about Massachusetts—among the most segregated states in the Union.
0.5% black
These kids would not even know where to find black people in their town.
Blacks, even those of mixed race like Obama, can call each other the "N" word with impunity, but let a white man do it, and they'll lock you up.
I agree that administrative action is correct but what section of the MA criminal code covers this?
What students say online at home is the school’s business because?
The fascists will use any excuse they can invent to achieve their goal of the suppression of free speech. Yes, these kids are aholes. But that is what the first amendment is for. The speech police are more dangerous than these kids.
If someone hates hate, is that a hate crime?
Six eighth-grade students in Southwick, Massachusetts have been criminally charged for their involvement in an alleged “hateful and racist” Snapchat group chat.
All I can say is I’d tell the courts and authorities involved to go to hell. Their charges are illegal. Unconstitutional. UnAmerican.
I meant to say free speech, my mistake.
Im sure they are all white because only white people are racist
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