In her latest column for BlackCommentator.com, Margaret Kimberley illustrates how fear, stupidity and lessons in capitalism all converged to make idiots out of adults who are supposed to educate or protect kids.
Last month school officials called police who then handcuffed and arrested a 5-year-old Florida kindergartener who was throwing a tantrum; last week in Clovis, NM a call about a possible weapon at a middle school prompted police to put armed officers on rooftops, close nearby streets and lock down the school. All over a giant burrito.
Kimberly makes the case that the system is running out of adults to punish and now must begin the criminalization process at younger and younger ages.
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