Kids I care about have gone to these things. Grown adults are showing up to harass - “roll coal” in the kids faces, throw things from cars.

Mustang public schools suspended all children who walked out, with support of the governor of Oklahoma.

People almost seemed to get a hard on at the idea of hurting these children in Facebook comments.

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    Isn’t Tulsa the place where white people massacred the cities Black population because they were doing better than the white people economically?

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    Sensationalized title.

    The fight was between multiple students. From what I can tell the protest still continued.

    FOX23 also spoke with a freshman at Will Rogers High School who shared the following statement:

    “What happened today shouldn’t represent Rogers or its students as a whole. The incident occurred between only a certain group of kids and believe me, all of us students are very upset about it because we just want our voices to be heard. We know how bad this may look for us, but today’s events don’t reflect on anyone except for the students who acted recklessly.”

    Video included.

    https://www.fox23.com/news/local/will-rogers-students-pepper-sprayed-after-walkout-leads-to-fight/article_a0709bc0-0d1b-4710-ac9b-4684dc5e5297.html

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      I’ve been expected to break up fights in the only district in Oklahoma worse than TPS, and I managed to never need to pepper spray or send anyone to the hospital.

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    OP’s title completely states they were pepper sprayed for protesting.

    The letter states that a group of kids got into a fight with each other and that those kids got pepper sprayed after the cops intervened.

    So what happened? Because right now OP looks like he’s making up some clickbait hyperbole bullshit.

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        It’s the schools story. You also damn well know there’s 100 cell phone videos of the entire thing, and it makes way more sense that a handful of kids fighting got pepper sprayed instead of “school police escorted a thousand students out to the stadium for their protest and then proceeded to spraying them all down with pepper spray” or something like that. Quit blowing everything out of proportion to make it seem like some major atrocity.

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              If they can’t figure out a way to break that up without fucking pepper spraying children they don’t deserve to be a cop.

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                  Why the fuck are you putting the burden on me? Yes, they should fucking figure out how do deescalate a fight between children without restoring to pepper spray.

                  I’m not a police officer working in a school so why would you assume I would have training and answers to this situation? Why would you assume I know these answers instead of assuming the adults in this line of work would have been provided basic training on de-escalation and how to keep children safe instead of injuring them? Why the fuck are they carrying pepper spray in a school in the first place?

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      They totally just only did it to the students who were fighting guys!

      One parent is furious that her son had to go to the hospital because of this.

      Monique Goudau’s 12-year-old son, Keenan Pettis, is in the sixth grade at Will Rogers. She says he was outside protesting against ICE with his classmates when a fight broke out between students near the football field.

      Keenan says he wasn’t part of the fight, so he and other students went back into the school to keep protesting. That’s when he says campus police pepper-sprayed him.

      “I don’t really remember it. I was just, it was… it was just hurting, I don’t know,” said Keenan.

      We can definitely believe law enforcement in Tulsa!

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    satan there are very few states im willing to travel to now. Its so funny how the shithole country thing from trump was also projection.

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    Nothing says protest like following the protest guidelines, eh. FYI, you are doing it wrong people.

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    There is very little that a student could do to justify pepper spraying them, and I’m damn near 100% positive this is a case of the student doing none of that.

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      The entire press release comes from the angle of students having accountability for peaceful protests but speaks not at all to the accountability of police to follow the constitution and other basic laws they have been shown repeatedly in countless jurisdictions to have less than admirable compliance with.

      A neutral press release would have also included that the police are accountable for ensuring the rights of all citizens including minors and taking extreme prejudice against escalating to violence. That last part is key, as they have been shown repeatedly to not do so.

      This school board is supporting an atmosphere where unnecessary escalations of violence is presented as the norm and where the two parties have unequal duty to the laws that govern interaction.

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    ACAB. Cops are on the side of the ruling class. Expect to see increasing violence from them as we push back more and more against the Epstein-supporting ruling class.

    For any cops out there, you should resign and get a job which actually helps society.

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      They also groom kids on discord to do school shootings and then hang back on the stoop on the school to let them do it.

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        Hey now!! You’re only saying that because we’ve seen them do it. If there’s one thing this administration demands of its citizens, it’s that you absolutely must NOT believe your own eyes.

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          Yeah I thought that police maybe needed reform, I didn’t realize that they were literally just doing all of the crime.