A school district and local prosecutors in Texas are refusing to drop charges against an 11-year-old who was held in solitary confinement.

A school district and local prosecutors in Texas are refusing to drop charges against an 11-year-old who was held in solitary confinement.

Officers detained the boy and placed him in solitary confinement for three days at the Darrell B. Hester Juvenile Detention Center. Cameron County prosecutors argued for charges of “terroristic threat.”

Despite being accused of ignoring Texas laws which require parental involvement before such interventions, Cameron County District Attorney Rene Garza told a hearing Wednesday that his office was gathering further evidence against Murray, rather than deciding to drop the charges.

Cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9591073

  • homoludens@feddit.deEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    Charges Against Texas 11-Year-Old

    Um, what?

    Put in Solitary Confinement

    Um, WHAT?!

    irked Palm Grove Elementary principal Myrta Garza so much with his requests, as well as questions about school dress code, that she called Brownsville Independent School District police.

    WTF?

    Cameron County prosecutors argued for charges of “terroristic threat.”

    How can this keep getting worse and more ridiculous at the same time? WHAT DO I DO WHEN ALLCAPS AREN’T ENOUGH?

    ignoring Texas laws which require parental involvement before such interventions

    Okay, I give up. Is rule of law no longer a thing? Like people aren’t even pretending anymore?

  • Custoslibera@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    The principal that is causing all of these issues is a power tripping psychopath.

    She needs to be put in solitary confinement, not an 11 year old child.

    • paholg@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      If it were just the principal then this child would never have been arrested. Sadly, a lot of people in this story should be removed from any position of authority, or possibly society altogether.

  • bartolomeo@suppo.fiEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    On Dec. 5, administrators, who had worked alongside Principal Garza, sought to file further charges against Murray of aggravated assault. He allegedly pulled another student’s hair and tried to cut his finger with scissors, which Murray apologized for and said he had mimed cutting the boy’s paper, not his finger. … Data from Brownsville ISD seen by The Observer showed its officers made 3,102 student arrests between May 2021 and Nov. 2023. Nearly 60% of those were on felony charges and 76 of those kids were in elementary school.

    This is insane. It seems like it’s really true that the wickedness a nation imposes on another it will eventually impose on itself. It’s especially heinous that the weakest member of the nation (a child) is subject to cruel punishment and legal charges like aggravated assault while the most powerful member (the literal president) boasts about “grabbing [women] by the pussy”, has several charges of sexual assault against him, yet nothing happens. It’s becoming obvious that the law is meant to keep the powerless subservient.

    • gatelike@feddit.deEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      that’s one elementary student arrested every one week? I would not send my kids to school there, my mind would crack if someone locked my kid up like that.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    Put an 11 year old child in solitary confinement because he lost his father and apparently annoyed the principal with requests for counseling?

    This sounds so much like a “must be the US” story

  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    So his father dies and he asks his school for counselling and they respond by calling the police who lock him in solitary confinement and CPS threatens his mother with taking him away?

  • Kid_Thunder@kbin.social
    2·
    11 months ago

    Judge: Adela Kowalski-Garza
    Prosecutor: Rene Garza
    Principal: Myrta Garza

    “[Garza] has a lot of people to back her up. She has people in high places. So I guess she can basically do whatever she wants and she receives no consequences for it.

    Hmmm.

  • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    Deep in the heart of Texas, where they can’t bear to approach school shooters, but will easily go after women and children.

  • kool_newt@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    Right wingers are fucked up in the head. It’s time we stop viewing right wing views as valid ways of living.