Texas Teen Still Suspended Despite No Charges, Will Change Schools

Re:Texas Teen Still Suspended Despite No Charges, Will Chang... by aliston on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @06:37PM (#10230450)

If you trace back the source for these facts, the source is a tweet referencing an interview with Mohamed's father. These "facts" get bubbled up the chain until they make it into reputable news services without verification. It may be true that he asked, but I guarantee you that some of the critical "facts" you're reading about this will turn out not to be true.

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Re:Texas Teen Still Suspended Despite No Charges, Will Chang... by rnovak on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @06:44PM (#10230494)

You're debating that he was at an airport? Or that he didn't keep the thing in his backpack?

Both of those were reported by the school itself. And the tweet came from a reporter at the CNN.

I'll grant that CNN isn't the best, and has had issues, but for the purposes of this convo, I don't know how that is relevant (it's not like anything you or I say is going to matter to anyone anyway).

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Re:Texas Teen Still Suspended Despite No Charges, Will Chang... by DanBC on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @06:42PM (#10230485)

The critical facts are:

1) He took a clock to school

2) He got arrested

3) He got suspended

That alone should be sufficient to cause anger. US isn't a crime free zone. Why aren't police spending time dealing with real actual crime?

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Re:Texas Teen Still Suspended Despite No Charges, Will Chang... by aliston on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @07:09PM (#10230595)

These are not the critical facts. The news media wants you to be outraged because it drives eyeballs. That's why it is in their interest to write the story in such a way that you think these are the critical facts.

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