I was wondering that same thing. Do they realize that there’s video? I mean, they must have released that statement before the video, right? Nah, I’m sure they just don’t care.

I am doubly pissed off though because it seems like it was a domestic violence call they were responding to? So instead of actually going and…

I have issues with the wording of the Police report.

“I could’ve took off the bandana, I really could’ve. But at the end of the day, they tried to tell me I couldn’t be me, knowing damn well I wear that bandana all the time,” he told AZ Family. “It was kind of humiliating if you think about it, in front of everybody, me getting arrested and they try to make it look like…

I wish Every student showed up the next day with a bandanna on. Nothing brings kids together like a display against authority.

The other three students who were arrested were taken in on suspicion

Apache Junction exists in a kind of time warp circa 1880. The city has kinda, sorta entered the twenty first century, while the people basically remain in the nineteenth. It sits next door to Mesa, a predominately Mormon city. The black population is 1%. The mindset of Apache Junction is strictly “old west”., as is…

Thanks for the link. I could NEVER make it in todays school environment! I went from 1973 - 1985. Life was simple then. I had NEVER seen a single cop at a school in the 12 years I went. Teachers, the principal, and parents took care of everything. WTF happened that police are IN every school and beating/arresting kids…

Calling the cops on students for violating a school dress code?! WTF?! Just suspend them and send them home! If they refuse to leave school grounds, call their parents! If the parents don’t show up within a “reasonable” amount of time or, when they arrive, they refuse to remove their kids from school grounds, THEN you…

Uh, sue. Sue for your college education. Nothing gets attention like having to write a check.

Holy shit!  Abolish Riverside, CA.

Exactly how it should go. Ask them to take it off if it actually is a violation of the dress code. They refuse, ask them leave and/or call the parents. Absolutely no reason for the police to become involved as they’re just going to escalate the situation.

It’s obvious that they’re making shit up as they go because they can’t even keep the terminology straight. Is it a headband or a bandana? Those are two different things that can’t be placed under the same restriction unless you categorize it all as “head gear” which it sounds like they didn’t.

I mean they’re already trying that out in Riverside, CA:

“I was like, ‘well if the first thing you think of is to call the police then you might as well just do that because it must be that urgent for you to call the police, I must be making such a big scene that you need to call the police so go ahead,’ and then I walked away from her.”

Violating a school dress code is not a fucking crime. The criminalization of Black children is despicable. 

Then you call their parents and suspend them and have their parents take them home. If it’s THAT big of deal.

Next, cops will be called for turning homework in late. SMH

Well, the school’s right that there was a pointless escalation over the bandana, but they’ve misidentified who was escalating the situation. Wish I could say I was surprised, but when every action the “resisting” person does is directly provoked by the officer’s action, no, the “resisting” person is not the one…

Also fuck those teachers for trying to block cameras and assist those cops. 

I got two Tubs on the young man beating the case and the school is making edits to the dress code as we speak.