This is a really important. Because we seem to have special education or isolation or specialization for all kinds of issues but it does not seem to propagate to school.
Like the kid who assaulted the teacher and beat her unconscious was living in a group home for kids with a history of violence. At what point should there have been separation?
I get of course the need not to completely isolate and the need for integration into society (especially for minors) but there has to be a solution sought.
A thug who wants to street race shoots an elderly couple for no reason at all.
Investigators say the victims were on their way to Key West, when a large group of people surrounded the truck and boat, not allowing them to cross the intersection. Unprovoked, Marceno says Cruz shot one time through the driver’s side window, hitting the man and woman.
Instead of being released on with no bail, the Sherriff is throwing the book at him as well as any others they can find involved.
Cruz faces 11 different charges including two counts of attempted murder and aggravated battery, shooting into an occupied conveyance, discharging a firearm in public, occupied burglary of a boat, juvenile with a firearm, aggravated rioting, possession of a firearm during a felony and criminal mischief.
“Sheriff Marceno says Cruz has a history of violence. He is one of three suspects arrested for beating a disabled man in a wheelchair in North Fort Myers back in July 2022.”
And I bet his mama will be pleading with the judge to show mercy cause he’s “such a good boy.”
So it turns out that the kid required daily pat-downs at East High School because he had a gun confiscated at his previous high school, and then got moved to East with the condition that he get daily pat-downs.
Lawmakers are calling for more gun laws in response. Not sure how that would help, given that his possession of a gun already was breaking existing laws.
And some time back, Denver school board voted to remove armed LEOs in the high schools. Now in response to this incident, they voted to put them back in the high schools. I doubt an armed LEO would have stopped the shooting (unless he would have been standing there with gun drawn while school officials did the pat-down.) At best, the LEO would have drawn once the shooting started (assuming the kid didn’t shoot the LEO with the first shot.) That would have taken out the kid, rather than the end result of the kid committing suicide after he fled.
I’m going back to this question. Nobody in charge is talking about this factor. Not the mayor, not the superintendent, not the principal – although everyone is flapping their gums about the need to fix things. That high school has had two shootings in the past 6 weeks, and 6 gun incidents this year. Some of the incidents were outside the school, on school property, so even metal detectors or an armed LEO in the building wouldn’t have addressed those.
The question nobody will even mention is the actual thuggery among our youth. And not mere lunch money robbing or bullying, but kids with guns. I don’t see an end to that. In fact, I expect it to grow in our current cultural paradigm.
Breidenbach and Scheel were conducting the traffic stop based on a warrant and to check the welfare of the driver, who has been identified as Glenn Douglas Perry, age 50, following notification of concerning behavior. During the traffic stop, gunfire was exchanged.
Officer Breidenbach and Officer Scheel were pronounced dead at the scene. Perry was taken to a hospital where he later died.
There it is … proof positive … it is a malignancy in society that causes these kinds of incidents. Somewhere along the line over the couple three generations, something has gone terribly wrong.
