As we all know, the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal is a source of anti-police liberal media bias. And I wasn't there, so I don't have the right to have an opinion about this, the deputy's right to be innocent until proven guilty is being violated, blah blah blah.
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http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110007459
Best of the Web Today
BY James Taranto
Wednesday, October 26, 2005 3:11 p.m. EDT
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Zero-Tolerance Watch
"An 11-year-old sixth-grade girl was arrested Friday afternoon at Fox Chapel Middle School on a charge of possessing a weapon," the St. Petersburg Times reports from Spring Hill, Fla.
The "weapon" was a butter knife:
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The girl, who won't turn 12 until March and whose name is being withheld by the Times because she is a minor, was handcuffed, taken to the Hernando County Jail and charged with the possession of a weapon on school property, a third-degree felony. . . .
This started not because of the butter knife, according to the arrest report, but because of a small, clear-plastic vial with a purple lid that was in the girl's book bag. The vial contained a white powder. The girl told school administrators that it was "glitter"--her makeup.
She did tell the sheriff's deputy and the administrators that she had shown the vial to a friend and said, "Look at this," but that she was "just kidding."
The substance in the vial, the deputy wrote in the arrest report, tested negative for cocaine, and was sent to a Florida Department of Law Enforcement lab to "confirm its identity."
When administrators asked the girl to dump out the contents of her bag, though, out came the knife--wrapped, the arrest report says, in a Sonny's Bar-B-Q napkin with tape around it.
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Says Deputy Donna Black of the Hernando County Sheriff's Office: "For bringing weapons onto school property, there is zero tolerance. It's been that way for years. And this is not just here. That's nationwide." (Hat tip: ZeroIntelligence.net.)
If it's "nationwide," we wonder how Deputy Black would explain this headline in the Tucson Citizen: "Another Shot at the AIMS Test." Arresting kids for possessing butter knives is ridiculous, but would it be too much to ban guns during the administration of standardized tests?
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http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110007459
Best of the Web Today
BY James Taranto
Wednesday, October 26, 2005 3:11 p.m. EDT
. . .
Zero-Tolerance Watch
"An 11-year-old sixth-grade girl was arrested Friday afternoon at Fox Chapel Middle School on a charge of possessing a weapon," the St. Petersburg Times reports from Spring Hill, Fla.
The "weapon" was a butter knife:
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The girl, who won't turn 12 until March and whose name is being withheld by the Times because she is a minor, was handcuffed, taken to the Hernando County Jail and charged with the possession of a weapon on school property, a third-degree felony. . . .
This started not because of the butter knife, according to the arrest report, but because of a small, clear-plastic vial with a purple lid that was in the girl's book bag. The vial contained a white powder. The girl told school administrators that it was "glitter"--her makeup.
She did tell the sheriff's deputy and the administrators that she had shown the vial to a friend and said, "Look at this," but that she was "just kidding."
The substance in the vial, the deputy wrote in the arrest report, tested negative for cocaine, and was sent to a Florida Department of Law Enforcement lab to "confirm its identity."
When administrators asked the girl to dump out the contents of her bag, though, out came the knife--wrapped, the arrest report says, in a Sonny's Bar-B-Q napkin with tape around it.
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Says Deputy Donna Black of the Hernando County Sheriff's Office: "For bringing weapons onto school property, there is zero tolerance. It's been that way for years. And this is not just here. That's nationwide." (Hat tip: ZeroIntelligence.net.)
If it's "nationwide," we wonder how Deputy Black would explain this headline in the Tucson Citizen: "Another Shot at the AIMS Test." Arresting kids for possessing butter knives is ridiculous, but would it be too much to ban guns during the administration of standardized tests?
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