Kids who make school shooting jokes are likely to face felony charges, and this viral video shows police are taking all of these 'jokes' seriously.
Police hope this video will teach kids that school shooting jokes are serious and unacceptable
In the video, his mother tries to defend him. She gets emotional as she tells police, “He’s just a little boy.” But it doesn’t matter, because making that sort of threat is deadly serious. In a statement, the Sheriff’s Office reiterated that school shooting jokes have to be taken seriously by authorities in a time when public mass shootings“After the mass violence we’ve seen in Florida and across the country, law enforcement officers have a responsibility to investigate and charge those who choose to make these types of threatening statements,” they said.
While the 15-year-old is younger than many mass shooters who have made headlines, he’s still just three years away from being a legal adult, and it’s definitely not unreasonable to think it’s possible he could commit an act of violence like a school shooting. His mom keeps insisting he’s not “that kid,” but the fact is that police have no way of knowing whether a school shooting joke is actually just a joke, or if it’s a serious threat, especially when it’s posted anonymously online.
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