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The Associated Press: Days after posting mugshot of a boy accused of school threat, sheriff puts video of 2 teens online

apnews.com Days after posting mugshot of a boy accused of school threat, sheriff puts video of 2 teens online

Communities nationwide are being battered by a wave of school shooting threats, with emergency notifications and group chat messages sparking parents’ fears their child’s school could be the next Parkland or Uvalde.

Fed up with school shooting threats in his community, Chitwood pledged to publicly identify students accused of making such threats.

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Since the school year started a few weeks ago in Volusia County, Chitwood said, his office has reported more than 280 school threats compared to 352 in all of last year.

“Something has to be done,” Chitwood said. “Where are the parents?”

Working to support the kids you want to force them to have.
Good on news outlets not posting the perps. Gotta wonder if this is legal (mugshot and posting perpwalk)as they are minors.
- I would be furious it was my kid.
  
  If my kid was threatening to shoot up a school I'd be furious at them, too.
They aren't kidding about a wave of threats from kids. 5 or 6 in my town, both high schools and middle schools. Friends are reporting it in their towns too.

I'm guessing some sort of stupid TikTok challenge.

This sheriff is not helping.
- Springfield copycats I bet.
  
  Maybe. But here, there were a bunch of them in a very short time span and kids on social media were the culprits in all of them. That screams something along the lines of a TikTok challenge to me.
- If this was a recent wave, I bet it was just the end of the summer and some kids just desperately not wanting to go back to school for whatever reasons
  
  Definitely not in the case of this town. School has been in session for over a month.
  
  Edit: There was just no pattern to it- https://www.mywabashvalley.com/news/local-news/terre-haute-authorities-hold-school-safety-news-conference-after-threats-arrests/
Because these 11 year olds are clearly the problem...
- Well, duh?
  
  What else could be the problem? The fact that school shootings must be taken seriously because it's a real possibility that an 11 year old kid could access a gun?
  
  Ofc not. The only way to stop a bad 11 yo with a gun is with good armed 11 yo.
[...] amid the ongoing national debate over what it would take to stem the gun violence plaguing the nation.

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