Tennessee Police Arrested Him Anyway.
Of course they did. The kid is black, in Tennessee. Once he reaches puberty they'll just shoot him instead.
I wish this was more of a joke than it actually is.
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Tennessee's child labor law allows children as young as 14 to work.
Prisoners are legal slaves and can be compelled to work.
I guess we have Trump's solution to replacing all the jobs after expelling all the immigrants.
Prison slavery is actually now unconstitutional in the state, as of TN's last election.
I am not disagreeing with you, just wanted to point out that the age minimum in the US is set at the federal level, and then the states can further restrict; I don’t think they can go below the federal limit:
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) sets wage, hours worked, and safety requirements for minors (individuals under age 18) working in jobs covered by the statute. The rules vary depending upon the particular age of the minor and the particular job involved. As a general rule, the FLSA sets 14 years old as the minimum age for employment, and limits the number of hours worked by minors under the age of 16.
I would feel more comfortable about that if it wasn't clear that red states couldn't give less of a shit what the federal law is anymore.
Absolutely agree.
Btw, the entertainment industry has also gotten their way with child labor, I just noticed this for CA: https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/MinorsSummaryCharts.pdf
Sometimes we forget that child actors are labor too.
"Black kid?"
(reads article)
"Yup, black kid."
Went back to a TN high school recently for the first time since graduating to do some work.
They had to call local police to check my tool box to make sure it didn't have a gun hidden anywhere, which took almost an hour.
Every single door is locked constantly. Every classroom is locked with a key, so anyone needing to get inside needs the knock to be let in and disturb class. If the teacher needs to go to the bathroom between periods, all the students not already in the class are locked outside.
At one point, I left a door propped open cause I didn't want to disturb the people running lines. The principal, who used to be my principal at another school, attempted to give yell at me over it.
They've also distributed an iPad to every student to act as a hall pass. Except they have to request the pass, raise their hand, ask to use the bathroom, then the teacher has to pull out their iPad and approve it. All of this takes a ton of time.
Starting this year, they only get 3 passes a day. Period. Anymore and the principal has to approve it personally or it's detention. They have nothing in place to make it so kids with intestinal issues can have more passes, and this systems been in place for 3 years now. Every student I talked to told me they knew someone who pissed their pants in class because they weren't allowed to leave under threat of detention or suspension.
TN schools and TN in general is just fucked beyond belief now. And the people who put all these ridiculous policies into place are all currently running unopposed.
The Covenant School shooting and moronic conservative parents having an insane amount of control has straight up regresses TN schools to a worse point of security theatre than post columbine or 9/11. All over a single shooting.
Edit: apologies for my horrendous grammar. However, I'm currently too tired to fix it right now
Wow that's horrible, and has to be terrible for kids' mental health and general perspective on the world. Kids should know what freedom feels like and expect it as the default, and this kind of repression is liable to result in more outbursts of any kind.
The other mandates that police charge people, including kids, with felonies for making threats of any kind, credible or not.
Holy shit is that true? Kids say stupid things ALL THE TIME. They're impulsive and don't understand what it means to think about the future. And you're going to put a FELONY on that kids record???
The world is fucked up enough as it is and now these kids are starting life as felons. Can't get a job, can't vote, etc. For saying something dumb as a child.
Fuck this country man I'm done. If Harris doesn't win I'm working on an exit strategy.
Hell I am in my 40s and am neurodivergent and say stupid shit all the time.
Gotta feed the orphan crushing machine.
Valid or not.
Time to check out the publicly available names and numbers of those Rs.