COPS ACCOST, INTERROGATE, ABUSE PRO-2ND AMENDMENT PARKLAND STUDENT SURVIVOR OVER GUN RANGE PHOTOS, TIME WITH DAD AT RANGE~POLICE DISALLOWED RECORDING OF MEETING, PARENTAL CONSENT, LEGAL COUNSEL
COPS ACCOST PRO-2ND AMENDMENT PARKLAND SURVIVOR OVER GUN RANGE PHOTOS; POLICE PROHIBIT RECORDING OF INTERROGATION, DISALLOW PARENTAL APPROVAL, LEGAL COUNSEL
‘I was treated like a criminal for no reason other than having gone to the gun range’
Near the end of third period, my teacher got a call from the office saying I need to go down and see a Mr. Greenleaf. I didn’t know Mr. Greenleaf, but it turned out that he was an armed school resource officer. I went down and found him, and he escorted me to his office. Then a second security officer walked in and sat behind me. Both began questioning me intensely. First, they began berating my tweet, although neither of them had read it; then they began aggressively asking questions about who I went to the range with, whose gun we used, about my father, etc. They were incredibly condescending and rude.Then a third officer from the Broward County Sheriff’s Office walked in, and began asking me the same questions again. At that point, I asked whether I could record the interview. They said no. I asked if I had done anything wrong. Again, they answered no. I asked why I was there. One said, “Don’t get snappy with me, do you not remember what happened here a few months ago?”They continued to question me aggressively, though they could cite nothing I had done wrong. They kept calling me “the pro-Second Amendment kid.” I was shocked and honestly, scared. It definitely felt like they were attempting to intimidate me.I was treated like a criminal for no reason other than having gone to the gun range and posted on social media about it.
“For millions of Americans, this is normal and non-controversial. They would properly consider anyone upset by it to be either in need of therapy or a defiant rebuke. Or both.”