Mother of 10 year old arrested for letting him walk to store alone

[Carl in Michigan]

The Karen that reported this would have had a fit back in the late and early 50's. My mom would send me to the store with a note to buy her cigarettes when I was 7 years old, yes the store was only about 2 blocks. I walked over 2 miles alone to school every morning as well as many other kids. Karen's need to get a fucking life. Yes, today's world is not as safe as back then but ....

This is the kind of police state you advocate for

 

[rightwinger]

The Sheriffs Dept is quietly offering the mother a plea deal to make the whole thing go away.

The mother is rightfully refusing to accept any guilt and is holding them up to public scrutiny
Let them explain to the judge what she did wrong

Leave them up for a lawsuit for wrongful arrest

 

[Mac-7]

Stupid?

From dems point of view it was pretty good

 

[boevans]

That was her business.

 

[debbiedowner]

This is the kind of police state you advocate for

I advocated for? You are one fucked individual.

 

[Carl in Michigan]

I advocated for? You are one fucked individual.

You are a CANADIAN liberal immersing herself in AMERICAN politics and "I'm "one fucked individual"? Worry about your own damn police state

 

[justoffal]

The reality is as parents we should have that autonomy whether we want to wrap our kids in bubble wrap or whether we want to give our kids a little more freedom and autonomy,” Patterson said.

“It should be our decision as parents, and not the decision of some government authority who doesn’t even know our kids or know our family.”

While I kind of get what people were concerned about.... I have to wonder how many of them would have survived in the 1920s or 30s when walking miles by yourself even as a kid was almost mandatory.

 

[Zincwarrior]

MAGA states are weird.

 

[Carl in Michigan]

MAGA states are weird.

This is an example of a cop pushing her own agenda and not following the law

 

[justoffal]

This is an example of a cop pushing her own agenda and not following the law

Cop ...her? ....

 

[rightwinger]

This is an example of a cop pushing her own agenda and not following the law

Her supervisors backed her
Otherwise they would have dropped the charges

 

[justoffal]

Crazy. I used to do it all the time as a kid. Hell we would take the train miles away. Fucking world has gone soft.

Exactly... No guarantees in this life.
Kids need to be allowed to grow.

 

[Carl in Michigan]

Cop ...her? ....

The arresting officer was female I'm pretty sure.

And it is NOT illegal for a ten year old to walk around outside unsupervised. She's gonna win this



Her lawyer spoke out, too.

“The irony here too is that the next day was Halloween, where kids walk often without their parents door-to-door in the dark and knock on the doors of strangers, and yet [Soren] was in the middle of the day just walking down the street not a tenth of a mile [away],” her lawyer David DeLugas said.

 

[Captain Caveman]

Part of the problem today is everyone wants to get in your business. Yes, report if you see a kid being abducted or hurt in someway but otherwise keep your nose out of it.

Folk these days just want to control others

 

[rightwinger]

Folk these days just want to control others

Cops should have checked the boy out to see if he was OK.
After learning he was on his way home, they should have sent him on his way

 

[sealybobo]

Nonsense

Bush, McCain and the Democrat elites pushed for amnesty

it was the republican and democrat base voters who stopped them

Here is what we were saying in 2006. This is why I love the internet. I could do the same thing with NAFTA. Show you that it was Republicans who invented it and they all signed it. They just got Clinton to sign it. But you people forget Republicans came up with it. And you deny why. So read this and realize, your party is divided. The corporations who benefit from illegal immigration and the MAGA or "racists". But for the record, I think we all agree people should not be in this country illegally. The question is what we should do about it.

We can go back and forth but ultimately, I have to agree we need to stop this. I hope you realize after reading this that we must go after illegal employers like we used to. They are what's drawing them here. Even after Trump throws out all the illegals he can find, the problem will persist because illegal employers will still exist. Republicans say they know where the illegals are. Then they probably know where they work.

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The corporatist Republicans ("amnesty!") are fighting with the racist Republicans ("fence!"), and it provides an opportunity for progressives to step forward with a clear solution to the immigration problem facing America.

Both the corporatists and the racists are fond of the mantra, "There are some jobs Americans won't do." It's a lie.

Americans will do virtually any job if they're paid a decent wage. This isn't about immigration - it's about economics. Industry and agriculture won't collapse without illegal labor, but the middle class is being crushed by it.

Doesn't that sound a lot like Trump? That is what us Democrats were saying about illegals back in the Bush years. Don't forget. It was UNIONS

30 years ago (now 48) United Farm Workers' Union (UFW) founder César Chávez fought against illegal immigration, and the UFW turned in illegals during his tenure as president, was because Chávez, like progressives since the 1870s, understood the simple reality that labor rises and falls in price as a function of availability.

Do a little math. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says there are 7.6 million unemployed Americans right now. Another 1.5 million Americans are no longer counted because they've become "long term" or "discouraged" unemployed workers. And although various groups have different ways of measuring it, most agree that at least another five to ten million Americans are either working part-time when they want to work full-time, or are "underemployed," doing jobs below their level of training, education, or experience. That's between eight and twenty million un- and under-employed Americans, many unable to find above-poverty-level work.

At the same time, there are between seven and fifteen million working illegal immigrants diluting our labor pool.

Between the Reagan years - when there were only around 1 to 2 million illegal aliens in our workforce - and today, we've gone from about 25 percent of our private workforce being unionized to around seven percent. Much of this is the direct result - as César Chávez predicted - of illegal immigrants competing directly with unionized and legal labor. Although it's most obvious in the construction trades over the past 30 years, it's hit all sectors of our economy.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

What happens when you vote for power hungry control freaks.

 

[Mr Natural]

Ten years old is like fourth or fifth grade, right?

Back in the day, at that age, if mom walked a kid to school, he or she got mocked and ridiculed all day long.

 

[rightwinger]

Ten years old is like fourth or fifth grade, right?

Back in the day, at that age, if mom walked a kid to school, he or she got mocked and ridiculed all day long.

Definitely an infraction worthy of a wedgie

 

[debbiedowner]

You are a CANADIAN liberal immersing herself in AMERICAN politics and "I'm "one fucked individual"? Worry about your own damn police state

You are a fucked individual.

Born in Michigan in 1948. Been a republican all my life, now considered a RINO and been to Canada once.

You, live between Ann Arbor and Toledo, Oh.