12-Year-Old Autistic Boy Arrested For Playing With Imaginary Gun

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A 12-year-old boy with autism was just arrested and led out in handcuffs in front of his classmates at a Texas school after his teacher called the police and complained he was talking to his friends about BB guns.

A 12-year-old boy with autism was just arrested and led out in handcuffs in front of his classmates at a Texas school after his teacher called the police and complained he was talking to his friends about BB guns.

A 12-year-old autistic boy was placed in a Juvenile Detention Center on Monday after brandishing an imaginary rifle at his art teacher,” reported KUTV News.

The 5th grade teacher reportedly felt threatened by the child, identified as David Sims, who was arrested by a school police officer,” the outlet continued. The incident happened in Conroe ISD north of Houston.

CT reports: How hand gestures made by a young boy with autism are “threatening” enough to warrant arrest isn’t clear, but that’s the reason authorities are giving for throwing the kid into handcuffs like a criminal.

They just said, ‘We don’t tolerate that. We take it as a threat.’ A threat? He didn’t threaten anyone. He didn’t do anything but play,” the boy’s mother, Amy Sims, explained to WTTE-TV.

KPRC News added that the boy was only talking to his friends about BB guns when he made the “threatening” gesture.

To make matters worse, the boy’s autism made it difficult for him to understand what was happening, and his parents were not notified until after he had been placed in police custody.

“Being put in handcuffs, not knowing what he did wrong, I could have had a talk with him and told him, ‘Look, I know you like to play guns, but you can’t do it in school,’” Sims said.

WTTE reported that after considering the circumstances, authorities will not press charges against the young boy. However, his life will still be seriously impacted by the arrest: He won’t be allowed back in his school, and will be forced to attend a more strict location for students with disciplinary issues.

This is the problem with so-called “zero tolerance” policies: They throw out all common sense, and turn what is obviously normal boyhood play into a punishable offense that can ruin a student’s life.

It’s one thing to send a boisterous kid to the principal’s office or meet with parents to discuss behavioral problems. It is something else entirely when a young boy with autism is hauled away in handcuffs for the equivalent of playing cops and robbers.

For all the talk of a “war on women,” there is something else happening in America: a war on boys.

Increasingly liberal and feminized schools seem completely incapable of dealing with normal behavior from young males, and have abandoned logic in an extremist attempt to treat tomfoolery as criminality.

Rambunctious boys like David Sims need a firm hand, not handcuffs. This hysteria over imaginary danger has become ridiculous.

Baxter Dmitry

Baxter Dmitry

Baxter Dmitry is a writer at The People's Voice. He covers politics, business and entertainment. Speaking truth to power since he learned to talk, Baxter has travelled in over 80 countries and won arguments in every single one. Live without fear.
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7 Comments

  1. The school police officer needs to arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The teacher is certainly not mentally equipped to teach special needs children if he felt threatened by a child playing. The teacher should be banned from all schools and his children taken and placed in more responsible homes.

    • Maybe I’m blind, but considering that over 90% of all teachers in the US are female…. Where did it say this teacher is male? That’s a very large assumption considering the probability. Are you slinging more male hate or trying to defend another psycho liberal white woman?

  2. What ever happened to leaving the weird kids alone? And if you can catch onto their humor or thought process, then happy day.

    • Why would a predator leave an easy mark alone? This is what happens when international collectivism run by oligarchs is in place and people act as though they think that top is separate and naturally impelled as they are. If this is bad, imagine how kids like that are going to fit in to a social system that combines UBI, social scoring, nice suspect search as a system that penalises for being honest, having the wrong friends, not being as peak with productivity. Which it is fairly openly being developed into for the new sustainable smart city system.

    • It is the worst epidemic. Unlike the ADD trope in the suburbs, it is a form of social retardation. And despite the praise and excuses of autism, being social is the vast majority of the human experience, and the best vehicle for intelligence. Without social intelligence and street smarts, a person can throw away even God’s help.

      • I agree. While I think individuals with autism should not be demonized and deserve respect like anyone else we should not glorify autism like the media and some groups do.

        It is a serious medical condition. It is not just autism, mental health related costs are going up. all brain related problems.

        We can not ignore this any longer.

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