Florida Sheriff 'perp Walks' 11-year-old After Threatening Shooting

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

A Florida sheriff released the mug shot and video of an 11-year-old child charged with a felony for allegedly making a written threat of a mass shooting.

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"Since parents, you don't want to raise your kids, I'm gonna start raising them," Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood said at a news conference Friday. "Every time we make an arrest, your kids' photo is going to be put out there and if I can do it, I'm gonna perp walk your kid so that everybody can see what your kid's up to."

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Time to charge the parents for this as well.

Who let's an 11 year old have an arsenal of weapons?

#1 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-09-18 09:13 AM | Reply

I don't like cops to put it plainly. This sheriff standing up against Nazis last year actually impressed me but he lost any goodwill that generated with this ridiculous stunt. An 11-year-old?!?! Shame the parents, sure, but an 11-year-old should never be publicly shamed for political reasons. This sheriff is 100% doing this for politics, to advance his career at the expense of a child. Disgusting.

#2 | Posted by qcp at 2024-09-18 09:23 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Drama Queen Sheriff... he apparently needs the headlines to stay relevant.

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2024-09-18 09:20 PM | Reply

"An 11-year-old?!?! Shame the parents, sure, but an 11-year-old should never be publicly shamed for political reasons."

An 11-year-old is clearly old enough to know right from wrong. Given the severity of the threats, I think this is a fair response. It's not like he's being perp-walked simply for using the "finger gun".

#4 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-09-19 07:42 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

No, he was perp-walked for having plastic toy guns and the misfortune to live in a county with a sensationalist sheriff who'd rather make a child's life worse for some good press than help the kid. Every gun in that ridiculous photo is an airsoft toy.

#5 | Posted by qcp at 2024-09-19 08:41 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

The threats were serious enough that they wasted a lot of resources, just like calling in bomb threats.

#6 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-09-19 09:02 AM | Reply

Cops doing their jobs is not a waste of resources it's literally what they're there for.

#7 | Posted by qcp at 2024-09-19 10:15 AM | Reply

I remember when kids used to be marched up to the head of the classroom... then paddled in the front of the class... or worse yet ... gasp!... sent to the principal's office to face a larger paddle... and always for lesser offenses than threatening to shoot someone... then face additional paddling at home... from their parents when they found out.

They were humiliating... but never brutal... and happened mostly to boys.... girls usually just got shaken in front of everyone... boys got both.

I was disciplined in front of the class once... in third grade... it was enough for me.

Of course... we used to be driven around in the back of a pickup truck back then as well...

I remember having to give the school permission when my kids went... seriously... they sent home a form to fill out...

My grandson's generation (millennials) the trend had already been eliminated from the curriculum so my daughter never had to give permission.

#8 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2024-09-19 10:20 AM | Reply

Pigs releasing information about kids should be a crime if it isn't already.

The next one perp walked needs to be this worthless piece of feces piggy.

#9 | Posted by DarkVader at 2024-09-19 01:22 PM | Reply

What you're describing is child abuse, not discipline.

In yet another example of how worthless pigs are, no one was arrested for abusing you. They should have been.

#10 | Posted by DarkVader at 2024-09-19 01:26 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Sure sounded like child abuse to me. I would never have allowed it even back then..

And if I have anything to say about it now then we are not going back!

#11 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-09-19 02:41 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Cops doing their jobs is not a waste of resources it's literally what they're there for."

Calling in fake bomb threats doesn't waste resources? Are you sure you wanna go with that, bucko?

#12 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-09-19 02:50 PM | Reply

The word bomb appears exactly 0 times in that article, -------.

#13 | Posted by qcp at 2024-09-19 02:55 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Calling in fake bomb threats doesn't waste resources?

BullBringer gave those bomb threats a thumbs up yesterday.

The morons of Trumpland are all good with shouting fire in a crowded theater in order to get the Haitians out.

#14 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-09-19 02:58 PM | Reply

You can't have it both ways. What that kid (and apparently at least two other kids) did was just as disruptive as any bomb threat.

#15 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-09-19 03:49 PM | Reply

#8 may be a little over the top, but we have definitely let the pendulum swing too far the other way. We let kids run rampant now all in fear of hurting their self esteems. Then we print articles about how the current generation entering the workforce is has large portions of it that have absolutely no ability to function in the work place. Seems a little more discipline and a little less self esteem might be the right mix.

#16 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2024-09-20 09:38 AM | Reply

I like this Sheriff, but this went too far, IMO.
Parents should be notified, and if they don't do anything about it and it happens again, then humiliate the parents.
Too many parents deny their "precious child" could be bullying anyone or calling in bomb threats, or that they'd do anything "bad."

#17 | Posted by YAV at 2024-09-20 09:56 AM | Reply

If the cops ignore shooting threats, they are nogoodniks.
If they take the threats seriously, they're still wrong?
If this the definition of progressive, count me out and count all the parents of kids killed in school shootings out.

#18 | Posted by phesterOBoyle at 2024-09-20 12:16 PM | Reply