Body Count

Last February 9, in response to the shooting of Amir Locke, schools around the Twin Cities let their students walk out of school “in protest”.

Let’s be clear – these protests are about as spontaneous and organic as a Nuremberg Rally. The “student activists” who “plan” these walkouts are puppets. Muppets, really.

But I digress.

Amid all the hysteria over school shootings, one facts that gets lost is that schools are generally, statistically, the safest place for kids to be, there days, especially in places like North Minneapoli.

As Minneapolis discovered.

One of their students, DeShaun Hill – a football player and honor student – was shot while walking home.

A court has ruled that this was negligent, and awarded Hiill’s family $500K. I’ve added emphasis:

North High principal Mauri Friestleben was put on leave by the Minneapolis School District for her decision to let students walk out of class Feb. 9 to attend a sit-in at Minneapolis City Hall to protest the police shooting of Amir Locke. Friestleben was later allowed to return to her position.

Hill family attorney William Walker maintains Friestlben’s decision ultimately led to Deshaun’s death. 

“If that principal had not released these children over the instruction of the district… D. Hill would be alive today,” Walker told KARE 11 during a phone interview Tuesday, just hours before the vote. “They (Hill’s family) are devastated… You can talk to a mother who cries every day. D Hill Jr. was loved by everybody. He was the hope for this family.”

Walker said particularly disturbing is the fact that North families and caregivers were not informed about the decision to let students leave early, saying the Hills would have picked Deshaun up at school rather than let him walk home or to a public bus.  

The alleged killer – an apparent psychopath with a 12 year long criminal record – allegedly shot Hill for bumping into him on the street.

So, to sum up:

  • Keep kids in school: $0
  • Release them out onto the street, unsupervised, without telling families? $500,000
  • Remaining at the leading edge of the social justice fashion curve: Priceless.

3 thoughts on “Body Count

  1. Sounds like the perp is a Native American, of which there are actually none, but, I digress. Is that why he hasn’t been called a racisssss by the local propaganda division of the DFL.

  2. Friestleben was initially fired, but kept on as a result of “community pressure.”
    Words fail me. Her poor judgment, driven by racial hysteria, resulted in the death of a student in her care.
    I did a summer of catch-up summer school at North high in 1976. It was bad then. White students (maybe a dozen of us) moved as a pack & backed one another up. If you walked alone you would occasionally get things thrown at you from behind. The best advice was to ignore the assault and keep walking for obvious reasons.
    I can only imagine what it is like at North High after more than four more decades of education PhD’s running the place.

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