(Copy of my comment posted below)<p>This article is about Brownsville-RGV.<p>Local government there is some of the worst nationally.<p>The FBI has been running a massive anti-corruption operation there for over a decade now that has found corruption from the Mayor to the County DA all the way to their Congressman [0][1][2].<p>It's sad because the people there are hardworking, but because a large portion of the RGV's population is undocumented or an immigrant and is littered with fiefdoms and multi-generational political families, it has been neglected. The principal mentioned in the article is herself a member of one of these multi-generational public servant families in RGV<p>[0] <a href="https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/South-Texas-a-hotbed-of-public-corruption-6886571.php" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/South-Texas-a...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://www.npr.org/2015/07/06/413463836/corruption-on-the-border-dismantling-misconduct-in-the-rio-grande-valley" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.npr.org/2015/07/06/413463836/corruption-on-the-b...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/22/henry-cuellar-king-of-laredo-texas-00010461" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/22/henry-cuellar-king-...</a>
School administrators are, for some wild reason, given strange power over law enforcement (the School Resource Officers) either on purpose or just in practice.<p>I’ve been arrested and taken to a detention center for simply refusing an order to detention without being given my write-up on the basis that being punished without being told about the infraction is wrong. In all, I was arrested and given a generic “Disturbing the Peace” style charge as a minor but, charged as an adult, because three weeks prior I had worn a jacket that was not on the list of school approved colors while in a poorly heated out-building. All because petit tyrants refused to honor the basic human right of telling the punished their crime.<p>These government schools and their seemingly unimpeachable administrators need reigned in as surely as the police and prosecutors. Whether they choose prosecution to cover for their weak egos or out of simple laziness, it’s unacceptable that they punt on problems and then invoke “Zero Tolerance” the second they’re expected to solve minor problems.
What is this flagged? The title isn't Clickbait, an 11 year old asking for a counseling was actually arrested and placed in solitary confinement in a juvenile detention center.
Everything wrong with the US justice system in one headline.<p>That's certainly a gross exaggerating but that went through my head when reading it.
I didn't even know if this was about a case in the US. I just assumed it.
> [...] Garza called law enforcement, who detained him and placed him in solitary confinement for three days at the Darrell B. Hester Juvenile Detention Center in Brownsville.<p>Of all the people involved in that decision and its execution, did anybody even had a fleeting thought of this being wrong?