Autistic 5th grader arrested for playing with imaginary gun
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The offense alleged against 12-year-old David Sims is brandishing an "imaginary" rifle at his art teacher, an educator who apparently felt threatened.
"She (CISD Police Officer) just put handcuffs on me and told me I need to go with her," said David Sims.
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
David spent two hours and eleven minutes at the Juvenile Detention Center. Montgomery County Attorney J.D. Lambright says given his age and disability it's likely criminal charges can be avoided.
"We want to get them turned around and on the right path," said Lambright.
Lambright says the imaginary rifle fire from David Simms was reportedly preceded by a verbal threat and had happened in class before. He called the incident at Bozman just the latest in a slew of troubling outbursts from students in schools across his jurisdiction.
"Right after the Florida incident we were getting two a day, three a day and it wasn't isolated to any particular school. We have six school districts in Montgomery County and they were coming in across the County," said Lambright.
Conroe ISD would not comment on the specifics of David's arrest, but did say in a statement to FOX 26, "Situations involving students with special needs are responded to with consideration for each unique need."
For her part, Amy Sims believes her son is certainly getting special treatment -- the discriminatory kind.
"Because he's disabled, they automatically think he's got something mental, so he might go shoot up a school," said Amy Sims.
The Sim's family tells FOX 26 Conroe ISD has informed them David must attend an alternative disciplinary school for the remainder of the Spring semester.
Without going into who is at fault here this is a sad commentary in so many ways. I and my peers often not only played with imaginary guns but toy ones. The first thought of people back then was boys playing not massacres.
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I get that. We all played with toy guns.
Without having been there it's impossible to really know how this went down.. but knowing that this kid is autistic, he may not have realized that his actions might be taken as an actual threat. He may have just been playing, or he may have intended to threaten the teacher.. or he may have intended to jokingly threaten the teacher and didn't think he'd be taken seriously at all and then the teacher totally overreacted.. can't say for sure unless we were there to witness it. Either way, though, maybe this news story will be a lesson to autistic kids everywhere that you can't do things like this because they might be taken very seriously and reactions might be harsher than they would be for NT kids because of the whole ASD school shooter fear thing.
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Either way, though, maybe this news story will be a lesson to autistic kids everywhere that you can't do things like this because they might be taken very seriously and reactions might be harsher than they would be for NT kids because of the whole ASD school shooter fear thing.
I hope so.
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Handcuffed and hauled way should only be for those who have committed a crime or at least strongly suspected of doing so.
Really, busting a fifth grader over an imaginary gun????
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Boys are naturally going to play with imaginary guns. It's their nature.
America needs to get to the real root of the gun violence problem: Psychological counselling is too expensive in the US. A lack of gun control may be a factor, but I still think that the easiest way to prevent gun violence is to provide people with free psychological counselling and prescription medication. Most of these mass shooters are probably cynical, mentally ill abuse victims who can't afford medication, and have lost faith in humanity.
Unfortunately, America isn't getting to the real root of the gun violence problem, because that would allegedly be communism!
Instead, America is targeting violent video games, violent movies, imagination, and everything else that is a normal and healthy part of boyhood.
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