Phil Lewis: A police officer searched a classroom at a Massachusetts middle school for the novel “Gender Queer,” after receiving an anonymous complaint The ACLU says they cannot recall any instances of police going to a school to search for a book

A police officer searched a classroom at a Massachusetts middle school for the novel “Gender Queer,” after receiving an anonymous complaint The ACLU says they cannot recall any instances of police going to a school to search for a book

The police officer who searched for a book in a Great Barrington classroom also used a body camera. ...www.berkshireeagle.com The ACLU is looking further into why and how police thought it was their place to go looking for a book in a classroom.

Oh cool. So MAGA losers in Great Barrington watch Newsmax and saw the coverage of fake redneck Sen Kennedy reading from the book. Shame on the complete tool who complained and the police officer who violated everyone’s rights. #mapoli

biden won the town 83% to 16%, so it definitely seems to go against the local politics. that said, fascism doesn't care how you vote lol

It's a fine illustration of ACAB.

Some of the absolute worst pigs are in non GOP areas

Reactionaries got to react.

Chicago checking in

SF, NY, and Minneapolis around here somewhere

Liberals love bootlicking

Living under LAPD, so, yeah, can confirm from SoCal. I know SFPD ain't great, I assume SDPD is about the same.

Absolutely.

And who complained to the cops? That's the real question.

I mean what isn't

The person who complained and the cop are likely part of that 16%. That would seem like the logical situation.

oh sure, but thats about as "liberal" a place as you'll find in america. deep, deep blue city in a deep blue state. just a friendly reminder to my fellow new englanders that one cannot look at red states and think "so sad, can't happen here"

Libs are pulling this shit, too, showing their reactionary colors. White TERFs in particular are targeting black history and queer theory "for the children." People can vote all they want, but police still felt like they could get away with it. The 84% don't seem to inspire much temerity among cops.

oh, 100% all the way around

You literally made this up, please stop bullshitting for engagement.

Who made what up?

If you're a TERF, can you really be said to be liberal?

There's the uncritical, reductive definition of "liberal" you get in grade school, one couched in European values and traditions, & then there's the definition you get with social and political context. You're definitely missing something if your sole political lens is "liberal versus conservative."

This is me not crying for fash-adjacent bigots getting their just due. Grow some ovaries.

cops are always fascist though, so vote split is irrelevant

More often than not, police recruit from other states to breed distrust of the community they’re policing.

i live in the area and there are certainly a few MAGA people here and there, but it's been overwhelmingly seeded by retiring New Yorkers and the politics end up being liberal because of that

... and everyone else in the police department that approved carrying this out (that cop wasn't alone). ... and the principal for letting the cop pretend this was North Korea

1: Why the hell are the cops being called about this. 2: Why the hell are the cops RESPONDING to this call. 3: I know why, these questions are facetious.

Tolerance of conservatives breeds degeneracy

Were they going to arrest the book? Arrest a person holding the book for book possession?

Hatchet chop the bootlegger's barrel.?

These are the police we're talking about. They probably just shot at the book until it was nothing but confetti.

No racist barrel rolls or cowardly uncoordinated cowering?

Then plant a gun next to the book and say "I feared for my life."

... and five black bystanders

I find it funny how an anonymous complaint about a book in a school gets cops off their ass. Cops don't prevent crime, they create it.

They hurt people and protect property (that they agree with).

Great way to get all the middle school students everywhere to read that book. Next: police called to search a classroom for a civics textbook.

This was exactly how they won against Professor Umbridge…

If the novel was carrying an AR-15 the cop wouldn’t have entered the classroom.

Police are more and more frequently showing that they don't really serve and protect the people anymore. #authoritarianism #fascism #ss

They serve the wealthy and protect property. Twas ever thus.

They never did.

They went to the Supreme Court to petition the removal of their obligation to protect and serve citizens, so yeah, it tracks.

I thought cops were scared to go into classrooms.

So, the cops got a complaint about "obscene material" in the classroom & rather than asking the principal & the DA if there were any laws or policies being violated, just decided to drop in & ask if there were any dirty books on the premises?

Fuck the police

#ACAB

You’d think next year was 1984

With all this global warming the forecast looks like it's going to be averaging fainthearted 451

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