A 13-year-old boy from Albuquerque, New Mexico was arrested and thrown in jail after burping in class at his local school. Despite outrage from the media and parents at the school, the 10th circuit court of appeals ruled that the cop who arrested the boy and school staff were “immune” from any subsequent lawsuit against them on behalf of the child. Thefreethoughtproject.com reports: The law the court cited in their ruling prohibits anyone from interfering with the educational process. The original incident happened in May of 2011 at Albuquerque’s Cleveland Middle School. After repeatedly burping in class, instead of simply disciplining the child, the school called the cops. The 13-year-old boy, who was in 7th grade at the time, was then searched, arrested, handcuffed, and brought to jail — for burping. After being held in a juvenile detention center for over an hour, his mother was finally informed that her son had been arrested. The boy’s mother filed a lawsuit rightfully arguing that her her son’s arrest was unlawful and resulted in excessive force. However, thanks to the insanity of the legal system, she has no recourse against the school officials or the cop who kidnapped her son for burping. “At [...]
