Police said the student was physically unharmed.
Byers-Smith said she asked police to search the school bus lot, but they told her they first needed to search her house …
Uh huh.
ACAB
Like…can they not do both? A fucking kindergartner is missing - we can walk and chew gum at the same time, yes? yes………?
Why would police need to search a home that has been searched?? The problem is the child ISN’T in the house.
How in the flying fuck are you even getting upvoted for suggesting a violation of privacy? This country is braindead.
Because they’re black, so obviously, they make/have illegal drugs in their house. It’s simple police-math. And they’ll shoot their dog, just for good measure.
I don’t want to downplay the racism that is absolutely rampant in situations like these, they treated me, a very white guy in the same way. My now ex-wife and young child disappeared while I was in meetings. I came out of my home office, tried for a while to contact her, and after getting no reply called the police. Neither vehicle was gone, no notes, no indications of where they went.
They searched my house, my vehicles, even threatened to break into the camper we had to search it when I couldn’t immediately find the key.
It took them hours to locate them, and after wouldn’t tell me anything other than they were found.
Turns out she had taken my kid to her family’s cult compound, I immediately started court proceedings, then COVID helpfully came along to drag that out for years. I now have 50/50 custody, moved us all far away from that cult so she is less likely to take her back there, paid out the nose to get my ex to agree.
I did put my dog in the bathroom before they arrived, cause I know how that goes…
Holy shit dude! I’m so sorry that you experienced this. If you ever need to vent, I’m here for you. I’d be more than willing to “listen” (read: read).
I don’t know if they needed to or not. But if they did for whatever reason, official procedure or what not regardless if I agree, then couldn’t both things be done in parallel.
I was not “suggesting” a privacy violation.
Sounds like they’d rather go on a fishing expedition than do their jobs.
I don’t know man cops are shit but kids are great at hiding. How annoyed would you be if you went and searched all over the fucking county looking for this kid and you found out the kid was hiding behind an open door in their parents bedroom and fell asleep like I did to my parents when I was a kid.
That’d require the child be home, first. Mom was worrying because he hadn’t come home from the bus and no one was picking up the phone at the school or the bus company. I’m going to guess that getting into the house would have been noticeable because calling the cops was not mom’s go-to move – and they proved her prioritization correct by being useless.
But the cops have no reason to think the child is in the home at all? The mom called them because the bus never dropped him off and couldn’t get ahold of the school or bus company. She KNEW 100% her kid wasn’t home, they just refused to take her at her word.
“If you look closely you will notice she is black.”
-cops
She KNEW 100% her kid wasn’t home
It’s ok. The family is Black. They didn’t need to listen to her…
yeah, you act kike children become invisible. I’d say they are actually not that great at hiding and police officers should be competent enough to find one. This story tells it all.
…oof, that’s a bad typo there. Might want to fix that one.
Oh no, the police might do part of their job that doesn’t involve harassing minorities!
How easy do you think it is to hide from 3 or 4 cops on a school bus?
But he wasn’t hiding, he was lost and needed help being found. If the cops had listened to the mom he would’ve been found sooner without the unnecessary invasion of privacy.
The 5-year-old was honking the horn on the bus for help when he was found, she said.
I know, I was answering a hypothetical.
Oops, meant to respond to the commenter above you.
No worries.
Why did they even bring up the other bus getting hit by a car?
fingers will be pointed, money will be paid out, platitudes will be passed around, and nothing will ever be done to fix he problem.
rinse and repeat.
Uhh they already fired the bus driver. Step one is done. No need to go all doom and gloom.
Reading is so fucking hard. Le sigh.
