At least five high school students in Quakertown, located in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, have now been held in police custody for more than 72 hours following last Friday’s anti-ICE protest. As of this writing, authorities have not publicly clarified how many students remain detained, what specific charges they face, or why juveniles are being held for this length of time.

Their alleged offense: defending themselves after a police chief, not in uniform, physically assaulted students. The police assault has provoked mass outrage in the community and throughout the country. A Change.org petition demanding the resignation of Quakertown Police Chief Scott McElree, who was captured on video choking a young female student, has exceeded 7,800 signatures as of this writing.

  • Zink@programming.dev
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    3 days ago

    There’s a reason they call it Pennsyltucky!

    If you embark on the long journey between the Pittsburgh and Philly ends of the state, you get to see a nice assortment of insane religious/conservative billboards and homemade Trump displays.

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      2 days ago

      Oh yeah California and Oregon is the same. The country actually is a nice place to live too bad education has failed so hard out there