tomahawk6 said:Five foreign nationals were arrested on the Ohio Turnpike.Pictures at the link of the arrestee's.
http://www.fox19.com/story/30551799/5-foreign-nationals-arrested-on-ohio-turnpike-passports-taken#.Vk1bbG3kJks.email
5 foreign nationals arrested on Ohio Turnpike; passports taken
Police don't know what country the men are from...
Journeyman said:??? I'm not sure I understand the point in this topic.
Strike said:How does that make any sense?
Oldgateboatdriver said:Actually, Strike, I think the police in this case takes the journalists for idiots. And they may be right if there was no obvious follow up question to their statement: How can the police not know their nationality when they confiscated their passports ???
You will note that there is no reference to those passports being fakes.
Oldgateboatdriver said:Maybe, Recceguy, but the police did not mention that they were making any verification of those passport, just that they had confiscated them.
The police, if they believed these passport to be false, could just as easily mentioned that the accused were found in possession of "insert nationality" passports, but this remained to be verified. Why the secrecy of saying "we don't know the nationality" of the accused? Could it be these were American passport and the police wants to create an impression of "foreigners" because the accused they arrested have those foreign sounding names?
And BTW, anyone in the law business will tell you that verification of the validity of passports is fairly easy. There are internationally adopted special secret safety measures embedded in the passports that permit law enforcement to identify a passport as real or fake nowadays. No matter how good looking, these safety measures put the production of fake passports beyond the means of forgers.
Oldgateboatdriver said:Maybe, Recceguy, but the police did not mention that they were making any verification of those passport, just that they had confiscated them.
The police, if they believed these passport to be false, could just as easily mentioned that the accused were found in possession of "insert nationality" passports, but this remained to be verified. Why the secrecy of saying "we don't know the nationality" of the accused? Could it be these were American passport and the police wants to create an impression of "foreigners" because the accused they arrested have those foreign sounding names?
And BTW, anyone in the law business will tell you that verification of the validity of passports is fairly easy. There are internationally adopted special secret safety measures embedded in the passports that permit law enforcement to identify a passport as real or fake nowadays. No matter how good looking, these safety measures put the production of fake passports beyond the means of forgers.
HALIFAX — Some concerned parents are reporting incidents of violence involving refugee students at Chebucto Heights Elementary School.
Reports of students choking, pushing, slapping and verbally abusing their fellow classmates are causing parents to worry about the school’s disciplinary action.
“There has always been some fighting and bickering going on at the school but never to this degree,” said Missy, the mother of two children who attend Chebucto Heights. She asked to be referred to by her nickname for this story.
Missy said her daughter, who is in Grade 3, was choked on Monday and Thursday last week by two refugee boys. School staff intervened, but to her knowledge, the students were not disciplined further.
According to the Halifax Regional School Board, refugees began registering at Chebucto Heights, located in the Cowie Hill neighbourhood of Halifax, in mid-February.
School board spokesman Doug Hadley said, as of last week, there were 252 refugee students enrolled in the region, with another 71 waiting on settlement of permanent housing.
Missy’s son, who is in Grade 5, has also been the subject of rough play on the soccer field. During games, refugee students reportedly take their thumb and slide it across their neck from left to right while staring into the eyes of their competitor; imitating the slicing of the throat.
The Herald says Missy's daughter, who attends Chebucto Heights Elementary School, was “choked on Monday and Thursday last week by two refugee boys” and “a chain was used on both occasions”.
(April 10 9am ET UPDATE
The story at the original link has changed and certain aspects have been removed. The statement made by one of the aggressors that "Muslims rule the world" no longer is in the posted story, as well as other components which speak to motive. No reason is given for the edit. Here is the original Chronicle story:
https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/therebel/pages/5752/attachments/original/1460293030/thechronicleherald-ca.pdf?1460293030
jollyjacktar said:I'm sure there will be some bullying going on as that's what happens between kids, but the school district better sort it out with what's acceptable behavior and not with the newcomers.
Jarnhamar said:I agree bullying will happen anywhere however choking someone with a metal chain seems like a pretty serious extent of it. Actually I'm not sure why it was chalked up as school yard bullying and not assault with a weapon..
Reading that story there are two things I 'm concerned about. Whether or not the school board will make excuses for this type of behavior because they are new comers and will Canada start acting like Germany and censoring news stories and articles that paint our new friends in a bad light.
I'm curious why the story changed all of a sudden, maybe the parent was lying about their child being choked twice with a chain.
Brad Sallows said:If you really want action, lodge a complaint that the bully imitated the action of pointing and firing a handgun.
Bullying is a sensitive subject. So is the integration of newcomers, particularly those who have faced challenges, even trauma, on their way here.
Our story was incomplete and insufficiently corroborated, given the serious nature of the allegations.
Readers also rightly pointed out that the headline ‘Parents worried over school kids’ brutality’ was unfortunate. Using the word brutality to describe children, particularly of an identifiable cultural group, is problematic.
Jarnhamar said:Well that's strange. The story was taken down. A note left in place includes
To me that reads kids were beat up but the real victims are the bullies