The number of threats after a Georgia school shooting this month is much higher than usual, many officials said. In response, some have cracked down with arrests and detention for children as young as 10.

Earlier this month, a detective knocked on Shavon Harvey’s door, in suburban Ohio, to ask about her son. The son had sent a Snapchat message from her phone to his friends, saying there would be shootings at several schools nearby.

She rushed to the police station, where her son was already in custody, but the police did not release him. He was charged with inducing panic, a second-degree felony, and officials kept him in detention for 10 nights.

He is 10.

  • Flying Squid
    4•3 months ago

    What pissed me off at the time (although at least I was a few years out of high school by then) was that practically all of my friends in high school wore black trench coats. I personally wore all black all the time- black trousers, never jeans, black turtleneck and black trench coat.

    And then suddenly kids who dressed like I did in high school were getting suspected of being school shooters and not just weird drama club kids that thought that was the way trendy Europeans dressed.