A white teenager filmed firing a gun and yelling racist profanity while driving will only get a slap on the wrist from his high school.
The Chiles High School student shouted about attacking ‘n****rs’ as he shot the BB gun out the window while steering with his knees outside Tallahassee, Florida.
Principal Joe Burgess said the student was spoken to and ‘appropriately’ disciplined but the school had little power to punish him as it was a civil matter.
The Chiles High School student shouted about attacking ‘n****rs’ as he shot the BB gun out the window while steering with his knees outside Tallahassee, Florida
The teenager will not be charged with any crime because a BB gun isn’t technically a firearm so it wasn’t a crime to shoot one, police said
‘You know, if you have enough students and enough people you have things happen,’ he told WCTV.
‘Things are never going to be perfect, as a school we are imperfect people. We strive to be perfect, but we are imperfect people.
Principal Joe Burgess said the student was spoken to and ‘appropriately’ disciplined but the school had little power to punish him or his friend who filmed it
‘Unfortunately there is a tough lesson that they are going to have to learn from this that I don’t think any lesson like that they would have got from school.’
Mr Burgess said there was ‘no threat to our campus at any time’ and insisted the ‘inappropriate’ actions were ‘not a reflection of our student body’.
Local school superintendent Rocky Hanna said he was ‘sickened’ by with video as it spread across social media but it was out of the school’s hands.
‘Unfortunately, we have little jurisdiction over what takes place off campus, during non-school hours, while students are in the custody of their parents,’ he said.
‘Our schools have zero tolerance for bullying or hate speech of any kind. This off campus incident should be used to educate children that these actions and words are unacceptable in our society.’
The teenager will also not be charged with any crime because a BB gun isn’t technically a firearm so it wasn’t a crime to shoot one, police said.
Those who saw the video, including other Chiles High students, were outraged and demanded he be expelled.
‘This reckless behavior can not be tolerated, and it does not reflect the values of all students at Chiles,’ student body president Ernso Louissaint said.
This was not the school’s first racist episode as dozens of students flew Confederate flags on their cars and drove around campus last May
‘I am deeply disappointed and disturbed by what I saw in that video.’
This was not the school’s first racist episode as dozens of students flew Confederate flags on their cars and drove around campus last May.
All flags except the American flag were banned from campus after that, but students were frustrated that no one was ever punished.
‘After really nothing happened to those who had Confederate flags and were using their ‘freedom of speech,’ everyone felt like it was okay,’ Tellicia Mitchell said.
Those who saw the video, including other Chiles High (pictured) students, were outraged and demanded the teenager be expelled