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“I don’t understand everything the youths are doing and it scares me and they must be wrong!”
Happened at my school. Kid threatened to shoot up the school. Cops arrested him. Found a kill list. Made the evening news. Superintendent said in the paper he would not be allowed back under any circumstances.
Ten days later the kid strolls right back in my classroom. Lawyer argued he was on the spectrum and acting out. >

sounds like it was a shit manifestation determination meeting and the district didn't even want to bring in their lawyers >

What happens if one of the students on the list gets a restraining order filed against the kid threatening to shoot up the school?  I mean my understanding is this would suffice since he created fear of imminent serious physical harm. >

The courts have ruled that cops have zero duty to protect any person from harm.
An NYC cop hid from a violent knife wielder who had been stabbing people for a day already. Then watched as a man stopped him and got injured in the process.
The man sued the cops for not helping, and the courts sided with the cop saying they had no special duty to protect. >

Joe Lozito, who fought and stopped the knife guy, made a video about it. >

Oh yeah I remember that. I was a regular Cracked user back when that came out.  Amazing how it's still infuriating all these years later.
Almost seems like your best course of action when seeking police assistance is to Lie to dispatchers and tell them you killed the bad guys.
Wouldn't have helped Lozito in this situation, but it might help other people and maybe cause some deserved stress for police departments. >

Tell them you think he killed a cop. >

holy crap that would be a zergling rush of cops >

I’m sure this will end well. >

"Well, we can't really DO anything yet. So we gotta let him, you know, get some of you, er, he didn't even do anything wrong! Turn that camera off! Stop mixing my words up!" >

It's weird, especially now with all the added school security, because when I was in 7th grade (ca. 2007), there was a girl a grade above me who created a "kill list" (probably at that point just Papa Roach-fueled angst, which is why I put it in quotations), and it was handled pretty severely. She had to go to another school after it was discovered. 
I wouldn't be surprised if the decision to let this kid resume classes was due to teacher shortages. >

This new generation today doesn't know how to be emo. They actually act it out instead of pretend like we did! And we looked cooler doing it too. >

God this sounds exactly what people were saying about millennials lol >

First millennials ruined wine and now this!