After the shooting in a Parkland, Florida high school earlier this year, the entire nation is on edge and is taking steps to make sure it doesn't happen again. Because authorities ignored the shooter's threats, and essentially allowed the massacre to take place, police are being extra cautious now to ensure this does not happen again.
Since that fateful day, school children across the country have been arrested for threatening behavior. Now, however, a case out of Texas has many wondering if this reaction to fear is going to far as a 5th grade autistic student was arrested for "brandishing an imaginary rifle."
On Monday, 12-year-old David Sims, a 5th grader in Conroe Independent School District's Bozman Intermediate school, was handcuffed, hauled away and charged with a crime for motioning his hands like he had a gun.
The boy's actions apparently threatened his art teacher who then called the police.
"She (CISD Police Officer) just put handcuffs on me and told me I need to go with her," David told
Fox 26.
"They just said, 'We don't tolerate that. We take it as a threat.' A threat? He didn't threaten anyone. He didn't do anything but play," said Amy Sims, David's mother.
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