The Supreme Court will decide if Savana Redding’s school acted properly when they strip-searched her for prescription-strength ibuprofen, each tablet of which is roughly equal to two over-the-counter Motrins.
The search was done on the accusation of another student trying to explain how she came into possession of ibuprofen pills.
Redding turned out not to have any pills in her possession, but frankly, even if she had a gram of coke on her, it would not have justified this.
Michael Daly Hawkins, a thug masquerading as a lower court Judge, said, “I do not think it was unreasonable for school officials, acting in good faith, to conduct the search in an effort to obviate a potential threat to the health and safety of their students.”
What threat, exactly, “Judge”, was severe enough to justify this trauma?
Richard Arum, who teaches sociology and education at New York University, asks, “Do we really want to encourage cases where students and parents are seeking monetary damages against educators in such school-specific matters where reasonable people can disagree about what is appropriate under the circumstances?”
Hey, professor, do we really want to encourage cases where school administers can rip the clothes off innocent students for little or no reason?
Or are you just pulling your rotting liitle pud in excitement about the prospect of school teachers getting official permission to rip the clothes off their students for no good reason?
Prove there was a threat, you assholes. Prove there was a threat that justifies this being done to your daughters. Or yourselves.
Pervert thugs, the both of you, and everyone involved in this.
I hope the Supreme Court cuts your balls off and makes you eat them. In public.
And if they don’t, what use is it? How can this possibly be seen as Constitutional, or remotely moral?
Finally: this happened in a school. What do you think Savanna Redding and her friends learned from this little lesson in Respecting the Authority of the Law?
[Via Slashdot, where I responded to the particularly ignorant comment that "The practical reason for the Second Amendment is that private ownership of guns was necessary to perpetuate slavery."]
For reference: Entry at SCOTUSWiki for Safford v. Redding (docket 08-479), which includes the cert Petition from the Safford United School District (that would be the Bad Guys) and the Brief in Opposition, as well as all other significant documents in the case so far (not many, as the case is just now established at the SC.)