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The 14-year-old, who has been named locally as Logan Clark, was captured on camera wielding a large blade at fellow students at Procter R. Hug High School in Reno, Nevada, before refusing to put it down.
He was then shot by a school police officer after he failed to follow orders and is currently in a critical condition in a Reno hospital.
Earlier, one high school freshman Robert Barragan first told the Reno Gazette-Journal that an officer shot a student in the shoulder after the teen pulled a knife and stabbed a classmate during a confrontation outside the school library.
Barragan, told the Gazette-Journal that two male students were fighting outside the school library when the campus officer shot the knife wielding teenager.
However there were no reported injuries other than to the teenager with the knife.
'To idiots that think Logan was wrong know he was being bullied he is not the kind to back down.
'He brought the knives because he was gonna b jumped and he was the school knew of this and failed to act.' (sic)
One of the parents, Demick Laflamme claimed his son Demick Jr was a friend of the wounded student.
And he told the Reno-Gazette Journal that he believed that Logan had been bullied in the days leading up to the incident.
originally posted by: WUNK22
Ohhhh well......don't bring a knife to school!
originally posted by: HawkeyeNation
Wrong...
...he didn't have to grab a knife and possibly kill someone.
However I don't necessarily blame the kid for the action he did take. Some cases of bullying are a lot worse than others.
originally posted by: MysticPearl
I was a victim of serious bulling as a kid in school. Didn't resort to bringing a knife to school though. Any while my parents knew about, what are parents supposed to do? Keep their kid home from school?
Bullying while not pleasant is a reality of growing up. Learning how to deal with it and standing up for yourself(without using a knife) is also a part of growing up.
originally posted by: SpongeBeard
originally posted by: MysticPearl
I was a victim of serious bulling as a kid in school. Didn't resort to bringing a knife to school though. Any while my parents knew about, what are parents supposed to do? Keep their kid home from school?
Bullying while not pleasant is a reality of growing up. Learning how to deal with it and standing up for yourself(without using a knife) is also a part of growing up.
Eh? They're supposed to do what family does.
My group of bullies got the scare of their #ing life when 8 of my family members showed up at the school ready to beat the everliving # out of them. Wasn't an issue after that.
originally posted by: Boadicea
What exactly is wrong? That the kid had been bullied? That adults knew about it? That they did nothing? That the kid acted on instinct to protect himself?
You said he had no other choice which that is what I was saying is wrong. He didn't have to grab a knife. It's hard to judge a kid in today's age because it's just way different then it was for me. So I won't come down to hard on the kid.edit on 8-12-2016 by HawkeyeNation because: (no reason given)
originally posted by: MysticPearl
...what are parents supposed to do? Keep their kid home from school?
Bullying while not pleasant is a reality of growing up. Learning how to deal with it and standing up for yourself(without using a knife) is also a part of growing up.
originally posted by: Zerodoublehero
originally posted by: SpongeBeard
originally posted by: MysticPearl
I was a victim of serious bulling as a kid in school. Didn't resort to bringing a knife to school though. Any while my parents knew about, what are parents supposed to do? Keep their kid home from school?
Bullying while not pleasant is a reality of growing up. Learning how to deal with it and standing up for yourself(without using a knife) is also a part of growing up.
Eh? They're supposed to do what family does.
My group of bullies got the scare of their #ing life when 8 of my family members showed up at the school ready to beat the everliving # out of them. Wasn't an issue after that.
Right because im sure his dad is ready to go to jail over beating up some 15 year old punk.
originally posted by: Jahari
Seems to me everyone involved were wrong but the villain will forever be the kid with the knife.