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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dr. Mooney sent another community message last night about the two investigations (by MCPS and the police). I thought the second sentence here was interesting:

“I also spoke directly to our students to recognize the impact events like this have on their feelings of personal safety and security, while also ensuring the students that the individuals who made the unacceptable choice to engage in the violence depicted on social media would be held accountable.  Those who made the choice to video and post this behavior will also be held accountable as this adds to disruption and inappropriately celebrates violence.”[/quote]

Without video, of course, it would be easier to sweep under the rug...[/quote]

+1 Exactly!![/quote]

Those kids weren't videoing to show it to the police. They were videoing to post it on social media so they could have a viral video and get lots of reactions. They should've been calling 911 instead. In the longer video you can see how gleeful the bystanders seem to be, like this was some sort of entertainment. Of course they're not the same as the criminals, but they should be held accountable, unless they've come forward and turned all of their evidence over to the police. [/quote]

I think Mooney's message is a warning to anyone who wants to expose problems in MCPS on social media. It is clearly intended to discourage the specific act of taking videos and posting them publicly.

If the problem is that they didn't call 911, [b]everyone present who did not call 911 should also get in trouble.[/b] If the problem is the gleeful comments, that should have been made clear in the message. However, the message specifically calls out the act of taking the video and posting it, claiming that it "adds to the disruption" when we all know the real problem is they make MCPS look bad and force them to respond instead of pretending everything is rainbows and unicorns.[/quote]

What kind of whackadoodle fascist statement is this?

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you might want to look up accomplice liability in MD. Just failing to call 911 probably isn’t enough. But failing to call 911, cheering on the attack, then running away when police come looks awfully like accomplice behavior. [/quote]

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