February 19, 2013

10 Year old boy arrested for toy gun (with orange cap) at school.

The gun came from a dollar store. It was a cheap plastic fake with a bright orange tip that Nakicha Gilbert’s 10-year-old son bought during a visit to a cousin’s house.
 
“It was a toy,” Gilbert said. “A toy.”

Her son had it in his backpack when he went to Alexandria’s Douglas MacArthur Elementary School on Feb. 4, and he took it out on a bus ride home, placing it in his front pants pocket. He showed one boy, who immediately recognized it was not real, according to his mother.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/mother-of-va-boy-who-was-arrested-over-toy-gun-criticizes-cases-handling/2013/02/17/02c0bf6e-7704-11e2-95e4-6148e45d7adb_story.html