14-year-old kid arrested over his pro-NRA shirt.

[jerryd6818]

The 14-year-old kid arrested over his pro-NRA shirt now faces a year in jail
.....The West Virginia eighth-grader who was suspended and arrested in late April after he refused to remove a t-shirt supporting the National Rifle Association appeared in court this week and was formally charged with obstructing an officer.

As CBS affiliate WTRF reports, 14-year-old Jared Marcum now faces a $500 fine and a maximum of one year in prison.

The boy’s father, Allen Lardieri, is not pleased.

“Me, I’m more of a fighter and so is Jared and eventually we’re going to get through this,” Lardieri told WTRF. “I don’t think it should have ever gotten this far.”

“Every aspect of this is just totally wrong,” Lardieri added. “He has no background of anything criminal up until now and it just seems like nobody wants to admit they’re wrong.”

Officials at Logan Middle School in Logan County, West Va. maintain that Marcum, who has since completed eighth grade, was suspended for one day because he caused a disruption after a teacher asked him to remove a shirt emblazoned with a hunting rifle and the statement “protect your right.”

“She said, ‘Are you supposed to wear that in school?’” Marcum had previously explained in an interview with local station, WOWK-TV. “I said, ‘I don’t see why I shouldn’t.’”

In a move The Daily Caller can only characterize as courageous, Marcum returned to school after his suspension wearing exactly the same shirt. Students across the rural county showed their support for Marcum by wearing similar shirts on that day as well.

There are no accounts of any additional arrests or suspensions when Marcum returned to school.

Lardieri has claimed that police in Logan City (pop. 1,779) threatened to charge Marcum with making terroristic threats during the incident that led to his arrest.

In legal documents obtained by the CBS station, the arresting officer, James Adkins, reportedly fails to inform the court about any terrorist threats or any violent action. Instead, Adkins asserts that the 14-year-old boy did not follow his orders to stop talking. This verbosity somehow prevented Adkins from performing his police duties.

“In my view of the facts, Jared didn’t do anything wrong,” Ben White, Marcum’s attorney, opined, according to WTRF. “I think Officer Adkins could have done something differently.”

White has previously asserted that his client was exercising his free speech rights by wearing the shirt.

The school district’s policy doesn’t prohibit shirts promoting Second Amendment rights.

Logan police and the prosecuting attorney, Michael White, declined to answer questions.

[tjmurphy]

I fear for and am saddened by what our Country is turning into. There are no excuses for actions such as this

[jerryd6818]

There's not much live and let live left.

[garddogg56]

unreal

[carrmillus]

.................just saw this on fox news!!......what a bunch of bs!!!!.......... .................

[Cutty]

What a crock of horsh sh!&!!!

This kind of crap is getting old real fast. Where are we headed.
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[philco]

His parents need to file a lawsuit against the police department and the school system. His constitutional right to free speech has been violated and he should certainly never have been arrested. There's a word for this sort of behavior by our hired help (public employees), it's called tyranny. Such blatant disregard of the constitution should not, and indeed must not, be tolerated.

[tjmurphy]

When the executive, the legislative, and the judicial bodies of your federal government are against you, there is only one recourse to reclaim your rights as a citizen!! I would hate to see it come to that. obama is setting us up for sharia law, you can see it coming, you can almost feel it crawling into your soul. DC just sent an additional 1.3B dollars to Egypt and they are talking of declaring war on us, we're arming the Syrian rebels who are part of Al-Qaeda!! Where will it end?? Any guesses??

[fergusontd]

Schoolsystems and police just get dumber by the day!!! There's nothing wrong with wearing a t-shirt with that on it. ftd

[griz1200]

Where's the ACLU at? When are they going to help
this young man? Ans: NEVER!!

griz

[Tennessee Dave]

Seems to me that teachers, prinipals and school boards have a lot more to worry about than what shirt a kid wears to school. What a waste of taxpayer money! Teach them to read and think. Let the parents worry about dressing them.

[jerryd6818]

I do not condone the actions of that school. On the other hand, I have sympathies for the teachers. I really do. Today's generation send their kids to school and expect the teachers to be a moral compass, a policeman, a disciplinarian (but don't touch those kids), a sex educator, a mother, a father and so much more. And then we're shocked by something like this when the teachers politics creep into the picture? It's bound to happen and there are no cooler heads to prevail in the educational system because the educational system that teaches the teachers is a liberal system to start with. It's a crazy mixed up world we live in. Maybe it always was.