WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — The family of a Williamson County Schools student is suing the school board and the district attorney for $300,000, saying their child was unfairly punished for allegedly breaking a relatively new state law that has zero tolerance for threats of mass violence.
In the lawsuit, the family challenged the way the law was applied in Williamson County.
The lawsuit said an assistant principal accused a student, without sharing any evidence, of making some sort of threat. That student reportedly raised his hand like Adolf Hitler and said something about North Korea, so he was arrested.
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According to the lawsuit, the word “threat” is not defined in state law, “and the lack of an intent element leaves a child who utters anything that can be even remotely construed as a ‘threat’ vulnerable to criminal prosecution and other dire consequences.”…