Milo VermeulenFeb 4
mekka okereke 

Kindergarten teacher called a prank ICE hotline thinking it was real. She called to report her 6 year old student to ICE to try to get them and their family deported.

6 years old.

She does not enjoy hearing her own words and actions played back to her.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zJnkikcrHA0

Kindergarten teacher wants kindergartener deported

YouTube
Feb 4 at 5:28amWeb
Show threadTinDrumFeb 4

@mekkaokereke a teacher

a kindergarten teacher

Show threadJenny FxFeb 10
@mekkaokereke @oscarjiminy there's more than you'd think. It's sickening.
Show threadJackMexFeb 4

@mekkaokereke

I bet that woman thinks she is a good person.

Show threadNormanDunbarFeb 4
@mekkaokereke @JackMexa4 And a good Christian?
Show threadLord HeeHaw IIFeb 9
@mekkaokereke @JackMexa4 In my experience they all do.
Show threadWeird SocksFeb 4
@mekkaokereke WTF!!
Show threadLovesTha🥧Feb 4
@mekkaokereke I'll believe the teacher should be convicted of child abuse because of how ICA treats people rather than her belief she is a good person.
Show threadChuckFeb 4

@mekkaokereke Youch, sounds like the Onion story about an ICE agent meeting his deportation quota by deporting his in-laws. :yikes:

Also, once again, your history lessons on racism are great. I've learned from them and I've made sure people I know learn from them too. Thanks.

Show threadmekka okereke Feb 4

@ChuckMcManis

♥️🙏🏿 Thank you!

Show threadMartin Vermeer FCDFeb 4
@mekkaokereke @ChuckMcManis +1
Show threadMartin Vermeer FCDFeb 4

@mekkaokereke @ChuckMcManis People like that are everywhere.

https://fediscience.org/@martinvermeer/114516000200743457

Show threadFediThing Feb 4
@mekkaokereke The discomfort at hearing it back was so telling on these videos, they want to do awful racist things but pretend someone else is doing them. Presumably that is the service Trump offers his voters.
Show threadSencha Wizard 🍵🧙‍♂️Feb 4
@mekkaokereke she deserves to hear it played back to her and mocked publicly forever
Show threadThumptastic3Feb 4
@mekkaokereke Fucking disgusting trollop.
Show threadMartin Vermeer FCDFeb 4
@mekkaokereke Socratean. One hopes.
Show threadJoseph Leedy Feb 4
@mekkaokereke this woman should not be allowed anywhere near children. She violated privacy laws, so she should be arrested and have her teaching license revoked.
Show threadAnother Jen * 2547Feb 4

@mekkaokereke @JosephLeedy I'm more concerned because I think she DIDN'T violate any laws.

1) child who doesn't look like neighbors exists;

2) child has parents who live at a given address (or, child lives at given address);

3) tell someone else items 1&2

I grew up in the days of phone books, when it was normal to go from a name to an address and phone number.

Sure, adding in the info on the parents' country of origin was icing (ahem) on the cake, but wasn't needed for the report to be just as deadly if this had been a real site and not a honeypot for racist a-holes.

Show threadJoseph Leedy Feb 4

@AnotherJen @mekkaokereke please tell me you’re joking. She used school databases to look up privileged information, which is a violation of FERPA. If I did that at my job (I work for a DME supplier), at the very least I’d be fired for violating HIPPA laws.

(Ignoring your other problematic statements.)

Show threadAnother Jen * 2547Feb 4

@mekkaokereke @JosephLeedy I missed the point where she said she looked them up in the school files. 2x playback on youtube.

But my concern remains: you don't need access to confidential info to fink someone out. Saying that I didn't think it was illegal doesn't mean I think it's right.

And THAT'S what disturbs me: how easy it is to turn someone over to the US's face-masked, pepper-spraying, warrant-omitting band of public executioners.

I'm delighted to find out that this particular person may have broken the law in her enthusiastic persecution of someone with skin darker than neighborhood averages.

Show threadJoseph Leedy Feb 4
@AnotherJen @mekkaokereke ah, thank you for clarifying your statement. I agree that it shouldn’t be that easy to just hand people over.
Show threadJohnnieMacFeb 4
@mekkaokereke one word - 1984
Show threadWillowFeb 4

@mekkaokereke
Horrifying. Teachers should be protecting their students and keeping them safe, not racially profiling them.

This woman is basically SWATting a family because she decided to see where these parents were born based on the color of her student's skin. How many students has she investigated and found they have German- or Swedish-born parents?

When Turning Point is targeting professors who speak out against fascism or just happen to have an identity they don't think should exist, I think this is a case where the collaborators should be made public and pressured out of their jobs. Just like unmasking ICE and holding murderers accountable. Racists need to feel unwelcome again. And all the other bigots.

Show threadRealGravitas -Citizen SaboteurFeb 4
@mekkaokereke This is really hard to listen to. I mean, I know even a third of this country’s adults is a lot of people supporting the state-sponsored terrorism and ethnic cleansing going on now. But hearing it like this is so disturbing.
We cannot sleep on this.
Show threadAlexandre OlivaFeb 4
I haven't watched this, but I worry about people mentioned by the callers. are they safe? do the publishers avoid identifying them?
Show threadLord HeeHaw IIFeb 9
@mekkaokereke A nasty piece of work I'd say.