School District Notifies Police After 6-Year-Old Girl With Down’s Syndrome Points Finger Gun

I do finger guns whenever I’m nervous… so, all the time. If people took it literally, I’d be screwed.

What ever will I do with my should’ve-been-a-white-dad-at-the-family-barbecue charm?

The Daily Wire reported:

After a six-year-old Pennsylvania girl with Down Syndrome pointed her index finger at her teacher and said, “I shoot you,” the school district called the police.

Apparently the school district contacted authorities due to their district policy.

Were this child’s fingers equipped with bazookas and machetes?

I feel as though I’m missing where the threat is.

However, I guess the teacher is really triggered by guns (silently chuckling to myself with my pun, to be totally honest).

Heck, I remember one day at work, we had Fox News on (well, every day, let’s be real) and a woman walked up to my desk and proclaimed that I was holding her hostage to watching Republican perspectives. She asked if I could put on CNN, I politely declined, and turned the television off completely. There’s a literal, unlocked door you are more than welcome to walk out of.

According to the Daily Local News:

The school’s principal Rebecca Wills quickly determined that there was not a threat and then followed district policy and convened a “threat assessment” team. The threat assessment team recommended no disciplinary action, and determined that a “transient threat” was made and no harm was made to the teacher or any classmates … Gaines then said that she received a call from the principal that police were going to be notified. The incident was reported to police 24 hours later.

Check this out –

A Pennsylvania mom is furious over the fact that cops were called out when her 6-year old daughter with Down Syndrome made a "finger gun" and pointed it at a teacher. https://t.co/da3J6oZ0rK

— Cam Edwards (@CamEdwards) February 10, 2020

According to CBSPhiladelphia, the mother of the child stated:

They get this phone call and I was fine with everything up until calling the police. And I said, “You absolutely do not have to call the police. You know, this is ridiculous” … My daughter got frustrated and pointed her finger at her teacher and said, “I shoot you.” At that point, they went to the principal’s office and it was quickly assessed that she didn’t even really know what she was saying. They were asking her questions, and she was saying, “Oh, I shoot mommy,” laughs, or, “I shoot my brother.” The principal asked, “Did you mean to hurt your teacher?” And she said no and it seemed like she didn’t even know what that meant.