Kids arrested for saggy pants

[rsacamano]

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[Ed Suspicious]

1. My inner and outer old guy wants so badly to say

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[BdAzzSRT]

4. Me too.

Arrested is too harsh - but I REALLY think this looks stupid. An EXTREME wedgie would probably be enough.

[aggiesal]

21. I agree that arresting them is too harsh ...

Maybe if they're told where the fashion originated, they'd stop wearing them.

The fashion started in prisons. The "Boys" would let their handlers know when
they were available when they wore their pants like this.

When I see a person wearing saggy pants, I tell them the fashion started in
prison, and tell them why. Their facial expression is priceless.

[upaloopa]

2. This is so stupid. Their butts are covered.

What generation of kids didn't piss off their elders with their personal dress codes?

[hobbit709]

5. That's what one kid said to me when I said something out his baggy pants.

My reply "At least we could outrun the cops without falling flat on our face"
I knew the kid tried to outrun the cops and got about 6 steps before he fell over his own pants. even the other kids there laughed when I said that.

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. Saggy pants rules are targeted to black males.

Unfortunately, it isn’t uncommon for cities to criminalize people for wearing sagging pants, and for schools to lend a helping hand — a trend that social justice advocates say is discriminatory and targets young black men.

In September, a black college student who attended Hinds Community College in Mississippi was stopped by a campus police officer who said his pants violated the college dress code. When the student refused to show his ID, he was arrested for a failure to comply, which means he could receive up to six months in prison time and a $500 fine. After the incident, the college came to the conclusion that he had not violated the dress code and students protested, telling the college to “stop criminalizing black expression.”

Towns’ and cities’ saggy pants bans have attracted the attention of the NAACP.
The organization met with Ocala, Florida city leaders last year and threatened to sue after the city prohibited saggy pants, a ban that was unanimously approved and included a $500 fine.
The NAACP said the law was “clearly discriminatory” and Dale Landry, of the NAACP Florida chapter, said, “I’m sorry, it’s going to be black males that are the subject of this.” Soon after the controversy erupted, the city council repealed the saggy pants ban.

http://thinkprogress.org/education/2015/12/14/3731605/saggy-pants-school-discipline/

My lil Southern town proposed this law. So far, nothing has come of it, it appears to be sensibly dropped.

[upaloopa]

13. It is another form of oppression

It's picking on people because you can. Because you can show you have power over them.

[Travis_0004]

26. I disagree

I'm fine with a school enforcing a dress code, and I think pants at the waste should be in that dress code.

I just think jail is overboard. If they can't dress appropiately, give them a detention, after several warnings.

[Android3.14]

17. Is it racism, then, to bar open carry on a campus

Because mostly white men carry them?

[dixiegrrrrl]

22. Something the ACLU might want to try a test case on. n/t

[markpkessinger]

23. Exactly. Opaque fabric is opaque fabric.

And I say that as someone who wouldn't personally be caught dead wearing my own pants that way. This is another one of those monumentally stupid battles some adults choose that has absolutely zero significance in the larger scheme of things. It is today's analogue of the haircut arguments of the '60s and '70s!

[jalan48]

3. What happened to getting expelled from school?

Going to jail? Crazy.

[homegirl]

6. Time to spread a rumor

that "low slung baggy pants" are a notice that you are available for homosexual invitations, and action. That would bring about belts and suspenders very quickly.

[Mira]

14. I know you may be serious

but this makes me laugh out loud with it's potential to bring change.
My only concern about this "style" of clothing is that I do not understand how they keep the outer pants up!

[markpkessinger]

24. Oh, great . . . exploiting homophobia in order to settle a fashion dispute.

NOT!

[LiberalArkie]

7. Maybe getting expelled or suspended reflects badly on how the school is scored

where as being jailed doesn't

[zebonaut]

8. Bah. If you want to make a real statement wear your shoes inside out with NO pants

[leftyladyfrommo]

10. I just hate those pants. I keep thinking that fashion will go out of style.

I saw a kid just the other day (and it was a white kid) who had on a long white t shirt with a long vest, black underpants and low slung orange pants with a belt. The orange pants were clear down below his butt.

And he walked funny.

But arrest him? I don't think so. Making them go home from school and change clothes would make a whole lot more sense.

[lobodons]

11. Its a community safety issue

It just is not safe for the community for these people to be walking out in public. They could trip over their saggy self at anytime out into traffic causing injuries to not only themselves, but innocent bystanders and motorists.

[niyad]

12. while I think this "fashion" or whatever it is (and how many decades has this been going on?),

is ridiculous, I am not the one who has to walk in it.
welcome to du

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

15. Your police dollars at work.

If the police have time to arrest kids for saggy pants, it's time to cut down their budget and have fewer police.

[DirkGently]

16. Seems like its own punishment

Still, I know for a fact that fashion crimes are not typically prosecuted in Tennessee.

Free the Saggy Seven (or however many)!

[GreatGazoo]

18. meanwhile the most popular cut of jeans is the one that shows the top of your crack,

or more, if you so much as lean forward. I have seen more butt cracks in the last 6 years than one would at a plumber's convention. Levi even changed the cut of their 505 jeans to show your crack -- they didn't introduce a new model number, just changed their most popular cut.

[SoapBox]

19. It's a style that just will not die.

[markpkessinger]

25. Longevity likely fueled by the undying outrage of older folks . . .

. . . People are really stupid about some of the battles they choose!

[Stellar]

20. It's been awhile now and it's still going on?

When I was a teenager, the guys used to hang on to their private parts, that was their 'thing' during that time. Glad that's over with.