3 Maryland middle-schoolers charged with antisemitic hate crime

[Jilly_in_VA]

Three students at a southern Maryland middle school have been charged with hate-crime violations in connection with acts that included Nazi salutes, the Calvert County state’s attorney said.

The students, all 13 years old, attend Plum Point Middle School in Calvert, according to a statement posted by the office of the prosecutor, Robert Harvey.

The statement said they have also been charged with harassment.

The students “displayed swastikas, made Nazi salutes, and directed offensive comments to a classmate because of the classmate’s religious beliefs,” the prosecutor’s statement said, quoting charging documents.

The students were charged as juveniles and were not named, the prosecutor’s office said. The offensive comments were not describedThe statement said they have also been charged with harassment.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/03/25/maryland-students-charged-hate-crime/

"You've got to be carefully taught..."

[Tommy Carcetti]

1. Unfortunately, this is the same district where there was racist graffiti written on a school football field in 2020

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/calvert-county-football-field-racist-graffiti-suspects-ided-sheriffs-office-says

Calvert County football field racist graffiti suspects IDed, sheriff’s office says
Published August 11, 2020 2:44pm EDTNewsFOX 5 DC

PRINCE FREDERICK, Md. - The Calvert County sheriff’s office says it has identified five 18-year-old suspects in connection with racist slurs spray painted on a local football field.

The sheriff’s office began investigating Sunday around 5 p.m. when the vandalism at Calvert High School in Prince Frederick was reported.

In addition to the slurs, they say an outdoor classroom was broken into and vandalized, and other areas of the school were vandalized and sprayed with graffiti.

The local Board of Education is actually a fairly reasonable and rational body, adopting a strong anti-racism policy after the graffiti incident.

But three of the school board seats are up for election in November, with Republican-supported candidates in each of those races (even though it's technically a non-partisan seat) highly critical of the anti-racism policy as well as supportive of things such as book restrictions in school libraries.

[Happy Hoosier]

2. I lived in Calvert County fro a couple years....

Lots of expesnsive commuter developments, and lots of SoMD good ole boys.

[aeromanKC]

3. Their parents must be very proud.

Actually, they probably are.