In August, two children were killed during a school mass connected to a Catholic school in Minneapolis. And four months prior to that, multiple students and a teacher was injured at Wilmer-Hutchins High School in Dallas. Now, the FBI has a Black 11-year-old in their custody after he allegedly threatened to conduct similar terror in his own middle school, and posted about it online.
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Jesse McIntyre is accused of making threats against his school, Campbell Middle School in Daytona Beach… on TikTok, according to authorities. But that’s not all.
Deputies noted that in his alleged social media comment, posted on Oct. 5, McIntyre also named the specific staff members that he would harm. His alleged comment was reported to the FBI, and law enforcement was dispatched to McIntyre’s home. It was then that they discovered that he didn’t have access to weapons.
The Volusia Sheriff’s Office (VSO) says he was taken into custody on Sunday (Oct. 12) and later transported to the Family Resource Center for processing. It’s unclear what he was charged with.
But video of the boy, being processed and shackled around his ankles, went viral on X, sparking a debate that “his face should not be all over the Internet.”
Another added: “I understand detain and investigate— but chaining him like a cross between Hannibal Lector and the Hulk is over top.”
A third person wrote: “Even if it doesn’t go anywhere I hope the experience of being cuffed n stuffed, then processed makes a lasting impression which causes him to re-think decisions in the future.”
Over on Facebook, one person penned: “Maybe [his arrest] just saved his life,” while another said, “Hopefully a lesson learned.”
Within that same week of McIntyre’s arrest, VSO also arrested Spruce Creek High School student Shamari Slater, a Black 15-year-old, after he allegedly wrote how he wanted to “hurt someone badly” on Instagram with two gun emojis. His face was also shown as he was recorded being escorted into the jail.
“The point of these videos is to deliver the message that threats on social media can carry real consequences,” the sheriff’s office wrote on Facebook, with a final message directed to parents: “It’s up to you to drive it home.”
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