On Monday, Kyle Kashuv — Parkland, Florida’s most vocal pro-2nd Amendment student — said armed security officers had “aggressively questioned” him in a locked office at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Kashuv said the interrogation focused on tweets he had posted over the weekend about visiting a gun range with his father.
Kashuv tells PJ Media that he has since been told to refer to the officers as “security specialists.” He says two “security specialists” and a Broward County Sheriff’s Office deputy questioned him in a locked room — and “the principal didn’t know this was happening.”
On Tuesday, Kashuv appeared on Fox News with Tucker Carlson to discuss his ordeal.
“It was a clear attempt to intimidate me,” the 16-year-old told Carlson.”And they used very, very, very harsh intimidation tactics.”
Kashuv told Tucker that the officers peppered him with questions such as: “Whose gun is it? Who’d you shoot it with? … Is it your gun, or your dad’s gun? When did you go?”
Kashuv said: “This entire time I was like — did I do anything wrong? I mean — it’s still America the last time I checked. I can go to a gun range and shoot it peacefully.”
School resource deputy Dean Seymour filed the following “information only” report, meaning they did not find that Kashuv had broken any laws. His report states that fellow MSD students were concerned that Kashuv had posted a video on social media showing himself shooting a “riffle,” and that Kyle’s mother “Uzi” Kashuv was then contacted about it. (Uzi is Kyle’s father.)
Seymour’s report further stated that his “mother Uzi” said Kyle is “a good kid and wouldn’t hurt anyone.”
The report also incorrectly asserted that the video was taken down; it is in fact still up on Twitter:
The controversy prompted a history teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas to weigh in on Twitter. The teacher, Greg Pittman, defended the strong-arm tactics against Kashuv because posting photos of “assault weapons” is “a really bad idea”:
Parkland Teacher Attacks Kyle Kashuv Over Gun Photo https://t.co/FUI7ilEwk1
— The Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) April 25, 2018
As a teacher from Stoneman Douglas, any student posting photos holding guns, knives or other weapons would be questioned. 4 federal cases have ruled in the last 10 years that assault weapons are not protected. Most gun owners would not hold their gun in this same posed manner
— Greg Pittman (@GregPittman1957) April 24, 2018
Maybe everyone else but this one student were smart enough to know that posting photos of assault weapons for all the students to see after a mass shooting st their school was a really bad idea
— Greg Pittman (@GregPittman1957) April 25, 2018
Montel i am not the cops but merely stating why this was a very bad idea to do for our students to see. Do you have any idea what it is like for kids to go back or teachers in those clssses? Kyle only did it for attention. Very very bad idea to do. Poor taste is being kind
— Greg Pittman (@GregPittman1957) April 25, 2018
Since this did not happen to you, you might say that but if it did, you would understand. Students are on edge snd in fear of another shooter. Teachers are too. Bet you have never been hunted down the hallway. You can’t understand and don’t understand.
— Greg Pittman (@GregPittman1957) April 25, 2018
After the mass shooting at Douglas there is no good reason to post this photo holding the weapon period, waa done in poor taste to generate a reaction period. You are entitled to your opinion but probably don’t live in Parkland so it is just another shooting somewhere else
— Greg Pittman (@GregPittman1957) April 25, 2018
I have enough sense not to go posting my weapons on social media just to get attention at a school that just had had a mass shooting by an assault weapon. I mean really and wonder why he would be asked about it. All for attention only. Otherwise why post it?
— Greg Pittman (@GregPittman1957) April 25, 2018
I have attacked no one. I said it was not bright to post photos of a gun on social media by a student from Douglas after the mass shooting. Students are afraid to come to school. Security & Broward Sheriff deputies talk to the student due to the post. I just stated what happened
— Greg Pittman (@GregPittman1957) April 25, 2018
The teacher also retweeted a woman who referred to 16-year-old Kashuv as a “teenager” insultingly, and accused him of knowing nothing about the Constitution (which she didn’t bother to capitalize) and of getting his talking points from Ben Shapiro:
This “teenager” is getting talking points from Ben Shapiro. Neither Kyle nor Shapiro seem to know squat about the constitution.
— Florida Woman Normie Democrat (@FloridaWoman69) April 25, 2018
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