Alabama 6-Year-Old Suspended for Using ‘Finger Guns’ During Cops and Robbers Game

An attorney for the boy’s father said the game was “age-appropriate play for two young boys.”
Alabama 6-Year-Old Suspended for Using ‘Finger Guns’ During Cops and Robbers Game
The shadows of three children playing on swings on June 7, 2022. Badru Katumba/AFP via Getty Images
Michael Clements
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It’s become a cliché that when a student breaks a rule, a teacher or administrator may threaten them with punishment that will remain on their “permanent record.” But for one Alabama 6-year-old, that threat seems plausible, and the child’s father is not having any of it.

“They labeled my six-year-old as a potentially violent and dangerous student because he was being a little boy and playing cops and robbers with another student (who was also suspended) and using his fingers like a gun,” Jarrod Belcher, the boy’s father, wrote in a statement released Friday, Sept. 8.

Michael Clements
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Michael Clements is an award-winning Epoch Times reporter covering the Second Amendment and individual rights. Mr. Clements has 30 years of experience in media and has worked for outlets including The Monroe Journal, The Panama City News Herald, The Alexander City Outlook, The Galveston County Daily News, The Texas City Sun, The Daily Court Review,
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