After fighting it for five decades Mississippi school district finally forced to end segregation. Wait, what?

Courtesy of the New York Daily News:  

A Mississippi school district has been ordered to desegregate its schools after what the Justice Department called a five-decade-long legal battle. 

The Cleveland School District, about two hours northwest of Jackson, was told that it must consolidate its schools in order to provide real desegregation for students in the city of about 12,000. 

Residents first filed suit against the Bolivar County of Education in July 1965, according to an opinion handed down on Friday.

Holy crap! They fought allowing black students into their schools for fifty years? 

Gee I wonder how long it will be before they let them use their drinking fountains?

Texas school districts stocking up on military grade weaponry and armored vehicles. Wait, school districts?

Campus police in other parts of the country

Texas campus police of the future.

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

Taking advantage of U.S. Defense Department offers of free or low-cost military hardware, Texas school districts have been helping themselves to high-powered weaponry, bullet-proof vests, and armored vehicles to militarize their campus police officers. 

A KHOU investigation shows that ten school districts in Texas have been acquiring the military surplus under a government program that allows them to load up at little to no cost. 

According to the investigation, the districts have acquired 64 M-16 rifles, 18 M-14 rifles, 25 automatic pistols, extended magazines, and 4,500 rounds of ammunition. Additionally, the schools stocked up on armored plating, tactical vests, as well as 15 surplus military vehicles. 

In the wake of the over-the-top military-like response by police in Ferguson to protestors, not everyone is thrilled by the idea of campus police outfitted like SWAT teams. 

“We don’t necessarily believe that this kind of equipment leads to students feeling more secure and safe in schools,” said Brennan Griffin of Texas Appleseed, which has been studying police on campus policies for years. 

“We’ve seen how even much less-lethal devices like Tasers and pepper spray get used inappropriately and end up harming children,” he told the KHOU.

Yeah no shit.

There have been plenty of reports of students being pepper sprayed, tazed,  or handcuffed with little provocation. What happens when the responding officers drive up in an armored vehicle?

Leave it Texas to take the molehill of occasional school shootings and turn it into a mountain of campus terrorism that they must nuke out of existence.