Florida Teen Expelled and Arrested For Science Experiment

First time accepted submitter ruhri writes "A 16 year-old girl in Florida not only has been expelled from her high school but also is being charged as an adult with a felony after replicating the classic toilet-bowl cleaner and aluminum foil experiment. This has quite a number of scientists and science educators up in arms. The fact that she's African American and that the same assistant state attorney has decided not to charge a white teenager who accidentally killed his brother with a BB gun has some thinking whether this is a case of doing science while black."

Re:Florida

[Anonymous Coward]

At least it wasn't "your an idiot".

Re:Playing the race card again

[CaseCrash]

Proportionality. That's what the kid with a BB gun has to do with this. An accidental death caused by a white boy gets no punishment. An accidental chemical hazard that kills no one, but is caused by a black girl gets charged with felonies. That's disproportionate. What exactly is the non-racist explanation for that lack of proportionality?

Maybe they're just sexist?

Re:Weapon

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh sure, let the kid have his pastry, then the next thing you know, he's lunging at you with a banana.

Re:Florida

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey now, we disowned Florida a long time ago.

You stop holding the rest of the South accountable for Florida, and we'll forgive you for New Jersey.

Re:Playing the race card again

[ObsessiveMathsFreak]

What exactly is the non-racist explanation for that lack of proportionality?

The BB gun kid was excercising his American right to hold arms; The science student was engaged in an act of Godless, materialist alchemy.

Re:Florida

[MickyTheIdiot]

Gallagher said in one of his specials:

"I like the shape of Florida. It looks like we're pissing on Cuba."

Perhaps it was the only time Gallagher has ever been funny.

Re:Playing the race card again

[Stuarticus]

Have you ever studied the chemistry? The whole point is making explosions on school property.

Re:Playing the race card again

[Stuarticus]

Was it your grammar made her despise you so?

Re:Playing the race card again

[tmosley]

I bet you're fun at parties.

Re:Lets not

[tmosley]

What odd and medieval country do you live in where murder can only be prosecuted if there is someone to complain about it?

Re:Playing the race card again

[TFAFalcon]

Can what she did even be classified as an explosion? The reactions seem to be pretty slow and the 'explosion' happens because they are trapped in a small space. So are we also going to charge people who leave bottles of water in freezers with felonies when those bottles 'explode'? What about kids stomping on closed, air filled milk cartons? Just imagine the damage the cap from one of those cartons could do.