{"id":32295,"date":"2023-05-19T12:42:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T16:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=32295"},"modified":"2023-05-19T17:18:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T21:18:29","slug":"lakeland-5th-grader-arrested-after-making-video-depicting-another-students-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/05\/19\/lakeland-5th-grader-arrested-after-making-video-depicting-another-students-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland 5th grader arrested after making video depicting another student\u2019s murder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Lakeland fifth grader was arrested Thursday for posting a video on TikTok depicting her killing another student.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shockingly, when the mother of the victim reported the video to school officials, they refused to act. Instead, the school resource officer effectively trespassed the victim\u2019s mom for reporting the violent threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/file.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ugly scene unfolded at Rosabelle W. Blake Academy in Lakeland, part of the Polk County School District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After Trisha Brown, the mother of the victim, a white 11-year-old girl, brought the video to the attention of school administrators on Monday, Blake Academy refused to take action. Brown pulled her daughter out of the school on Tuesday after confirming with Blake Academy that the aggressor student, a black 5th grade female who made the video, had not faced any disciplinary action and was in class that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After two more days of the school shrugging off the incident, Brown returned to the school, this time bringing with her a May 31 court date from the Polk County Court, showing that she had a hearing to gain a protective order against the student who made the video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After reporting the incident to the school resource officer, Brown left the property. Shortly after she left, the school resource officer called her and told her she was not welcome to return to the school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Frustrated, Brown turned to Citizens Defending Freedom, a non-profit organization, which helps empower parents and Americans who feel like there is nowhere else to turn when their rights are violated. Representatives from Citizens Defending Freedom recommended for her to report the incident to law enforcement and escalate the report to the Florida Department of Education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Upon bringing the case to the attention of the Florida Department of Education in Tallahassee on Thursday, Brown was later told that the student who made the video had been arrested by the Lakeland Police Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy daughter has been subjected to violent threats from another student for more than a week, and Blake Academy refused to take any action at all,\u201d said Brown. \u201cThe manner in which the school handled this incident is totally unacceptable, and the fact that I had to spend the past week fighting for my daughter\u2019s safety tells me that there is something horribly wrong going on inside the Polk County School District. This is just the beginning of this battle. I will do everything in my power to ensure that justice is served to the girl who heinously threatened my daughter\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to representatives from Citizens Defending Freedom, this isn\u2019t the only Polk County School with leaders making questionable decisions. Citizens Defending Freedom has been&nbsp;battling&nbsp;to have violent and pornographic books removed from schools across Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of those books is called Assassination Classroom, where students visibly gun down their teacher in the classroom. After Citizens Defending Freedom challenged the book at Mulberry High School in Polk County, a 12-person panel at the school voted 11-1 to keep the Assassination Classroom series in the school library. The principal of the school determined the books were appropriate for 6th-8th grade students, while the rest of the 12-person panel suggested they were more suitable for 9th-12th grade students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt certainly seems like the leaders within this school district have a history of refusing to take action, and have abdicated their duty to listen to parents and protect students,\u201d said James Judge, the national spokesman for Citizens Defending Freedom. \u201cBut whether they are threats of violence like this one, or providing students with pornographic and violent materials in libraries, schools increasingly seem interested in working against parents. Rather, it seems school officials believe they should not be accountable to parents at all. This is another reason why Citizens Defending Freedom exists, and we\u2019re proud of our Florida team who helped this mother in need while justice was wrongly delayed by Blake Academy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Follow-up story &#8211; PCPS Statement Regarding Incident at Blake Academy<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/05\/19\/pcps-statement-regarding-incident-at-blake-academy\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/05\/19\/pcps-statement-regarding-incident-at-blake-academy\/\"><strong>Click here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lakeland fifth grader was arrested Thursday for posting a video on TikTok depicting her killing another student. 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