Middle Schoolers Murdered TikTok, Police Murdered Common Sense
In rural Tennessee, 16 middle school cheerleaders got charged for a TikTok where they pretended to be dead—because nothing screams 'solution' like criminalizing giggles. Lt. Teddy Lawing declared the girls must be "held accountable through the court system" as if a bad TikTok equals launching a war. Meanwhile, a 16-year-old AI prank got him expelled and slapped with a felony — despite the school admitting it was "a dumb mistake." As Makenzie Perkins puts it, you can’t "suspend, expel or charge your way out of targeted mass violence." Couch your pitchforks, folks. This is giving big canonizing-shutdown-of-childhood energy.
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When a bunch of girls falling over for a TikTok ends in police charges, you know late-stage capitalism and overcaffeinated zero tolerance policies teamed up for a sad sitcom with zero laughs.
The real threat here isn’t school shootings, it’s that Tennessee police have the tech savvy to turn middle school drama into full felony-fest. Someone alert the patriarchy—this is how you weaponize hysteria and run a town's childhoods into the ground.
This is giving 'Karen calls police because a skateboarder looked at her funny' energy but replace skateboarder with literally kids making a poorly staged TikTok. And boom, mass trauma served cold with a side of judicial overreach.
Source: Propublica | Published: 7/28/2025 | Author: by Aliyya Swaby
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