Zero Intelligence District Attorney in Albuquerque, NM

Read the story below: Tell me if you aren't outraged that this DA is wasting tax payer money persecuting this innocent child! She must be motivated by either ignorance or politics (excuse me if I am redundant). Either way she is an evil person because in my opinion she is perpetrating child abuse in my opinion.

Marks Story:

Back in April, my 15 year-old son had worked on his bike to fix a flat tire. He used his leatherman junior type multi-purpose tool and threw it in his pocket afterwards. He forgot to remove it before heading off to school. After realizing he had it he told a friend and word got back to a teacher.

After reviewing the facts the school principle decided that he would suspend my son for three days. The suspension was mandatory because the tool did contain a small 2" knife attachment which is prohibited under school rules.

Four months later I learned that the local DA, Kari Brandenburg had filed criminal charges under a felony law, for "Possession of a Deadly Weapon on school premises". The tool wasn't used to hurt or threaten anyone, but the DA has decided that anything with a knife is a deadly weapon and that it is her job to "zealously prosecute" all such cases. Her reasoning for the tool being a deadly weapon is that courts have ruled small knives to be deadly weapons before. She fails to mention in all such cases the item was used to injure someone. The assistant DA also pointed out that they had obtained a deadly weapon conviction for licorice rope candy when it was used to strangle someone. So in New Mexico don't let your kids have licorice, lest they are arrested for having a deadly weapon.

It is a very sad commentary on our society when we allow those who should protect our children, to become a larger threat to them than the possibility of violence in the schools. The emotional damage to kids prosecuted as criminals for things that should be handled in the school, is unacceptable. We ask for your prayers in our fight against this outrage and your letters/emails/calls to politicians to let them know your concern over this type of zealous overreaction in criminalizing childhood behavior.

Mark Kuhn