An 18-year-old New Jersey student with a history of being suspended wrote a rap about cracking open heads and shooting people and posted it on Soundcloud, captioning it with the name of his school. Michael Schmitt was arrested 10 days after the mass murder in Parkland, a time when school officials were trying to be especially vigilant of what students post on social media. More than three months later, Schmitt is still under house arrest and facing a trial for causing a public alarm. Is that just, or are local authorities overreacting, especially given the fact that Schmitt doesn’t own a gun? BuzzFeed reporter Tyler Kingkade joins the show to talk about this complex story.
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