Crimes are divided into elements. Some elements are mens rea (guilty mind) or intentional acts, others are status. Assault on a police officer, train conductor, bus driver, ect, have that second part purely as status. The intention is to make the prosecutor's/government's job easier and reduce crime by adding uncertainty of additional punishment. While the ability is there, many prosecution offices do express discretion on what charges they chose. If nothing else, many know certain juries would refuse to uphold the charges... just as many known certain juries will almost always uphold the charges. Likewise, Grand Juries for the process is the punishment crowd.
I am against the intermingling of police authority with private security. If nothing else, that lanyard with the badge could have been outside the shirt the whole time. The 'out when I need it, otherwise no one needs to know' is creepy. Assertions of full force of the government authority should only be secret in the rare or never instance; keeping the lines orderly at the PTA meeting is not one of them. I am also against status crimes; put the burden of that element on the defendant and call it a day.
I am with the aura of dissent suppression crowd. He was interrupted multiple times, which made his question that much more scattered, but clearly expressed 'Won't the common core destroy the stand out reputation of the school?' ... Next Question!
The board could have said 'most likely, but without the gov funding attached to it we can't afford to stay in operation.' Infantalizing the voters from hard truths is... well, how we get democrats
