Darnell Dynasty Young, Gay Student, Uses Stun Gun On Bullies, Faces Expulsion
Darnell “Dynasty” Young, a 17-year-old gay student at Arsenal Tech High School in Indianapolis, Ind., could be expelled after he used a stun gun on bullies he says were about to beat him up.
The teenager spoke to The Indianapolis Star about his bullying ordeal, discussung how he was regularly the target of homophobic remarks. Classmates, claims Young, even threw rocks at him, while mocking his flamboyant dress sense. Chelisa Grimes, Young’s mother, says the school let her son down, essentially placing the blame on Darnell for being “openly gay.”
When six students allegedly surrounded Young on April 16 and threatened to harm the teen, Young produced a stun gun given to him by his mother, and fired it in the air to ward off the students. The scene ended with Young being handcuffed by police, and he now faces a hearing that will decide his future at the school.
This case is deeply similar to a predicament earlier in April, when a 10-year-old male student in Cincinnati, Ohio brought a BB gun to school to scare bullies who reportedly teased him about his ankle braces.
And in March, Asante Cotman, a junior at Charles City High School in Charles City County, Va., refused school officials’ order to remove the high heels he was wearing. He was suspended for three days and later told WWBT-TV:
“I’m not advertising. I’m being myself. I want to be able to be a regular student. A gay regular student that attends CCHS.”
In Cotman’s case, the school said Cotman’s heels presented a safety issue, and that the same rule would have applied to any student with such footwear, regardless of gender or orientation.
[Via The Indianpolis Star]
Tags : bullying, darnell dynasty young, darnell dynasty young stun gun, Gay Hate, Hate Speech, homophobia, Homosexual
Posted: May 8, 2012
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May 8, 2012
Excuse me but, I'd like to give this mother one million dollars! Her son was surrounded by bullies and all he did was shoot the stun gun in the air. Must give that boy a hand because I would have aimed it at their as^#!
It's so sad that these schools can not protect our children from bullies. Even sadder that some parents don't talk with their children about being bullies. Mine would be too afraid to bully anyone because of the consequences they would face at home!
May 8, 2012
Give this MOM a hand. The school was not helping him, she did what she had to do.
May 8, 2012
what do they expect him and his mother to do? Nothing? And then wait until those bullies beat him down? The school doesn't do anything to help him so he's just supposed to take it? I say that kid had the right to protect himself. The bullies were lucky he didn't actually use it on them.
May 8, 2012
School system is pretty much useless! I mean we got non profit organizations trying to eliminate bulling! I would have given my kid two of them! smh!
May 8, 2012
now we need to arm all of the kids in school ;hey we have to protect our own just in case this kid flips out….and another thing,, the laws frobid any kind of wepon in school,, so why do you all want to give this mom a million dollars for breaking the rules? ya'll dumb and dummer!
May 8, 2012
I'd like to know more about what the school did or did not do and what the mother and young man had reported to the school. given the circumstances as briefly described, I'd probably do the same thing. I'd take my chances with my child's education but not with his life. mom was protecting her kid. she didn't send him with a gun but a stun gun. dangerous but not likely lethal. and he fired it in the air -I'd have aimed at the crotch.
good luck Dynasty. you got a good mom behind you – you'll be ok no matter what happens!
May 8, 2012
actually it's "dumber"
May 8, 2012
it's a good and bad. good: he can sort of defend himself. bad: another group of boys might be smarter, mob him, take the stun gun away and use it on him.