A Maryland mother is angry after police showed up at her home to investigate a complaint from her son’s school after an administrator saw BB guns in his bedroom during a virtual class.
Courtney Lancaster says she was doing school work with her son during the lockdown when police showed up at their door.
She tells Maryland’s WBFF-TV that they:
“explained to me that he was here to search for weapons, in my home. And I consented to let him in. And then I, unfortunately, stood there and watched police officers enter my 11-year-old son's bedroom...I thought, this is outrageous. This is despicable.I had no idea what in the world could this be over? BB guns never even once entered my mind. How many 11-year-old boys have BB guns?”
She says she was told someone had seen the BB guns in her son’s bedroom during a Google Meet class on his laptop.
Since that day, she has written school administrators, the superintendent and the school board, demanding answers. She says the principal initially compared bringing a weapon to a virtual class to bringing a gun to school.
Officials with Baltimore County schools have refused comments, saying they do not “debate individual circumstances through the media.”
Lancaster adds, “if my son is sitting at the kitchen island next to a butcher block, does that constitute a weapon? It's not allowed at school, right? So, would my home then be searched because he's sitting next to a butcher block.I feel like parents need to be made aware of what the implications are, what the expectations are.”