Incident. You know that old addage, sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me, i categorically reject that. We have seen kids quite literally take their own lives as a result of Cyber Bullying and that is why i did a Remarkable Partnership in south florida with local Law Enforcement who had gone into schools talking about bullying, including Cyber Bullying and giving people concrete examples of things of situations they saw, it was remarkable. And that is why we will continue to do that work. So i hope today as we move forward you will understand that we are in this together with you at the department of justice. This is an all hands on deck enterprise. There is so much to do. I hope at the end of this day we will indeed all follow the lead of that student, walk out and say what are one or two things im going to do differently and better . How are we going to improve this situation . I hope if you take one and only one thing from melinda and my and ruslyns remark
Course of a two year period, we saw 6 or 7 kids who took their own lives, six or 7. We cant get those lives back, tragickly, but we can redouble our efforts to be sure no one else has to bear the unspeakable. We see the bullying of latino kids, of African American kids, we see bullying in so many shapes and forms and ive seen it across the country. But ive always seen remarkable and couragous people at work, local Law Enforcement, local das, people who are getting out of their lanes. The old paradigm of a da and a attorney and a police officer, you get bad guys, you put them this jail. You know, im telling you, ive done a lot of hate crimes cases and i know todays bullies are often tomorrows civil rights defendants. If we simply wait for that train wreck to occur and prosecute, thats going to be like trying to cure cancer by building more hospitals. We cant do it that way. Weve got to get into prevention mode. Weve got to figure out strategies to prevent, weve got to empower School Dis
Giving people concrete examples of things of situations they saw, it was remarkable. And that is why we will continue to do that work. So i hope today as we move forward you will understand that we are in this together with you at the department of justice. This is an all hands on deck enterprise. There is so much to do. I hope at the end of this day we will indeed all follow the lead of that student, walk out and say what are one or two things im going to do differently and better . How are we going to improve this situation . I hope if you take one and only one thing from melinda and my and ruslyns remarks today, if you have an idea, please bring them to us. We want to learn from you. We are in this together and i want to say thank you because the most important thing we have is a recognition that you understand that this is indeed a National Issue for us to deal with. Im looking forward to the rest of the day, i appreciate your presence and i appreciate your leadership, melinda, and
Things in communities across this country. So we have to get to work and we are, in fact, getting to work and i am so impressed at the partnerships that have been out here. Im so impressed that we recognize that bullying is no longer simply the bullying of your fists but its the bullying that can come through the use of twitter, through the use of other social media. We did a case, again a hate crimes case involving an individual who called himself devilfish who over the internet was sending Death Threats to the heads of the National Council of irasa to other organizations that had the audacity to october on behalf of immigrants. And we prosecuted him. You described one just now, that is not an isolated incident. You know that old addage, sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me, i categorically reject that. We have seen kids quite literally take their own lives as a result of Cyber Bullying and that is why i did a Remarkable Partnership in south florida with lo
Reject that. We have seen kids quite literally take their own lives as a result of Cyber Bullying and that is why i did a Remarkable Partnership in south florida with local Law Enforcement who had gone into schools talking about bullying, including Cyber Bullying and giving people concrete examples of things of situations they saw, it was remarkable. And that is why we will continue to do that work. So i hope today as we move forward you will understand that we are in this together with you at the department of justice. This is an all hands on deck enterprise. There is so much to do. I hope at the end of this day we will indeed all follow the lead of that student, walk out and say what are one or two things im going to do differently and better . How are we going to improve this situation . I hope if you take one and only one thing from melinda and my and ruslyns remarks today, if you have an idea, please bring them to us. We want to learn from you. We are in this together and i want t