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 local Law Enforcement who had gone into schools talking about bullying, including Cyber Bullying and gi
Good morning, everybody. Lots of people know each other here, wonderful. It will be a great day. Welcome, everybody, welcome to San Francisco. To some of you, welcome to the presidio, welcome to this absolutely gorgeous futures without violence center. I want to start by thanking futures without violence and esther solar for giving us this beautiful space to meet in today. Is esther here . I havent seen her. Well thank her later. They made this Space Available for us. Good morning, my name is me linda hague for those of you who dont know me. I was appointed by president obama a little more than two years ago to be United States attorney and it is my incredible honor to represent the president , the Obama Administration here in the Northern District of california. Welcome to the stop bullying summit. Im a federal prosecutor so it may seem odd that here we are talking about bullying and we asked all of you to be here and i want to explain the origin of that and why this happened. You peo
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 Districts, weve got to empower parents, weve got to empower bystanders. When my daughter was bullied in 7th grade, her friends saw it, but they were paralyzed. They didnt know what to do and they did nothing. I dont begrudge thipl for that, they are wonderful kids, but they didnt have the tools to do anything about it. So we work on those issues and we work on those and our local School District was remarkable in their reaction. But in the work that we have done, ruslyn and i across the country, we have seen too many School Districts, quite frankly, that have been slow to respond. And that is why we have to come together like this.
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
Welcome, everybody, welcome to San Francisco. To some of you, welcome to the presidio, welcome to this absolutely gorgeous futures without violence center. I want to start by thanking futures without violence and esther solar for giving us this beautiful space to meet in today. Is esther here . I havent seen her. Well thank her later. They made this Space Available for us. Good morning, my name is me linda hague for those of you who dont know me. I was appointed by president obama a little more than two years ago to be United States attorney and it is my incredible honor to represent the president , the Obama Administration here in the Northern District of california. Welcome to the stop bullying summit. Im a federal prosecutor so it may seem odd that here we are talking about bullying and we asked all of you to be here and i want to explain the origin of that and why this happened. You people, everybody in this room, has been involved in this issue and is doing incredible work on this