Eminem fan arrested for being too ‘shady’

15-year-old student in trouble for posting lyrics to rapper’s song referencing a high-school shooting

A 15-year-old high school student in Fresno, California, was arrested after posting Eminem’s lyrics on Instagram. The teen was suspected of terrorist threats because he posted the words to the rapper’s song I’m Back, which referenced the deadly 1999 Columbine High School shooting.

“I take seven kids from Columbine, stand ’em all in line/Add an AK-47, a revolver, a nine/A Mac-11 and it oughtta solve the problem of mine/And that’s a whole school of bullies shot up all at one time/I’m just like Shady and just as crazy as the world was over this whole Y2K thing,” read the Instagram post. The only difference is ‘I’m just like Shady’ versus the original ‘I’m Shady’.

School officials at San Joaquin Memorial High School were alerted to the boy’s disturbing post. Police were then called and they arrested the teen. He was charged with making terrorist threats and disrupting school activity.

For safety reasons, the school was instantly shut down on Tuesday, September 1, according to the US Weekly. It was also said that the student faced a series of emotional challenges, including his mother’s demise about a year ago, being bullied, having to quit the football team, and doing poorly in school.

At a press conference on Tuesday, Fresno police Chief Jerry Dyer said, “These are really all the things we look for in individuals that historically have been involved in incidents such as Columbine. So, we’re very fortunate that this was brought to our attention.”

Published in The Express Tribune, September 5^th, 2015.

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