Four Utah students in police custody after allegedly brandishing handgun at drivers

Four students were taken into custody after police said they flashed gang signs and brandished a loaded gun.

[@JacobC479]

Imagine living in Utah and throwing gang signs and brandishing a pistol to people like you’re a badass😂

[@HamsterK37]

Imagine thinking Utah is the bastion of peace and prosperity. A Utopia with no lower-middle/lower class neighborhoods.

[@shanellsadlier3979]

Fr. I live in hooper right next to Roy. All those kids think they’re ghetto when it’s literally surrounded by suburbs. It’s like one of the smallest towns in Utah. They just think it’s cool 🤣

[@HowellingMad]

That's what I thought, wrong hood yo! 😂😂😂

[@FelixxileF1990]

Imagine acting like Utah doesn't have gangs... naive. While surely the active rate is lower than somewhere like Cali, to run around the Salt Lake Valley with that mentality, especially late at night, could easily get you in trouble. We have Crips, Bloods, and many others just like pretty much anywhere else. Sure, it's the LDS hub. What? You think that keeps the gangs at bay? 😂 We also have cartel activity. Just because things aren't advertised, does not mean they aren't happening. Oh... and let's not forget the biker gangs.

[@Skank_and_Gutterboy]

They think they live in Ogden or something.

[@tgarcia-rocha3629]

they once knew a gangsta named Cornpop

[@matrim1762]

He was a bad bad dude. His rusty razer blades were well known

[@user-io9ie5cs8j]

A high school student making gang signs then flashing a pistol most certainly is a threat, and I'm from the generation that had racks with rifles in the pickup at school

[@Brandon-kp5to]

Cool story bro

[@jonthinks6238]

I as well.

[@ianbelletti6241]

I grew up in central PA. There were students who'd have hunting rifles in their cars because they'd go hunting in the wee hours of the morning then head straight to school. Screw the police and the gun control activists who made the students feel so unsafe that they thought it necessary to bring a gun to school.

[@Fajita.tamale]

Back when freedom existed

[@srso4660]

@@ianbelletti6241stupid logic 🙄 Guns are not the answer to feeling safe at school. If it’s that bad just find another school or do online but involving a gun isn’t going to help the situation

[@michelehansen1653]

Look at their parents,they would also be stolen

[@hibabe5038]

Parents plural that's a joke right ?

[@baylee_baby_]

Most of the time they have a mom and a dad who's been in and out of jail she still sticks with😂

[@bethperez4783]

Why do children feel the need to have a gun for protection at school? Why do they not feel protected by the adults? Could it be that the adults aren't listening?

[@xo2quilt]

Do you really think teens talk to adults? Not often.

[@NakedOwl501]

Do you really believe that wasn't just a cover story?

[@user-qt1kr8lq1d]

A long time ago in farm country high school kids came to school in pickup trucks with a rifle in the rack across the rear window. No one thought a thing about it. I miss those days.

[@dantescave1]

Yeah, that was like 50 years ago… everything has changed!

[@Dixiesoul345]

They still do it in My. Ida Arkansas.

[@Dixiesoul345]

​@@dantescave1no it's not 50 years ago it's earlier than that because I graduated in 86 and the guys had guns in their trucks back then.

[@NeoAutodroid]

Now even a lot of businesses ban employees from having guns in the car while at work. So much for right to bear arms. Corporations have more rights than people now.

[@tomc8930]

We all carried long guns in the back glass on a rack when I was a kid how days kids carry their guns in their drivers door are under the seat!

[@melsafken764]

How is it not a threat?

[@Skank_and_Gutterboy]

I was thinking the same thing. Flashing a gun at motorists is not a threat? Does the "journalist" want to tell me what it is then?

[@billiep4338]

Eventually they’ll flash it at someone who’s armed, & that’ll be a problem for them. People are tired of this nonsense.

[@niccoleball7442]

Agreed!!!!!

[@zx3215]

soon they will learn to explain it was a "peaceful protest"

[@Gods_drummer]

Parents are failing their own children

[@imacmill]

Yup, teaching them the ways of right-wing violence and hatred.

[@Gods_drummer]

@@imacmill wrong

[@imacmill]

@@Gods_drummer I agree. Parents teaching their kids the ways of right-wing violence and hatred is WRONG, and needs to be stopped.

[@Gods_drummer]

@@imacmill wrong again,

[@imacmill]

@@Gods_drummer OK, so parents teaching their kids the ways of right-wing violence and hatred is RIGHT, and needs to be encouraged. Gotcha. And it's what's been happening all across the country since 2016. Kok-n-blu-balz to you, my godly friend 🙏

[@toussaintchivars9005]

Seems a lot has been happening in Utah since 2016. 🤔

[@kellybrandon1179]

That's just surface life

[@SeashelleBytheseashore]

Seems like every other crazy news story. Florida and Utah

[@shanellsadlier3979]

well A LOT of people have moved here from other states. They’re ruining it

[@salty_snowboarder]

If you haven't seen it since 2016, you'd be shocked by the number of homeless we have wondering around now.

[@JackStraw-ub9jz]

Ask the ATF who lost over 30 Thousand Guns lol .

[@berniemadoff7837]

Fast and Furious

[@JackStraw-ub9jz]

@berniemadoff7837 Almost looks like they were trying to stay in business not to mention 911 was used as an excuse for all these Police Agencies to emerge like Homeland Security, FISA Courts and their secret Watch List which is really a Hit List trust me I know this personally, Infragard and the Cops Programs that use Organized Community Felony Stalking Tactics against many Conservative Americans who were illegally put on a Terrorist Watch List and then the Highly illegal Cointelpro Tactics against that individual begins violating the 1st Amendment to stop that individual from exposing them along with 4th Amendment violations as well and Set Ups to imprison the Target making him or her out to be a Criminal which is far from the truth . Street Terminology for this is called Gangstalking which is a Terminology that the FBI made up to make the Targeted Individual look mentally Ill or on drugs. They love playing the Mental Illness Card and Drug Addict Card. Sorry but after a decade of research this is some of what has been revealed to me !!!!!!! Sincerely, Henry Eberhardt Targeted by Criminals With Badges in Glenburnie Maryland in the Marley Community

[@fakenman]

oops, now the cartels have protection when they're smuggling drugs and people into our country. how inconvenient and totally not as planned.

[@SP-yn4md]

PARENTS.....STOLEN.....FRIENDS

[@seand5719]

Wow he had a hunting rifle in his car for hunting season high School I used to have a rifle in my truck during hunting season.

[@Squatchrocket]

You can have a gun near a school....just not in the actual school zone. Inside the school zone, its illegal.

[@seand5719]

This is back in the late 70s when I went to high school. Things were different than.

[@24Wynn]

What? Not all kids had their own car or truck while attending high school.

[@michaelsorensen7567]

Remember when there was a rifle club in school, and all the kids had guns in their truck to hunt after school? I get things are different now, but maybe we should figure out how to get back to that

[@bentaylor8198]

That's why they call us dinosaurs

[@rjay7019]

I know right 😢 I remember.

[@garyt3hsna1l82]

Maybe we should acknowledge that times have changed, and that pretending to be a ganster is the new hunting club. Furthermore these kids need to be led by example, obviously they look up to men that glorify violence and war, they have to see that men can be more than that.

[@dianad0523]

​@garyt3hsna1l82 Thanks for writing exactly what I was thinking. Throwing gang signs and carrying a weapon is far from having one to go hunting. Kids and alot of Adults want to react quickly without thinking of the consequences so the last thing they need are more guns

[@michaelsorensen7567]

@@dianad0523 except of the ones mentioned in the interview, self defense and hunting were explicitly mentioned...

[@janetrose3929]

This should not be surprising to anyone.

[@JonasMatthewBahta]

The real question is where are the parents? The parents should be ashamed of themselves as well. A responsible parent would not allow these kids to have access to a gun period. Some people should not be parent at all.

[@24Wynn]

I agree 1000%!!

[@imacmill]

Bullcrap!! ~NRA Representative

[@toriwilliams5047]

I am sorry about the sad developing among juveniles ❤ Prayers from Norway

[@pammers5588]

Most children in America 🇺🇸 grow up just fine and would never think about doing anything like this

[@toriwilliams5047]

@@pammers5588 And I still find it sad. One is too many. 🩷

[@24Wynn]

Thanks, Norway!! I appreciate your support. Gun culture is unnecessary. The mentality of "What if . . . " is based in fear and a mentality of lack. Wish they had better parent's.

[@nancyhoward1917]

Prayer 🙏

[@KC1up]

Roy is such a dumpy city.

[@ruthokelley5833]

‘A high school student brought a gun to school for his own protection!’ Now…America has lost it…for sure!

[@davidarnold6629]

Isn't that the Republican end game, having everyone armed?

[@ruthokelley5833]

@@davidarnold6629 …apparently so! It is hard enough growing up, but to perceive the people at school…around you as ‘others’ can’t make for a balanced life to live in…

[@user-io9ie5cs8j]

Don't blame Republicans or conservatives as liberals ignoring gangs and the border for decades brought this; and Hollywood

[@24Wynn]

​@@davidarnold6629You got that right. The NRA use to donate heavily to the RNC. Since 2019, the NRA was sold to a foreign entity. Russia, I think. They want us all to buy lots and lots of guns so they can watch Americans gunning each other down.

[@JTheraos]

​@@davidarnold6629having every responsible adult armed, not kids...

[@karlabrewster8605]

I had a rifle and shotgun in my gun rack mounted in the back window of my truck

[@garytrujillo3791]

The police said none of the incidents involved any threats? Someone else should investigate the police department and find out why they didn’t do their job and try to prevent a disaster.

[@kellykersten8828]

That's what I've been saying for a long time, somebody is sponsoring these kids. They can't afford these weapons and that ammo on their own.

[@benjamindrackert4554]

It’s called jobs

[@benjaminabel8596]

Man, kids in high school have nicer cars than I do, a lot of them are pretty smart and know where to get the money. Pretty smart except for the guns part.

[@SlCKB0Y-sb1kg]

They are getting these guns from home? Just a guess. Usually if I had something at school that I shouldn’t it was either my parents or my older sibling.

[@Supermanscave]

Get metal detectors in school.

[@davidarnold6629]

LDS recruiting is getting really aggressive

[@chuckintexas_1437]

We have to protect ourselves ! 4 gun owners not associated with each other buried at the end of the report , Girls carrying for Self protection and it's in his vehicle for hunting, all not posing any threat to the school .. Yeah, THEY are out of control "juveniles" . No gang signs. Added to the story to support the "NARRATIVE" .

[@rconger24]

"LDS recruiting" off topic and disingenuous to lable here.

[@user-tl4ep9ob6s]

Just another story to try to grab guns. Never, And I mean never let them disarm the populace. Then the only people w guns will all be criminals.

[@chadhamblin47]

You are not funny at all. Shame on you!!

[@planethedgehog2427]

> Four Utah student Students.

[@FunStuff-zc3ps]

@planethedgehog2427 you remind me of my sister

[@Alisha_79]

We had gun racks full of rifles and shotguns in trucks at our high-school in the 90's 😂😂😂. No school shootings. It's called discipline and getting the government out of our schools.

[@dantescave1]

Yeah, but all 90’s kids are shooting the place up…

[@Porsche996driver]

3x the numbers of GUNs on the streets today 30 years later! NRA isn’t for hunters - just for blood money!

[@24Wynn]

I graduated in '85. Never saw trucks with guns in my high school parking lot.

[@anthonyphan702]

I'd rather go to Roy High today with all its issues than repeat 10th-grade Chemistry, so...

[@ryanmullins2103]

When I was growing up, we didn’t have this problem.

[@sunoveristambul]

Locals. Not.

[@carlafulton2473]

😂😂😂

[@user-yf6cd9bb8t]

Utah was such a safe place when I was growing up. We didn't even lock our doors.

[@1delta_10tangos]

Guns have been at schools for decades. Wasn't uncommon to see rifles in racks ,in trucks parked in the parking lot. This was in the late 90s.

[@24Wynn]

I graduated in '85. I never saw any trucks with a rifle in the parking lot of my high school.

[@1delta_10tangos]

@24Wynn my school was in AZ. If your school was in/near/close to south central Los Angeles, I understand why you did not see rifle racks.

[@mzliz1249]

Mormons be wilden lately! 😳😳😳

[@NoName-yl3pb]

If you think this is elder smith and not juan Pablo Hernandez, you are a fool

[@mzliz1249]

@@NoName-yl3pb ahh, a comment from another Mormon. 🙄

[@rjay7019]

Doesn't sound like any Mormons I know but thing's have changed. And I'm not a Mormon I just grew up in Utah.

[@NoName-yl3pb]

@@mzliz1249 not a Mormon, but I live in Utah. Most of the Mormons are super nice. The crime patterns are shockingly consistent!

[@KC1up]

They were LDS? Or are you just being snarky because it happened in Utah?

[@theselector2310]

It’s even more disturbing that the local cops are anti second amendment.

[@Porsche996driver]

Cops want to get home to their families. What a shocker I know!!

[@EvanHOPPY819]

Guns on my bday?

[@nobody.2023]

Yeah strict security is needed in all schools

[@user-qt1kr8lq1d]

Strict security is needed in the HOMES !

[@24Wynn]

​@@user-qt1kr8lq1dTotally agree. Everything starts at HOME!

[@tomc8930]

It’s hard for me to believe police don’t have any ideal where these people are getting these guns! ….. you can buy a gun in just about any area you can buy drugs and getting easier in middle class neighborhoods! Cartels don’t discriminate and are smart enough to know where the money is!

[@longhorn7809]

What do you expect ROY

[@skyelucille3680]

i hate it here

[@chuckintexas_1437]

We have to protect ourselves ! 4 gun owners not associated with each other buried at the end of the report , Girls carrying for Self protection and it's in his vehicle for hunting, all not posing any threat to the school .. Yeah, THEY are out of control "juveniles" . No gang signs. Added to the story to support the "NARRATIVE" .

[@concilium1]

Young scholars flashing guns and gang signs. What could go wrong?

[@jenniferbyork690]

It’s Utah!

[@debleary3241]

Whatever happened to a good old fist fight?

[@johnrutherford1650]

Certainly not legally owned guns

[@lisiatew]

Uhhh, from their homes? 👀🙄

[@davidlangford9107]

WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE MORMAN STATE OF UTAH? ONCE THE SUPPOSEDLY GREATEST PACIFIST STATE HAS SUDDENLY TURNED VIOLENT?

[@24Wynn]

Too much oppression that makes kids want to rebel and toxic male culture.

[@debralabarge614]

Yes, but who noticed the stellar beard that officer has?

[@samditto]

Ask who said what

[@sayadelavari8996]

“They brought it for their own protection” how about all the other kids that need protection from them???? This is why I die everyday when I drop my daughter off at school and I can’t breathe u till I pick her up… smh

[@Gun_Nut361]

Maybe don’t send you kid to public school idk just a thought

[@24Wynn]

​@@Gun_Nut361Not everybody can afford to send their kids to a ptivate school.

[@jessicaandscottcurtis2887]

I thought these were gun-free zones?

[@BraddahHuna]

I would first look at the police department

[@AdrienGiron]

There problems is gang and criminal with guns and doesn't follow laws and whether involve committing crime or not. Crazy!

[@flyin.hawaiian]

It starts at home. All it takes is a parents walking into their kids rooms. Weaponized parental ignorance gets people killed. Step up Roy parents.

[@eas2252]

Showing isn't brandishing

[@mlamber7780]

Parents are their children’s first teachers. But parents can’t teach what they don’t know. ~ John 3:16

[@JohnSmith-sh1zg]

Out of towners settling in Utah nowadays. This will only get worse.

[@williamjaded3058]

Investigate where the parents of these so-called high school kids are from? Could it be that they moved to Utah from blue states like California Illinois New York. And if so then trace the problem back to the home and the attitude of the parents

[@bunberrier]

"teens" right?

[@rickjohnson1719]

Notice how they didnt show what these guys looked like. There is a reason for that and smart people will know what it is.

[@Paul-zf8ob]

I totally agree. It’s agenda driven to hide the races of these people!

[@Gun_Nut361]

Same way they don’t show white ppl’s faces when they do something

[@24Wynn]

It's because they are minors.

[@24Wynn]

​@@Gun_Nut361I agree except these kids are minors and 80% of Utahns are white.

[@NUFAN1313]

Same way they don't publicly identify juvenile suspects. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@shawnhuff3920]

Wanta be gangsters.. and perants not giving a care about what their children are doing...

[@shamaYahu8635]

Nah, i don't believe it. Not 100%

[@bonniebrown6960]

Have they been under the teachings of Chad and Lori Daybell? 🙄

[@tonyag69]

What color are they?

[@carollittlewind]

Greene

[@kfrerix9777]

Utah colored.

[@lindajoe9862]

​@@kfrerix9777😅😅😅😅😅

[@kenn8954]

rainbow?

[@shroom903]

Everyone already knows the answer. Most are just too afraid of being called a racist. Bet anything they are black. Not the kid who wanted to go hunting though.

[@wickidblazed420]

Fartherless kids acting stupid

[@elijahmiller912]

Could also be made up for fear mongering, we need to question everything that comes from big bro

[@lonestarbandit1153]

How they get the guns?!? Uhhh obviously illegally dafuq.

[@user-tl4ep9ob6s]

😂😂😂

[@clannadgirl46]

Are these illegals?

[@maxbang1813]

How About detectors which every student walks through?

[@marcusanderson-yeager6740]

Thug school!

[@jmatt781]

Well, what do you expect from a state that barely pays the public school teachers a living wage? The number of grown adults that I've ran into in this state that can barely read is absolutely crazy. Stupidity leads to stupid behavior. Just look at the drivers.... 🤦‍♂️

[@24Wynn]

The wage part is true. We have many highly intelligent people in Utah. We are called the College State for a reason. Then we have the willfully ignorant. They refuse to go to the library or attend college to learn to read and write.

[@toddandrews9829]

Had a gun in his car for hunting. That was any day in season when I was a kid and we didn't even think about shootings. It's a parental problem not the kid hunting it's the protection and flashing "gang wannabes problem".

[@fjb4932]

"...flashing gang signs..." It'd be difficult flashing gang signs missing a finger each time they were caught. Give'm a nickname of Nubs. (" Oohhh, but they're just little kiddies !" THAT'S the problem...YOU ! ). ☆

[@20truck]

I don't know what the big deal is when I was in high school in the '80s we brought guns to school all the time we left them in our vehicles and they were locked. Lots of kids would go hunting in the morning and then they would come straight to school and they would leave their rifle in they're gun rack in their car or truck. Me personally I carried a knife to school everyday at a 6-in buck knife I carried on my side all the time we never in the history of our school system had a problem with a student pulling a knife or using a firearm against another student. I'll be honest with you people If some of these incidents would have happened at our high school when I was there let's just say we had more firepower in the parking lot than most police departments we would have defended the students there's no doubt in my mind. If we would have had an incident like in Texas I'll promise you it would not have ended the way it did, we would have defended those children, deterrence is a big thing You got to think about that.

[@randyscrafts8575]

Back in the day people were much more level headed and sane. Today, not so much. Kids and adults have a lot of unaddressed mental health issues.

[@20truck]

@@randyscrafts8575 I couldn't agree with you more I don't know if it's mental health issues or it's just stupidity, I'm not buying the fact that people say children have it harder now because they don't. Back when I was younger you wanted your mom to drive you to the pool she'd laugh at you If she had a car to even take you in most of the time I rode my bike or you walked. We didn't set inside staring at a phone all the time we got out and played and used our imagination. So I don't think it's any harder these days I think it's a lot easier but the kids are just becoming way dumber and more powder puffed.

[@wendyfoster5579]

😮

[@user-dx9qk9jn5z]

Why is the cop on. This vid sexy af ?!

[@PerspectiveEngineer]

Gods love

[@Abcdefghijk920]

People in Utah are shocked about kids bringing guns to school? When 7 year old get them as Christmas and birthday gifts and go shooting and hunting? Ha. Lived 14 years of my life in Utah (no longer) and this doesn’t shock me one bit

[@24Wynn]

I've lived in Utah all of my life and I don't know any parents buying guns for their kids.

[@Abcdefghijk920]

@@24Wynn what part do you live in cos in my town this was pretty normal. Especially for hunting

[@user-wr5zi7jd7x]

Youngboy 😂

[@timRosco1760]

They need the guns to protect themselves from the police😅

[@TK-mv9ci]

Really asking where they got the guns.

[@brandonctibor558]

Are you kidding me a decade ago most students had guns in their cars for hunting after school

[@goofballbiscuits3647]

Most? Solipsism is real here

[@brandonctibor558]

@@goofballbiscuits3647 solipsism, that's a big word.🤓😉

[@goofballbiscuits3647]

@@brandonctibor558 The majority of people don't live in rural areas. Imagine if you'd had an education instead of a place where kids having guns was normalized.

[@brandonctibor558]

@@goofballbiscuits3647 most people do live in rural areas. There are only 10 cities that have a population of 1 million+ yet there are around 350 million total so you do the math. Plus all the states I've been to there are many little cities all over every state. So you obviously don't live in the USA and probably don't know why we have the right to bear arms. Guns have always been a big part of our history. Imagine if the youth learned true history.

[@goofballbiscuits3647]

@@brandonctibor558 I live in a major metropolitan area in the US. Just one of your many errors here. If you think the density of people in a high rise is the same as farmland, there is no level of logic I can use on you. Good luck, country folk.

[@JCC_1975]

What is up with Utah lately? So much hate and crime 😔 not the beautiful state I once lived in anymore.

[@perrypeaden5842]

Bet that none of those fire arms was bought legal, gun control wouldn't have stopped the fire arms from being in their possession 😂😂

[@lckhmup-xf5ft]

Gun control?? Need more laws on purchasing guns and background checks! More red flag laws against people like you!

[@robs4517]

Wonder if the kids or their parents are legally in the US? At least out of state tranplants.

[@24Wynn]

Wow! Racist much? I live in Utah and we don't have an "illegal immigration" problem here. The majority of Utahns are white.

[@sportbikejesus6297]

Is the person writing descriptions for KSL ESL?

[@Rosarium2007]

Or AI?

[@KennethFrierson-wt6xt]

What this aint Chicago

[@DidYouEverThinkToRepent_FLDS]

Make Utah Mormon Again

[@CindyJoGorman-bt9ro]

All those New Comers / Cali fornians, that were Allowed into the State... We've gotten them where I live, now there's Trash and people trying to drive 60 mph on our Dirt roads..

[@Maishley]

Aww the 2nd amendment is wonderful. 400 million guns on the streets. Maybe there should be 800 million. 🤷‍♀️

[@FunStuff-zc3ps]

Firearms are banned in th UK. They've just started knife restrictions.

[@Maishley]

@BrokenArrowClips 😳

[@Maishley]

@BrokenArrowClipsI know people with more guns than 4. Much much more.

[@Maishley]

@BrokenArrowClips yes. lol

[@ColeTurner-sr8mc]

The "Melenated"

[@user-yx9cf7gi3j]

Let me guess. Their____

[@pvtbuddie]

Their _ parents? _

[@eddeetz493]

Hire retired veterans to secure our schools. Harden entrances and arm teachers including training. Install tiny homes and feed them as part of the compensation package. Let the wood shop class and veterans build them on chasis.

[@heymancy56]

Come to Houston 😂😂😂😂