Seven year-old Muslim boy reported to police after school mistakes brass cylinder for ‘bullet’

‘A seven-year-old Muslim schoolboy in Birmingham, England, was left in tears after two police cars were sent to his home because the his school mistook a piece of brass he brought to class as a bullet.
St Edward’s Catholic Primary School contacted the police after the child said a piece of brass was a “bullet” and told his teachers his older teenage brother, who had reportedly been on an army cadet course, had held a weapon.
Tell Mama, a charity that monitors anti-Muslim hate, said “taking a common sense approach to incidents that relate to safeguarding seem to go out of the window.”’
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