Posted on 07/15/2013 7:07:18 AM PDT by NOBO2012
The February 2012 shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martion might never have happened if school officials in Miami-Dade County had not instituted an unofficial policy of treating crimes as school disciplinary infractions. Revelations that emerged from an internal affairs investigation explain why Martin was not arrested when caught at school with stolen jewerly in October 2011 or with marijuana in February 2012. Instead, the teenager was suspended from school, the last time just days before he was shot dead by George Zimmerman.
Trayvon Martin was not from Sanford, the town north of Orlando where he was shot in 2012 and where a jury acquitted Zimmerman of murder charges Saturday. Martin was from Miami Gardens, more than 200 miles away, and had come to Sanford to stay with his father’s girlfriend Brandy Green at her home in the townhouse community where Zimmerman was in charge of the neighborhood watch. Trayvon was staying with Green after he had been suspended for the second time in six months from Krop High School in Miami-Dade County, where both his father, Tracy Martin, and mother, Sybrina Fulton, lived.
Both of Trayvon’s suspensions during his junior year at Krop High involved crimes that could have led to his prosecution as a juvenile offender. However, Chief Charles Hurley of the Miami-Dade School Police Department (MDSPD) in 2010 had implemented a policy that reduced the number of criiminal reports, manipulating statistics to create the appearance of a reduction in crime within the school system. Less than two weeks before Martin’s death, the school system commended Chief Hurley for “decreasing school-related juvenile delinquency by an impressive 60 percent for the last six months of 2011.” What was actually happening was that crimes were not being reported as crimes, but instead treated as disciplinary infractions...
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But... But... Our intentions were good! /s
Wasn’t it another famous progressive who said “it takes a village” to raise a child. But yet another example where they they don’t want to inform the villagers because of political correctness...
Eat a poptart the wrong way requires a SWAT team.
Probably saved the taxpayers of Florida from having to prosecute and incarcerate St Skittles for his life of crime...
Indeed it’s what the media doesn’t tell us is the real news.
Omit filter and rewrite rule is still in use.
Cover-Up = Collusion
This reminds me of the School Superintendent in Atlanta who got all sorts of awards (even $) for improving the grades/test scores....then the truth comes out - it's all a sham...big cheating scandal.....
I hope this gets reported - I've read it in a few places during the trial but not getting NEAR the exposure it should!!! I believe he was "casing" the neighborhood that night based on his past behavior.
Had he been arrested, he would still be alive. Alive to live his life of crime.
We sure haven't heard much about St. Martin's dysfunctional family. It's worth noting that his court room mother has a different last name - Fulton. There were at least two other maternal figures in his life - the woman who raised him from a toddler until some sort of break up with his father while St. Martin was in his early teens, and the father's current girl friend, the woman whose house he was staying in after his latest crime spree. I wonder if this might have had an effect on his behavior?
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“Oh no, you’re going to punish me by making me stay home from school and whitewashing my police record!” said no teenager EVER!
I know several people involved with the justice system in various states and to get time as an juvie one has to be charged with crimes involving serious injury.
Certainly not for pot.
My three younger sisters were all homeschooled. Looking back, I wish my parents had pulled me out of public school when they made this decision.
Yet another case of a govt entity ignoring the laws that we have to live by, at its whim. :(
I once was engaged to what turned out to be one of the brightest teachers in that system. She was teaching at Miami Edison Middle School, deep in the Miami black district.
One day, when I had dropped by to bring something to her, as the class filed in, one of the Urban Ferals threw a handful of small rocks at another Feral and one stone hit the targeted Feral at the edge of her eye.
We walked down to the Principal's office for a quick visit to the Principal and the school nurse. While the girl was being treated, I asked how long before the boy was expelled.
The Principal replied that school policy was to not expel such students because they would then be on the streets selling and buying drugs.
I then mentioned that I had seen students exchanging money for something in small plastic bags - and Skittles were not then on the market.
Even after being told there was drug dealing in the corridors she was adamant about not expelling the violent Urban Feral.
(am I allowed to ask that question?)
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