A high school friend of my daughter got expelled for phoning in a bomb threat. Only he didn't do it and could prove it because his cell phone number which he allegedly used to phone in the threat was used four hours earlier to phone the line for homework assignments.
Didn't matter, however, because the kid was white and our PC principal needed to produce a scape goat to prove to the "students of color" that she punished fairly.
She really thought she would get away with it, too. Especially after kid was foolish enough to refuse her offer to negotiate the expulsion down to a two week suspension in return for a confession.
Lets just say that a few of the paleface parents got together and helped the kid hire a really expensive lawyer. The settlement offer was never disclosed, but the young man graduated from one of the more expensive universities in the Pittsburgh area with ZERO student loan debt. None of us who helped invest in his lawyer lost a penny either. Unfortunately, we couldn't get rid of the jag-off principal. She is still in the same spot looking for more young lives to help screw up.
The ethnic background of the students [including the alleged hero] is what you suspect. Don't know about the administrators.
Her email seems adamantly clear. There's more we don't know.