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Boston School Dean Recruited Students for Latin Kings, U.S. Says
The New York Times ^ | Aug. 10, 2022 | Amanda Holpuch

Posted on 08/15/2022 2:55:35 AM PDT by Salman

A former Boston public school official who recruited at-risk students into the Latin Kings gang and had the students distribute drugs on campus pleaded guilty to racketeering charges on Tuesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts said.

The former official, Shaun Harrison, 63, faces 218 months, or more than 18 years, in prison under the plea agreement, which was made in a case that targeted dozens of members of the Latin Kings. Mr. Harrison is currently serving a prison sentence for trying to kill one of the students, whom he shot in the back of the head at point-blank range.

Mr. Harrison was hired to serve as an academic dean at English High School in Boston in 2015, months before the shooting. He worked with families to help struggling students and ran an anger-management program for 10 boys at the school, using his position to recruit “a number of the at-risk students” into the gang, prosecutors said.

Mr. Harrison, known as “Rev” or “King Rev,” directed the students he recruited to sell marijuana and other drugs, which he provided, at the high school, prosecutors said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: children; crime; diversity; education; gangs; massachusetts; school; shaunharrison

1 posted on 08/15/2022 2:55:35 AM PDT by Salman
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To: Salman

That sounds like the value that Democrats put on minority students.


2 posted on 08/15/2022 3:07:29 AM PDT by Jonty30 (Some men want to watch the world burn. It is they that want you to buy an electric car.)
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To: Salman

Amish?


3 posted on 08/15/2022 3:11:26 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: tired&retired
Amish?

Oddly enough not "Latin", though.

4 posted on 08/15/2022 3:16:25 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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(Mr. Harrison is currently serving a prison sentence for trying to kill one of the students, whom he shot in the back of the head at point-blank range.)

Ummm.....”trying”?

Wow


5 posted on 08/15/2022 3:18:04 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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6 posted on 08/15/2022 3:43:24 AM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis )
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To: Salman

Life imitates art . . . this is basically the plot of The Substitute with Tom Berenger and Ernie Hudson


7 posted on 08/15/2022 3:49:40 AM PDT by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business )
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To: Salman
And this.

Houston, Texas. CPS Employee Caught on Video Encouraging 14-Year-Old Girl in Foster Care to Become Prostitute. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/cps-employee-caught-video-encouraging-14-year-old-girl-foster-care-become-prostitute/

8 posted on 08/15/2022 3:50:50 AM PDT by ChuckR163
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To: Salman
Being a lifelong resident of the Gay State (Massachusetts) I'm not even slightly surprised by this.
9 posted on 08/15/2022 4:14:14 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Ballots)
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To: Salman

Sounds like a failure of the interview and background check process. I think it very rare for someone in his fifties to join the Latin Kings gang.


10 posted on 08/15/2022 5:33:05 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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whom he shot in the back of the head at point-blank range.

a .25???


11 posted on 08/15/2022 1:08:15 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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