I heard that same radio show and there are more details. This happened before school started. The Mexican kids had brought a Mexican flag to work and ran it up the ROTC flagpole. Some ROTC students went over and asked them to take it down but they wouldn't. So the ROTC guys ran it down, removed it, and gave it back to the Mexicans. As soon as they left, the Mexicans ran it back up the flagpole again. That's when the ROTC kids took it down and burned it, and the scuffling started.
The dad said that his son has been in ROTC for 3 years and is proud of it, planning to be a military officer. Said that the AJ PD decided to make an example of him so charged him with two felony counts - arson and something like interfering with an educational institution.
Since the dad used all of his savings to retain an attorney, I would expect that the radio station would be trying to set up a fund to help defray his costs. If so, Freepers can check back at www.kfyi.com periodically to see if that fund is available.
This makes me angry and I hope the kid is exonerated because in my opinion he and his friends are heroes.
Thanks, T.
This makes me angry and I hope the kid is exonerated because in my opinion he and his friends are heroes.
I believe many here of FR will agree with you that they are heroes. They have more friends than they know!
Good idea about keeping tabs on
We'll keep checking if a legal defense fund arises!
That is disgusting, sick, and wrong. I woke up in a foreign country, did I?
Thank you for the updates. This is unbelievable. So now the kid's future military career is in jeopardy?
A link to the staff directory at the High school where you can email the principal
http://www.ajhs.ajusd.org/email-what/email.html
A link to the county attorney for the county (probably the right one) the town straddles two counties, but this is the county that has the largest area of the town
PinalCountyAttorney@co.pinal.az.us
maybe we should let these folks know how we feel about this kid being arrested.