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 jewelry 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.
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