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Miami-Dade School Officials Force Student to Delete Footage of Security Guard Abuse

Wednesday, December 5, 2012 23:31
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Joel Franco, the 17-year-old aspiring journalist from Miami who’s been written about on PINAC before, was threatened with a ten-day suspension today if he didn’t delete a video showing a school security guard body slamming another student to the ground.

The high school junior said that up until then, he was steadfastly refusing to delete the video, even after a security guard grabbed him from behind and shoved him against the wall.

But a ten-day suspension could cause “major setbacks” for him at American High School in Hialeah, a working class suburb in Miami-Dade County, so he reluctantly obliged.

“When they told me I would be suspended, I started panicking,” he said in a telephone interview with Photography is Not a Crime.

“I didn’t want to ruin everything for a video, so I deleted it.”

But he’s not happy about it and now he is trying to recover the video from his Samsung Galaxy phone.

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