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Miami-Dade School Officials Force Student to Delete Footage of Security Guard Abuse
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.
2012-12-05 22:53:41
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