Trayvon Martin Shooting: Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho Says
Failure To Investigate is "Cause For Outrage"
"As Superintendent of Miami-Dade County Public Schools, a father, and an American, I am heartbroken and deeply disturbed by the senseless and untimely death of one of my students, one of my children, Trayvon Martin.
Each year we lose far too many young people to illness and accidents, but the death of a child as the result of an inexplicable violent act is not only heartbreaking, it is cause for outrage. The apparent failure of authorities to properly investigate such a death is utterly unacceptable.
Trayvon was killed on February 26, 2012, and some twenty-four days later, no charges have been filed or arrests made. Our American justice system is one that assures that all citizens are equal in the eyes of the law and that evidence, not conjecture or supposition, is to drive criminal investigations.
I join my voice with those who, in pain and mourning, demand that no stone be left unturned as state and federal entities achieve what, apparently and unjustifiably, the Sanford Police Department has not--justice."
http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2012/03/miami-dade_schools_superintend.php
Trayvon attended Michael Krop Senior High in Miami-Dade County. As a public school teacher in Miami-Dade, I'm proud that Carvalho has taken a stand.
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That police department should be cleaned out. Something is very wrong in the Sanford Police Department.
For cripes sake they even failed to identify the poor kid and let him lay in a morge as a "John Doe". Did they have his cell phone?
This whole thing stinks and is just heartbreaking. A beautiful young person was killed for nothing.
Thank you, Mr. Carvalho, for speaking up for Trayvon.
Horrifying.
