This February, Sacramento and Elk Grove police arrested two 15-year-olds who were allegedly planning a Columbine-style attack at their high school. After a tip from a fellow student, they found evidence that the two had attempted to burglarize a sporting goods store for weapons, and one of the them had admitted to his father and others that he intended to shoot black students.
They’ve been rewarded with a $6 million claim that is the precursor to a lawsuit. The school district is being blamed for failing to provide adequate counseling in advance of the incident, and the Sacramento police are being sued for their comments on the case. “Either the police and now the DA have made a mistake on the hate-crime motivation, or the minor is lying to his parents and to me,” the lawyer, J. Jeffries Goodwin of the law firm California Fen-Phen Litigation Associates, explained. (Ramon Coronado and Gwendolyn Crump, “Accused student is called victim”, Sacramento Bee, Feb. 19; Ramon Coronado, “Students face racial charges”, Sacramento Bee, Mar. 2; Sam Stanton, Emily Bazar and Michael Kolber, “Plan to attack school alleged”, Sacramento Bee, Feb. 11) (via Jacobs).
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