[ironman]

“For instance, a few days before he was killed, Trayvon was suspended from school for ten days.

Still, Trayvon had nonviolent behavioral issues in school, and on the day he was killed, he had been suspended for 10 days from Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School in North Miami-Dade. “He was not suspended for something dealing with violence or anything like that. It wasn’t a crime he committed, but he was in an unauthorized area [on school property],” Martin said, declining to offer more details. Before that, Trayvon attended Miami Carol City High School near his mother’s home in Miami Gardens.

There has been very little follow-up in investigating exactly why Trayvon was suspended for such a long period of time for what seems to be the relatively minor offense of “being in an unauthorized area.” In most schools, something like that would be a detention, or one-day, in school suspension at most. Not ten days.”

http://www.wagist.com/2012/dan-linehan/was-trayvon-martin-a-drug-dealer

[Jonty30]

You have a point there, about Trayvon getting stupid and I certainly won’t deny that he appears to be getting sidetracked from a productive and fruitful life.

I was just pointing out the realities of the internet that people routinely say things totally out of character on the internet. That, by itself, is often meaningless.

[Scoutmaster]

Still, Trayvon had nonviolent behavioral issues in school, and on the day he was killed, he had been suspended for 10 days from Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School in North Miami-Dade. “He was not suspended for something dealing with violence or anything like that. It wasn’t a crime he committed, but he was in an unauthorized area [on school property],” Martin said, declining to offer more details.

We saw this quote (which says "Martin" when it's apparently referring to Krop) repeated countless times in the media by supporters of Martin before it was reported that he was actually suspended for having a marijuana pipe and an empty (?) baggie of marijuana.

First, I think his pipe and baggie are irrelevant to the Zimmerman shooting.

However, what's not irrelevant is that his principal or a teacher lied to the press, trying to paint Martin in a positive light. No, Dr. Krop, Marting wasn't suspended for being in an unathorized area. When you were quoted, people on FR said 'nonsense.' He was suspended because of the 'zero tolerance' rule on drug gear like the pipe.

Why did Dr. Krop feel the need to lie to the press and to polish Trayvon Marin's image over something that wasn't relevant to the shooting?