He was found with stolen goods and burglary tools in his school backpack and that wasn’t even the main reason for his suspension.
“He was found with stolen goods and burglary tools in his school backpack . . ..”
The Miami-Dade School District had its own in-house police dept., and the relevant administrators/officers decided that student offenses that could by law be deemed felonies would be dealt with administratively in-house, and not be referred to municipal police officials.
The school officials chose to deal with Trayvon’s two offenses (I believe he also had drugs or drug paraphernalia in his backpack) by suspending him, whereupon his father and mother, who resided in that district, sent him to Sanford to live with Dad’s girl friend.