DPF today notes a case where the Police have to pay out because the told the prison service about charges against one of their staff - for fraud!
The Police have had to pay $8,750 to Carol Whatuira, a prison guard, because they notified the prison she had been charged with fraud!!!
And no she wasn’t innocent of the fraud. She pleaded guilty to the charges (which were lying to Police over a fraudulent insurance claim by her sister).
Her employment contract even specifies she must inform the prison if charged with fraud.
Patterico notes a case where a gang member was granted asylum because he was gang member. Note that - “because”, not “in spite of”.
In a story I couldn’t make up if I tried, the L.A. Times reports on Gerson Alvarado-Veliz, an illegal immigrant and gang member who was deported to Guatemala after serving a sentence in California for dealing crack cocaine. Alvarado-Veliz claims that he was targeted by death squads in Guatemala, who identified him as a gang member by his tattoos. The article reports that Alvarado-Veliz “knew he had to flee Guatemala or be killed. So he sneaked back into the United States.”
And finally, via Stop the ACLU’s Sunday cartoon, we have from CNN a case where students are denied their high school diplomas because other people cheered for them when they graduated.
About a month before the May 27 ceremony, Galesburg High students and their parents had to sign a contract promising to act in dignified way. Violators were warned they could be denied their diplomas and barred from the after-graduation party.
Many schools across the country ask spectators to hold applause and cheers until the end of graduation. But few of them enforce the policy with what some in Galesburg say are strong-arm tactics.
“It was like one of the worst days of my life,” said Gayles, who had a 3.4 grade-point average and officially graduated, but does not have the keepsake diploma to hang on her wall. “You walk across the stage and then you can’t get your diploma because of other people cheering for you. It was devastating, actually.”
But it gets worse, there may be a genuine racial component:
n Galesburg, the issue has taken on added controversy with accusations that the students were targeted because of their race: four are black and one is Hispanic. Parents say cheers also erupted for white students, and none of them was denied a diploma.
Principal Tom Chiles said administrators who monitored the more than 2,000-seat auditorium reported only disruptions they considered “significant,” and all turned in the same five names.
“Race had absolutely nothing to do with it whatsoever,” Chiles said. “It is the amount of disruption at the time of the incident.”
Of course, that bastian of free speech protection, the ACLU is up in arms… er, not.
American Civil Liberties Union spokesman Edward Yohnka said Galesburg’s policy raises no red flags as long as it is enforced equitably. “It’s probably well within the school’s ability to control the decorum at an event like this,” he said.
