Mother Warned School Before Shooting

[The Straight Story]

Mother Warned School Before Shooting

CHICAGO (CN) - A mother says she repeatedly warned school and city officials that her son was in danger because of racial tensions at his high school, but her warnings were ignored and her son was shot in the back in the school parking lot.

Calvette Mixon and her son Robert sued Chicago, its Board of Education and six of its members, Hubbard High School principal Andrew Manno and police Cmdr. C.J. Kupczeyk, in Federal Court.

Robert Mixon was shot on Jan. 26, 2010. Robert is black; Hubbard has a predominantly Latino student body. It is an inner-city school on Chicago's South Side.

The Mixons' attorney, Sean Mulroney, told Courthouse News in an interview: "The real problem is the mother tried to do everything she could to prevent the situation.
"She knew that her son and some of his friends had been targeted. She went to the principal, the Board of Education and the head of the district. She told them this was going to be a problem and got no help from anybody. Had they done anything, as simple as walking the kids to the bus, this could have been avoided."

http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/01/27/43398.htm

[southernyankeebelle]

1. Sad situation. It's plan see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. Therefore do nothing

[tavalon]

2. The millions she will get won't make up for her child being shot.

This is just unconscionable.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

3. Every one cries about violence but then a chance to intercede is ignored n/t