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STATEMENT BY MIAMI-DADE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS Superintendent of Schools Alberto M. Carvalho released the following statement regarding the death of Trayvon Martin, a student at Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School. Superintendent Carvalho also wrote to Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General, in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, encouraging and fully supporting the agency’s thorough and independent review of the incident to determine if Trayvon’s civil rights were violated. As Superintendent of Miami-Dade County Public Schools, a father, and an American, I am heartbroken and deeply disturbed by the senseless and untimely death of one of my students, one of my children, Trayvon Martin. Each year we lose far too many young people to illness and accidents, but the death of a child as the result of an inexplicable violent act is not only heartbreaking, it is cause for outrage. The apparent failure of authorities to properly investigate such a death is utterly unacceptable. Trayvon was killed on February 26, 2012, and some twenty-four days later, no charges have been filed or arrests made. Our American justice system is one that assures that all citizens are equal in the eyes of the law and that evidence, not conjecture or supposition, is to drive criminal investigations. I join my voice with those who, in pain and mourning, demand that no stone be left unturned as state and federal entities achieve what, apparently and unjustifiably, the Sanford Police Department has not--justice. # # # 12-JS/308/JJS |
