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There has to be more to this story? Is the school really this dumb?
Lawsuit: Student suspended because of photo with firearm
Former First Coast Technical College student says her constitutional rights were violated, seeks damages.
by: Max Marbut Associate Editor
A former student at First Coast Technical College has filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging that the college violated her constitutional rights when she was suspended based on a post on social media.
The college did not respond to a request for comment.
According to the complaint filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court in Jacksonville, Dia’mon Dallas was suspended from the school indefinitely because another student reported to the college’s administrators that a photograph of Dallas and her fiance holding legally purchased and lawfully possessed firearms at a gun range in Palatka was posted on Facebook.
Two days after the photograph was posted, Dallas was confronted on the college’s St. Augustine campus by the assistant principal and informed that she was being suspended indefinitely for appearing in a picture holding a firearm.
During the suspension meeting, the assistant principal said that in the posted picture, Dallas had a “mean look” on her face, was possessing “illegal guns” and stated that “things you do in the dark come in to the light,” according to the complaint.
The lawsuit contends that Dallas’s “purely off-campus Facebook communication with friends” constitutes speech protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution as applied to the states through the due process clause of the 14th Amendment.
The complaint further alleges that punishing Dallas for speech that occurred outside of school hours, away from school grounds and not at a school-related activity, and that did not and could not interrupt the school environment, amounts to retaliation in violation of Article 1, Section 4 of the Florida Constitution.
The complaint asks the court to declare that the school violated Dallas’s rights under the federal and state constitutions and that a corrective statement be placed in her student file indicating that she was unconstitutionally disciplined and that her rights were violated.
The lawsuit also seeks damages in an amount to be determined at trial.
Dallas is represented by Jacksonville Beach attorney Cord Byrd.
The case is assigned to U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard.
https://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/article/lawsuit-student-suspended-because-of-photo-with-firearm
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"I can’t get a job and I have a baby I have to support." A local mom says she was indefinitely suspended from First Coast Technical College over this photo. Watch the full story at 5:30 on CBS47 @ActionNewsJax & let me know if you think the school was right or wrong.
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/red-alert-politics/college-suspends-student-for-posing-with-gun-at-gun-range
It all started when student Dia’mon Dallas and her fiancé Anfernee Royster went to the gun range
with a family member who is a veteran. They posed for a photo and Royster posted it to Facebook
with the caption “She’s my Bonnie and I’m her Clyde.”
If only the boyfriend had posted, "She's my Angela Davis and I'm her Fidel Castro."
Then nothing would have happened.
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/red-alert-politics/college-suspends-student-for-posing-with-gun-at-gun-range
It all started when student Dia’mon Dallas and her fiancé Anfernee Royster went to the gun range
with a family member who is a veteran. They posed for a photo and Royster posted it to Facebook
with the caption “She’s my Bonnie and I’m her Clyde.”
If only the boyfriend had posted, "She's my Angela Davis and I'm her Fidel Castro."
Then nothing would have happened.
Or dressed in ANTIFA gear.
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with a veteran.....
yet a veteran SHOULD know to treat all guns as if they were loaded. Never point a gun at something you don't intend to shoot and yet there they are... she's pointing a gun right at the photographer. Bunch of idiots..
Suspending her? Nah... it doesn't rise to the occasion of suspension,. But at least her and the person taking the pictures are clearly morons.
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Shouldn’t have been suspended by yea they’re idiots and are the reason responsible gun owners have to continue to fight for their rights. She will probably still have a hard time finding a job based on the judgement I’ve seen so good luck with supporting that child.
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with a veteran.....
yet a veteran SHOULD know to treat all guns as if they were loaded. Never point a gun at something you don't intend to shoot and yet there they are... she's pointing a gun right at the photographer. Bunch of idiots..
Suspending her? Nah... it doesn't rise to the occasion of suspension,. But at least her and the person taking the pictures are clearly morons.
Yep total morons, but being suspended for something you do on your own personal time is stupid too.
On a side note, why is he holding a wad of cash ???
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Yep total morons, but being suspended for something you do on your own personal time is stupid too.
On a side note, why is he holding a wad of cash ???
Gangsta Image is everything yo