Ga. teen arrested for gang activity
MySpace Video Leads To Student’s Arrest:
17-year-old Andre Scott of Fayette County High School in Georgia was arrested for gang activity after posting gang related videos on his MySpace.
Fayette County investigators said Scott posted a video of a 14-year-old being
initiated into a gang on his MySpace page.“There was a 14-year-old that was initiating into the Bloods and a Crip member who was also a juvenile was being disciplined for something that some recruiters for the two gangs had organized this fight,” said Fayette County District Attorney Scott Ballard.
After reading that it sounded like he was arrested for just posting the video but that is not the case.
A student at Fayette County High School was arrested today for participating in a “beatdown” gang initiation in a school bathroom Nov. 1, police said.
Andre Scott, 17, of Vickery Lane was charged with four felonies relating to gang activity and one misdemeanor count of disrupting a public school, police said. Fayetteville Police Chief Steve Heaton said Scott is apparently a leader of the gang called GBD, which includes members of the nationally-based gangs the bloods and the crips.
So apparently Scott was either in the video or filmed the video himself. Not the sharpest tool in the shed obviously. If he was smart he wouldn’t do something as cowardly as trying to start a gang.
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3 opinions for Ga. teen arrested for gang activity
Yaminah Mujahid
Jan 17, 2008 at 10:50 pm
I’d just like to say that I’m a junior at Fayette County High School, but I did not know Andre Scott. Let me start by giving an overview of our “national-blue-ribbon-winning” FCHS. It’s a sprawling, two story building. There are never any fights, shootings, stabbings, or violence of any nature. And if it does, it happens once in a blue moon. There are no security guards, metal detectors, or searches; the one Officer Bob we have on duty sits in his office or jokes with the students.
In response to the alleged “gang activity” going on (when we all know this was *MAYBE* the second instance this happened), our principal got the idea that he should lock up the bathrooms.
So now, if anyone out of 1500 students wishes to use a bathroom, we must sign a pass, go up to the front office, wait in line 30-45 minutes, check out the only bathroom key, and use the visitors bathroom. (Even though there are two toilets, we must go in one at a time.) If you do the math (conservatively), one percent of the student population should be in the bathroom at random times during the school day. That’s fifteen people. So, for fifteen people to use the bathroom at one time, regardless of gender, that would be over 2 class periods just to go to the bathroom. How illogical is that?
There is NO extra security, just “Officer Bob.”
Oh yes, we can go freely in-between classes, but have you ever tried walking in a congested hallway, putting your books in your next period class, running to the bathroom that could be two halls away, and coming back before 5 mins are up? Haha to that.
Our school is blowing this incident way out of proportion, when they could have solved this problem with the hiring of three or four security guards. Instructional time is being lost, teachers are pissed, office secretaries are fed up, and the students are CONFORMING because they have no choice (so they think).
What do you think should have been done, giving the circumstances of my pure, blue-ribbon school?
Wade
Feb 19, 2008 at 1:40 pm
I understand why your school system would be pissed off about this change of rules. Last year in my small home town with a graduating class of 55 there was a fight over nothing. Ever since then our principle and board of education has been intolerable. They installed cameras and took away parts of our day that we used as free time. School over react but they do it to save their ass. If something bad would happen and the school did nothing about it then the parents would flip out and sue the school.
Class of 06
Feb 28, 2008 at 12:56 am
I went to fayette county high school and graduated in 06. If I or my buddies could do it over again we wouldnt pick any other place to go to school. It was a great place to go and we loved every teacher we knew. We could use the bathrooms at anytime we wanted to, we had to have a pass but they were unlocked. We had fights all the time, this took place alot. The difference is we faught for different reasons. Fighting is a part of growing up, it happens. We would have incidents occur because someone would hit on anothers girlfriend or someone would say something mean, we didnt claim to be a crip or a blood. What these kids need to realize is this is Fayette County, there is nothing hard about living here at all. If you live in fayette more than likely the average house is $185,000 or more, if you can afford to live in a house that coasts this much, you arent “street” or “hood”. You probably didnt have a hard childhood at all. The problem is what the kids think is cool. I listen to rap music, I dont have a problem with it at all. But to be honest most rappers are fake and rap about what sells, they didnt sell drugs or grow up hard or in a gang. These “gagnsters” need to stop trying to live a life thats not them and honestly if you live in this town is a joke. Its a nice town theres nothing street or hood about it, so stop trying to live the life of Snoop Dogg and Tupac because you dont live im Long Beach or somewhere hard, you live in FAYETTEVILLE! Oh yeah the reason you cant use the bathrooms when you want to is because you all try to have gangs and rep your set. Its your own fault and the only way its going to change is if you, the students and active members of society stop acting like trash, its not all of you but they are the reason you all have it bad.
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