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maddezmom

(135,060 posts)
Thu May 3, 2012, 03:15 PM May 2012

FAMU Hazing Death Included Cover Up Conspiracy, Parents Claim

Source: ABC

The parents of Florida A&M drum major Robert Champion, who died from a hazing attack, alleged today that there was a "calculated conspiracy" to cover-up their son's death.

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"It did not take five months to figure out who murdered Robert Champion. This is not a murder mystery," Champion family attorney Christopher Chestnut said at a news conference today in Atlanta. "There is no excuse for the lack of accountability."

"We have learned that there was a calculated conspiracy to cover up Robert Champion's murder," he said. "We have heard that alumni were communicating with students on that bus, telling them how to respond, what to say, what not to say in order to ensure that no one would be arrested and charged for murder. That is simply inexcusable."

Chestnut said he has statements from students who revealed these communications. He would not say how many statements he has, but said that he suspects several of the statements came from the same 13 people who have been charged in the hazing.


Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/famu-hazing-death-included-cover-conspiracy-parents-claim/story?id=16269331

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FAMU Hazing Death Included Cover Up Conspiracy, Parents Claim (Original Post) maddezmom May 2012 OP
no doubt the school was in CYA mode Blue_Tires May 2012 #1
All of that "fine, upstanding, cream of middle-class America" = the sound of silence about patrice May 2012 #2
It's just so disgusting the school admin and alum would condone hazing. Dont call me Shirley May 2012 #3
K&R n/t The Northerner May 2012 #4

patrice

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2. All of that "fine, upstanding, cream of middle-class America" = the sound of silence about
Thu May 3, 2012, 04:10 PM
May 2012

Robert Champion's murder.

wow.

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