Hazing-related death shocks FAMU band alums in Atlanta

[j1908]

http://www.ajc.com/news/hazing-related-death-shocks-1257765.html

[Brother Tony]

 

[SkegeeFAMU]

Here is a blog concerning this:

http://blogs.ajc.com/get-schooled-blog/2011/12/08/hazing-a-life-stolen-in-a-dangerous-tradition-that-will-not-go-away/

This is to the point where no matter what the university does, what heads roll, how many heads roll, or how many years The 100 gets suspended, FAMU is in a cannot win situation when it comes to the courts of public opinion.  

The fact revealed that Dr. White himself considered not letting the band attend the Florida Classic really speaks volumes about the internal issues that The 100 is having.  To even consider pulling the band from one of the largest fundraising weekends of the year, even though they were allowed to go, really says a lot.  Plus it doesn't do the band or the university any favors concerning the investigation.

[j1908]

^^^^Careful Skeegee you might get labeled being biased. With all the information you are regurgitating from news articles.

[soflorattler]

Being "unbiased" is a good thing.


un·bi·ased/ˌənˈbīəst/
Adjective:   
Showing no prejudice for or against something; impartial.

[j1908]

Being "unbiased" is a good thing.


un·bi·ased/ˌənˈbīəst/
Adjective:   
Showing no prejudice for or against something; impartial.

Let me correct that for you biased.

[y04185]

http://www.ajc.com/news/hazing-related-death-shocks-1257765.html

Thanks for posting.

[soflorattler]

Being "unbiased" is a good thing.


un·bi·ased/ˌənˈbīəst/
Adjective:   
Showing no prejudice for or against something; impartial.

Let me correct that for you biased.

Correct it for me??   I'm not the  poster who used the word in their post. I simply posted the correct meaning of the term used. 

[j1908]

^^^^I was being sarcastic

[soflorattler]

[SkegeeFAMU]

^^^^Careful Skeegee you might get labeled being biased. With all the information you are regurgitating from news articles.

Thanks for looking out for me J!!!  Always great to have friends in high places.    As a professional business and financial consultant, I get paid to piss folks off, give unbiased opinions, and tell them what they don't necessarily want to hear.    I've been conditioned to tell it like it is, to be honest, and don't give a damn about what the next person thinks.   Anybody who knows me know that I don't hold back on any institution or organization that I have been a part of, be it TU, FAMU, The 100 Black Men, or Kappa.  I'm as hard, if not harder on them than I am on others.

In all seriousness, as a grad school alum of FAMU, I want to see the university, and The 100 emerge from this a better, stronger institution.  I don't want to see Robert Champion's death be in vain.  We need to take the bad from all of this to root hazing out of all of our institutions, and organizations.  This needs to be a serious wake up call for all of our institutions and organizations, or else they will all be extinct in the next 20 years or so.  

[SkegeeFAMU]

Three arrested in hazing of Bria Hunter!!

And, no, this isn't regurgitating old information.

http://www.ajc.com/news/dekalb/police-charge-3-in-1258429.html

http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/TPD_Investigating_FAMU_Hazing_Complaint_134716503.html

TPD: Warrants Issued for Hazing

Tallahassee, FL -- December 12, 2011 --

On November 08, 2011, The Tallahassee Police Department responded to FAMU campus for a report of a battery. The victim, identified as Bria Hunter, had initially reported the case to FAMU Police Department but it was determined the incident occurred within TPD’s jurisdiction.

Further investigation by the Criminal Investigation Unit determined the incident to be hazing. On December 12, 2011, the Tallahassee Police Department obtained warrants and subsequently arrested the following individuals in connection to the case:

Sean Hobson Black Male DOB: 10/01/88
Charges- One Count Hazing & One count Felony Battery

Aaron Golson Black Male DOB: 06/28/92
Charges- One Count Hazing & One Count Felony Battery

James Harris Black Male DOB:05/08/89
Charges- One Count Hazing

All were taken to Leon County Jail for processing.

NOTE: Probable Cause attached above
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Police charge 3 in Florida A&M band with hazing

Tallahassee, FL (AP) - Police have arrested three Florida A&M
band members for allegedly beating a female member so severely
during hazing rituals that they broke her thigh.

The Tallahassee police said Monday that in hazing ceremonies
Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 the three struck Bria Shante Hunter's legs with
their fists and with a metal ruler to initiate her into the "Red
Dawg Order." It's a band clique for students who come from
Georgia.

Hunter told police that days later the pain became unbearable,
so she went to the hospital. It was discovered that her thigh bone
was broken and that she had blood clots in her legs.

Hunter's beatings came about three weeks before FAMU drum major
Robert Champion died after an alleged hazing incident during a trip
to Orlando.

[j1908]

Skeegee, didn't I tell you to stop posting stuff about FAMU because you will be labeled as biased.

[SkegeeFAMU]

Skeegee, didn't I tell you to stop posting stuff about FAMU because you will be labeled as biased.

I'm going to stand in the corner!!!

[Cholly]

Remember what I said earlier about the hazing being gang related? About it being associated with South West Dekalb High? READ:

Police arrest 3 in Florida A&M University student's beating

By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 9:40 PM EST, Mon December 12, 2011

(CNN) -- Three members of Florida A&M University's marching band have been charged with hazing a fellow member of the famous Marching 100 who took her complaints to police.
 
The freshman suffered a cracked femur, deep bone bruising and blood clots after being beaten repeatedly on the thighs by two of her fellow students, according to arrest affidavits from Tallahassee police.
 
The victim, Bria Hunter, went to the hospital on November 7 -- a week after her beating and nearly two weeks before the suspected hazing-related death of Robert Champion, a 26-year-old drum major for the legendary marching band. The school's board of trustees voted last week to reprimand its president in the wake of Champion's death, and the band's director has been placed on administrative leave while state police investigate.
 
Incidents of hazing have followed the FAMU band for years. In 2001, a student was paddled so badly he had to be hospitalized for kidney failure, and just weeks before Champion's death, band director Julian White suspended 26 members for hazing.
 
The three suspects -- 23-year-old Sean Hobson, 19-year-old Aaron Golson and 22-year-old James Harris -- were booked Monday. All three are charged with hazing, a crime under Florida law, while Hobson and Golson are charged with felony battery as well.
 
In interviews with detectives, Hobson and Harris denied any physical abuse took place.
 
According to the affidavits, all three are members of the "Red Dawg Order," a group of band students from Georgia. Hunter told police she was asked to join the group and was subjected to physical abuse on October 31 after she falsely told Hobson that she skipped a meeting of the order to attend a meeting of her section.
 
"For the deceit, Hunter stated that she was lined up with approximately 11 other pledges with her being at the front," the affidavit recounts. She said she was hit more than 20 times by Hobson and Golson on that occasion, and hit with a metal ruler in another meeting at Harris' apartment the next day.
 
Three witnesses corroborated Hunter's account, the affidavit states.
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PLEASE keep in mind that "The Red DAWGS" are NOT officially affiliated with the Band. There are band members in the Red DAWGS just like there are NON band members in the gang.

It is NOT recognized by the University and organizations like it are specifically BANNED.

What you folks will see as this and the Champion investigations play out, is that this hazing was primarily centered around that gang and NOT "The 100." Again, while there are FAMU band members in it, it is NOT a Marching 100 organization. It is a people from Atlanta organization and it is completely illegal by every definition at FAMU.