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Internet video results in suspension of Lyons student By James Pluta A 16-year-old Lyons boy recently served a 10-day suspension from classes at Riverside Brookfield High School for displaying guns and making street gang slogans with another student on the Internet social networking website Facebook — but is not being criminally charged. The students, who both received the same punishment, were recently pulled out of classes when the photographic evidence was revealed, announced interim superintendent David Bonnette. The video, which Riverside police were told by the Lyons boy was shot in a friend’s Maywood home, was on the website since November. Police also stated one of the two weapons shown in the tape is a BB gun while the other is real. Because the students did not threaten violence to anyone and that police did not recover any of the guns in question, the Cook County State’s Attorneys Office would not approve criminal charges against the students The suspensions occurred several days after District 208 officials conducted a major sweep of the school with police and drug-sniffing dogs. As a result, one student was held for drug possession. Students were informed by school officials that posting embarrassing, illegal and detrimental information, photos or videos on the Internet could catch up with them in the future and risk their loss of potential jobs, educational opportunities and reputation. |
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