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Matanzas Student Who Wrote Song Threatening Dean’s Life Pleads to Deal That May Erase the Charge

April 5, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Joseph Washington, right, with his attorney, Assistant Public Defender Spencer O'Neal, before Circuit Judge Terence Perkins today. (© FlaglerLive)

Joseph Washington, 18, was arrested in January after Matanzas High faculty learned of a song he’d uploaded, threatening Tom Wooleyhan, a dean, by name. He was sentenced to 18 months’ probation on a third-degree felony charge, a plea deal the judge found surprising for its leniency. The charge will be dropped if Washington fulfills its terms over the next 18 months.

‘This Is Wrong,’ Attorney Says of Matanzas Student’s Arrest Over Rap Song Threat, Citing 1st Amendment

March 9, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

Joseph Washington in court on Monday, via Zoom. (© FlaglerLive)

Matanzas High student Joseph Washington, 18, has yet to be charged almost seven weeks after his arrest on an accusation that he threatened a dean in a rap song posted to SoundCloud. On Monday, his attorney called his whole case “wrong” on First Amendment grounds.

18-Year-Old Matanzas High Student Faces Felony Charge Over Song Threatening to Kill Administrator

January 27, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 32 Comments

Joseph Washington's "Bii Blouga Racial Profiling" song as posted on SoundCloud. Not pictured is the Matanzas High School logo topped by an obscenity.

Joseph Washington, a senior at Matanzas High School, wrote, sang, recorded and posted a song about a Matanzas administrator who’d suspended him over a dress-code violation. The song is a succession of obscenities, racism, sexual put-downs, misogynism, and explicit threats to kill not only the administrator but his family.

16-Year-Old FPC Autistic Girl in Sheriff’s Explorer Program Arrested for Threatening Shooting

February 17, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

The girl was immediately discharged from the Flagler County Sheriff's Explorer program upon her arrest. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler Palm Coast High School 16 year old allegedly made several Instagram statements threatening murder and serial killing, and may have been upset over academic issues.

Girl Who Threatened to Kill FPC Teacher in Racist Screed Gets Probation, and Must Write Essay on Hate Speech

February 3, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

The girl was finger--printed immediately after the sentencing in circuit court this afternoon. (© FlaglerLive)

The 17-year-old former Flagler Palm Coast High School girl last December was found guilty of terrorist threats to kill her English teacher through racist-laced electronic messages with another student in December 2018.

Beyond Transgender Student’s Transfer Out of Matanzas, Calls on School Board to Take LGBTQ Safety Seriously

January 22, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

Many in the school board chamber turned their back on Charlene Cothran as the pastor again attacked a transgender student and LGBTQ rights at a meeting of the board Tuesday evening.

A throng of students, faculty members and parents asked the Flagler County School Board Tuesday to support more explicit procedures protecting LGBTQ students as Charlene Cothran, a Palm Coast pastor, again attacked the a transgender student and ridiculed LGBTQ rights.

Calling It Terrorism, Judge Finds FPC Girl Guilty of Threatening to Kill Teacher; She’s Appealing

December 13, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

Circuit Court Judge Chris France, applying an extremely broad definition of terrorism, today found a 17-year-old former Flagler Palm Coast High School student guilty of threatening to kill her teacher through written messages to a fellow-student a year ago.

Amicus Curiae: The 16-Year-Old FPC Girl Was Racist. She Was Stupid. She Was Not Criminal.

December 11, 2019 | Pierre Tristam | 18 Comments

Assistant State Prosecutor Jason Lewis, left, shows FPC School Resource Deputy Jason Williams the computer the 16-year-old girl (now 17) used to write her side of the chat at the heart of the case, with another student, last December. Circuit Judge Chris France heard the case in a non-jury trial last week. A decision is expected in the next few days. (© FlaglerLive)

In the case of an FPC girl who wrote bigoted threats about her teacher last December, the prosecution is making outlandish claims that it was act of terrorism, stretching the meaning of a 2018 law passed after the Parkland massacre. The law does not apply, as even the prosecution acknowledged the case’s weaknesses.

School Deputies Now Equipped With Ankle First Aid Kits and Bullet-Proof Rifle Plates

December 9, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

The ankle kits and armored plates school resource deputies are now wearing.

The Flagler County Sheriff’s school resource deputies are now all equipped with rescue tactical ankle medical kits and rifle plates in case of traumatic incidents. The ankle kits were acquired through a grant, the plates through sheriff’s funds.

FPC Student Faces Felony Charge After NFL Argument Escalates to Death Threat and Insults About Appearance

December 4, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

written threats to kill FPC

Two Flagler Palm Coast High School students arguing over the NFL had an altercation that led to one boy making written death threats against the other boy and his parents, on Instagram.

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