So many questions come out of this. How do a vice principal's low expectations of his students up to and including possible violence affect those students? Do they create (more) distrust and become self fulfilling? Was there a racial component to lead the school authorities to believe there the safety of students was in jeopardy? Did they miss out on a teachable/learnable moment where they could first seek to understand?
Agreed - I feel that the issue here is that none of these questions were investigated in the media and people are making their judgements without knowing even a small portion of the story - nor considering the positions or situations in this case.