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Pinellas County Sheriffs Office investigating incident of transgender student being attacked after displaying Pride flag

BY MITCH PERRY PINELLAS COUNTY
PUBLISHED 5:35 PM ET JUN. 03, 2021

The Pinellas County Sheriffs Department is investigating an incident that took place last Friday at Seminole Middle School, where a transgender student and their friends were physically attacked for displaying the rainbow Pride flag. Several students have been suspended for their involvement in the incident, and some of those students have been expelled Leo Hoffman, a 12-year-old transgender student, was enjoying a picnic with their friends on the school campus while displaying the Pride flag last week. They were then confronted by a male student who grabbed the flag and threw it into the garbage, according to Benjamin Hoffman, Leos father.
After Leo retrieved the flag and put it on their back like a cape, the same male student snatched it back, resulting in Leo being knocked to the ground and stepped on. The scene was captured by cellphone video and now has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times, according to Benjamin Hoffman.

Seminole Middle School Principal Dr. Michael Moss and some of his staff then began investigating the incident throughout the holiday weekend to determine which students were involved in the incident.
Isabel Mascareas, the public information officer for Pinellas County Schools, says that the behavior was inappropriate and not acceptable, leading to the suspension of a group of students, with certain students being reassigned to an alternative school (she would not say how many students have been disciplined).
We teach our students to accept and respect everyone for who they are, she says. This is a district that values diversity and promotes inclusion.
I hate to see someones kid expelled from school, says Benjamin Hoffman. But you cant lay your hands on another person. Its just not acceptable.
Representatives from Equality Florida were made aware of the incident earlier this week.
Its important that this type of incident is not just brushed under the rug, says Gina Duncan, the director of transgender equality with the LGBTQ rights organization. When we see discrimination and certainly when we see violence against our young people in schools, this is something that we have to address.
A 2015 study conducted by the National Center for Transgender Equality found that more than 77 percent of those who were out or perceived as transgender at some point between kindergarten and 12thgrade have experienced some form of mistreatment. More than 54 percent of those people said that they were verbally harassed, 24 percent were physically attacked and 13 percent were sexually assaulted.
Benjamin Hoffman says all things considered, Leo is doing well, though he opted to keep them out of class this week in the waning days of the school year.
Leo was frightened. Not so much for themselves but for their friends. Leo is very strong and would do anything to protect their friends, he says.
Mascareas says that the teachers at Seminole Middle High are reviewing and reinforcing its stated school values this week in class, which are respect, tolerance, cooperation and diversity. And she says that the school will implement a bully prevention program when the school year resumes later this year.
This is not the first incident of bullying that Spectrum Bay News 9 has been made aware of this year at Seminole Middle School. In April we reported on the case of Alicia Smith, who reported being harassed and bullied on several occasions after she was seen wearing a pro-Donald Trump facemask and ball cap in class. She had to wear the cap because she has alopecia, a condition that causes hair to fall out.

There have been doubts about the truthfulness of this defector for a rather long time. This lengthy article from 2014 goes into some of the inconsistentcies in her stories.

https://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-park/

Some highlights from the article.

On her being a reality tv star in South Korea.

Buried in the shows archives are some snapshots of Parks childhood in North Korea that explain why shes known on the show as the Paris Hilton of North Korea. Theyre in sharp contrast to the story shes now telling her international audience.In one episode in early 2013 she appears with her mother. Family photographs are flashed on the screen and Park jokes, Thats my Mum there. Shes beautiful right? To be honest, Im not the Paris Hilton. My mum is the real Paris Hilton. Park then goes on to point out the top and chequered pants her mother is wearing were all imported from Japan and adds, My mum even carried around a Chanel bag in North Korea, to which the host responds incredulously, There are Chanel bags in North Korea? Park tells him there are and he then asks another woman if shed classify Parks family as rich. The woman answers, Yes, thats right.

On how she intends to tell her story

Yeonmi Park is backed by the American Libertarian non-profit organization, Atlas Foundation. Shes one of its Young Voices and has recently started her own foundation based in New York you can donate online through PayPal, but what exactly your money will be used for is not clear. What is clear though, is that Yeonmi is travelling and speaking in 2014 and is available for international speeches.

Now when it is revealed that she has set up her own foundation in New York to receive donations she offers an immediate and dubious explanation

But one very important thing to correct: I do not have a foundation. The website was a dummy site built by a friend, and it was not supposed to be live. There was no way it could accept money, and I havent taken any. I am so sorry for the confusion. The site has been taken down.

That tells me she's full of shit and a grifter the same flavor as a Jimmy Dore or Candice Owens.
Her friend built a dummy site that takes donations but it was never supposed to work.
Please.
You don't have to be Wumao to see this women is a liar and a grifter.

Thompson posted...

I'd love to see the reaction of the "patriotic conservatives" to hearing Born in the USA read out loud like it was a poem.

https://youtu.be/poKZSesXWqA.

^That one's even more perplexing.
What do they actually think Fortunate Son is about?

They think the same about Starship Troopers.
Paul Verhoven's brand of satire is lost on them.

Boys will be boys huh?
If this was a bunch of black kids beating down a white kid. The usual suspects here would have a completely different take.

The delta variant cases in the UK.

The more transmissible Delta variant is surging across all parts of the UK, new data shows.
As Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a four-week delay to the planned 21 June unlocking in England, data shows that the variant originating in India is now the dominant strain, edging out the Alpha Kent variant first identified in the UK before Christmas.
The UK Governments chief medical adviser Chris Whitty laid out the data, warning of an increase in the new variant is occurring across the whole country.

The Brits have delayed coming out of lockdown because of it.

Kid's father's statement..

Condemnation for those actions on this board.
Minimal.
Disgusting little shits no doubt learned that behavior from their parents.

Fairly obvious why it's better to have a college degree.

I am in favor of the death penalty but not as it is currently being used at the moment.
There are far too many people being convicted on shaky evidence. It is being applied far too often and disproportionately on ethnic minorities and men.
That being said in exceptional cases(which this is) and when guilt has been established beyond all doubt(which it has) then to me a death sentence is warranted just like it was for Timothy McVeigh.
The absurd virtue signalling on here over this piece of shit terrorist amazes me.

STEROLIZER posted...

Color me ill-informed. As I've stated repeatedly I can only judge him based on my own experience. I only know him from crypto.

I don't hang out at the politics board or whatever. If I ever experience the behavior y'all are describing then I'll deal with it.

Until then, can y'all maybe give the crypto board a shot now that they are no longer active users: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/1285-bitcoin-and-cryptocurrency

You've been informed guy and yet here we are.
Don't think I'll be checking your board out.

Shadow sucks as a poster.
Anyone going to bat for him is either ill informed or shares his views
The dude in this thread is the latter.

Should have retained the testicle as an exhibit for the trial.
Before they shot him for treason.

VioletMassacre posted...

That would be too kind.

Too kind huh?
Yeah I read you loud and clear.
Me I look forward to day when all pedophiles everywhere face justice.
Every fucking one of them.

VioletMassacre posted...

Fair enough.

30 years is a lot, what do they give for murders?

But as Ive already said, this dude seems unhinged enough that locking him up a long time seems like the right thing to do.

We don't have a legal definition for "unhinged" guy and people can't be sentenced indefinitely for it.
I mean I agree with short sentences for people who rape children.
Person rapes child.
Person is found guilty of raping child
Person is sentenced to death and immediately executed for raping child.
Simple.

Kid played the system.
The dude worshipping him as if he's the next Warren Buffett is fucking hilarious.

unnamedsoldier posted...

Man didn't take long for this topic to get Godwin'd

Indeed.

Blond haired pretty girl is the ideal representation of feminism huh?
I've seen that somewhere before.



Oh yeah now I remember.

VioletMassacre posted...

It shouldnt be allowed to go lol already been in jail when he hasnt even yet been convicted for this actual crime. He seems unhinged enough that he shouldnt be released in public at all.

As CE always says; yikes.

Nah the yikes would be what this guy did and got away with.
Child rapists like him should be punished to the full extent of the law.
Which in this state is 30 years.
Wouldn't you agree?

SomeLikeItHoth posted...

Why does he look so happy?

on the charges of Sexual Assault of a Child which occurred July 1, 2018 and Aggravated Assault Causing Serious Bodily Injury which occurred on September 2, 2018. Binnion had previously pled guilty to both charges
On the charge of Sexual Assault of a Child, a second degree felony, for which the range of punishment is 2 to 20 years, Judge Kitchens made no finding of guilt and placed Binnion on deferred adjudication probation for 10 years with multiple conditions including serving an additional 180 days in the Polk County Jail and registering as a sex offender. The State, through Assistant District Attorney Rachel Ellsworth, stated their opposition to the decision of the court to place the Defendant on deferred adjudication probation

Fix was likely in even then.

gatorsPENSbucs posted...

once Binnion is released and he must register as a sex offender.

Also, the topic title is misleading but what else is new

Eli Donavan Salina Binnion, of Livingston, to 3 years in state prison and 180 days in county jail

Binnion had already been confined in the Polk County Jail for 2 years and 9 months awaiting trial, his credit for time served reduces his total jail time

The topic doesn't even begin to do this one justice.
He plead guilty to the charge of sexual assualt of a child and the judge found guilt wasn't determined and gave him probation.
Wrap your mind round that one.
He was sent back to jail for assaulting a prisoner not raping a child.
Topic title should read.

"Pedo rapist admits guilt and is found not guilty by corrupt judge and sentenced to Zero days in jail for child rape"

Oh and it gets worse, he wasn't sentenced to jail for the rape of a child. Despite pleading guilty to the charge.

Judge Hands Down Light Sentence for Child Rapist, LIVINGSTON, June 4, 2021 -On June 3, 2021, Eli Donavan Salina Binnion, age 22, was sentenced by the Honorable Travis E. Kitchens, Jr., presiding judge of the 258th Judicial District Court in Polk County, on the charges of Sexual Assault of a Child which occurred July 1, 2018 and Aggravated Assault Causing Serious Bodily Injury which occurred on September 2, 2018. Binnion had previously pled guilty to both charges.

On the charge of Sexual Assault of a Child, a second degree felony, for which the range of punishment is 2 to 20 years, Judge Kitchens made no finding of guilt and placed Binnion on deferred adjudication probation for 10 years with multiple conditions including serving an additional 180 days in the Polk County Jail and registering as a sex offender. The State, through Assistant District Attorney Rachel Ellsworth, stated their opposition to the decision of the court to place the Defendant on deferred adjudication probation

He was in fact sentenced for breaking the jaw of another prisoner while awaiting trial.

As to the charge of Aggravated Assault Causing Serious Bodily Injury, a second degree felony for which the range of punishment is 2 to 20 years, Kitchens assessed punishment at 3 years confinement in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Having previously served 991 days in the Polk County Jail pending disposition of the case, Binnion will complete this sentence in approximately 104 days.

http://www.polkcountytoday.com/darelease060421.html

Incredible.
This stinks to high heaven

The pedophile rapist.
What a shocker.

Kind_Heart posted...

We can't be sure if it was deliberate. This article says that he was having issues with his truck a few days before.
https://nypost.com/2021/06/09/suspect-in-attack-on-muslim-family-laughed-during-arrest-report/amp/

He doesn't look like someone who would do a thing like this. But well... looks can be deceiving.

You left out some things from that article guy.

The man accused of plowing his pickup truck into a Muslim family in what Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called a terrorist attack was reportedly wearing body armor and laughed as police arrested him. The alleged attacker was wearing what appeared to be a bulletproof vest, a military-style helmet and clothing that perhaps was covered with swastikas, Savehilaghi said the cabbie told him.

If the NY post of all papers is reporting that then this guy is likely a white supremacist terrorist.

VioletMassacre posted...

Have I missed something?

Since you're one of them I'd say so guy

ROOTFayth posted...

I mean you could be right, there certainly won't be any tears or meltdown from me over some random dude who killed someone (voluntarily or not) because he was too insecure with his sexuality

Nah course not dude. All your posts in this thread suggest you're completely impartial and objective in this case.

ROOTFayth posted...

I'm not sure, somewhere between 5 and 15 yrs in prison maybe?

I'm no lawyer as I said earlier but from what I've read online what actually transpired is really more consistent with voluntary manslaughter than 2nd degree murder, that's usually the sentences for these types of cases

5-15 years huh?
In these types of cases.
Got some evidence for that assertion.
Be a shame when this piece of shit gets 25 to life. Be fun watching the meltdown on here.

ROOTFayth posted...

he was upset because he was tricked into having gay sex when he's straight, understandably upsetting

What do you think would be an appropriate charge and sentence for him guy?

Well this thread went as expected.
That's ten posters I now have tagged with regards to this subject.
Disgusting.

Yep.
Which means I have the majority of this board beat. No doubt the usual transphobes will be using the "black friend" defense in this thread.

We're practically there on this board.

Coming soon to a thread on this board

"Should "non declared" trans people have to declare their birth gender on a register that anyone can access"

CE man CE.

What an utter shit show this thread is.
Absolutely appalling takes all round.
Far far to many people looking for excuses and justifications to explain/excuse what this guy did.
Then bringing up somebodies dead girlfriend when trying to lecture the board about having empathy for others
The hatred on here for LGBTQ is out of control and apparently people are now comfortable in intimating that murder shouldn't be an unexpected result when "lying" about your sex to a partner.
Ugly is not even the word .

Just tell her it smells like something just crawled into her downstairs basement and died. You can help her get it out and give it a proper burial but until then you're just not going down there.

Xethuminra posted...

One

one fucking movie

Two fucking rules guy

Lord_Shadow posted...

Good Fuck that guy
I'm now the only Lord Shadow

Why are the people most in favor of "free speech" and against deplatforming. The ones that nobody really wants to read or listen to. Insufferable idiotic smug nobodies with nothing remotely interesting to say. Ever.
Weird.