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Trainees and instructors held rallies outside her school and the court in Michigan.
A Michigan judge’s choice to send a 15- year-old girl to juvenile detention for breaking her probation by not finishing her online schoolwork throughout the coronavirus lockdown has triggered protests and requires her release.
The African-American teen has actually reportedly been detained given that mid-May.
Hundreds of trainees collected outside her school and the court to reveal their support for the girl referred to as “Grace”.
The state’s supreme court stated on Thursday it would evaluate her case.
ProPublica highlighted Grace’s case in a report earlier today Following interviews with Grace’s mother, the news site described how the teen had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and had already been dealing with behavioural problems.
She had actually been placed on probation in mid-April via a zoom juvenile court hearing after dealing with an assault and theft charge last year; among the regards to the probation was a requirement to do her schoolwork.
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