A COVER UP IN PLAIN SIGHT

The DCFPlantation blog posted a story March 16, 2013 titled Weather Gone Wild or All Eyes On Me. In the story it is described how a Caucasian Youth Services Officer at Connecticut Juvenile Training School assaulted a resident of color  [click on March 16th story to read report of assault] and received a minor disciplinary action. What I wish to address in this story today is the good old boy network within the CJTS plantation that covers these matters up. A cover up in plain sight is a beautiful thing if it can be pulled off. What you do is change facts and thinking to make people believe that what was seen or perceived is not real. Take for instance the September 10, 1993 fight between Champions Pernell Whitaker 32-1 and Julio Cesar Chavez 87-0 for Welterweight titles at 145 pounds. In plain sight of millions of people Pernell "Sweet Pea" Whitaker gave Chavez a  "ghetto and project" beating and boxing lesson to go with it-angles, feints, slipping punches were common with Pernell throughout the fight. However, when Jose Sulaiman, president of the World Boxing Council collected the score cards from referees judging the fight, this became a cover up in plain sight. The fight was called a draw thus protecting Chavez legend as a great fighter. But what people saw, and what the outcome led to, is a cover up in plain sight.
When the white YSO assaulted the resident of color it appeared to be open and shut case; policy states that YSO should have been arrested for assault and fired. White administrators became part of the cover up at CJTS in the following ways: 1. a small group of sympathetic supervisors were part of the dialogue with this YSO, 2. On several occasions a similar cadre often sat in harsh judgment of YSOs of color about various infractions, 3. the resident in a discussion right after the incident was given a lesser definition of what happened to consider against the white YSO. No such helping hand during investigations are offered to YSOs of color: in the case of other YSOs white administrators go 'mole whackng' when a YSO of color gets in trouble, white management knocks off their heads using policy / procedure as cudgels. A cover up in plain sight of a YSO is what happened. What people saw clearly pointed to a white DCF employee slapping a resident of color. What management wanted people to see is a mistake by a YSO and nothing else. Well, read the two documents attached to March 16, 2013 blog story and tell me if this is not a cover up in plain sight.