BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A black, 18-year-old senior accused of writing graffiti threatening black students at his suburban Detroit high school has been put on a curfew and ordered to have no contact with the school.
Courtney Thomas was arraigned Wednesday in
Bloomfield Township's 48th District Court on one count of ethnic intimidation.
He is free on bond, but ordered to be home no later
than 7 p.m. daily, have no contact with students threatened by the graffiti and
to stay away from Birmingham's Seaholm High School.
He is suspended from the 1,250-student school, 13
miles northwest of Detroit.
The graffiti appeared April 20. A letter with
derogatory language was found the next day in a teacher's mailbox.
Defense attorney Wendy Barnwell says Thomas has
been the victim of bullying at the school.
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2011 The Associated Press.
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Photo/Birmingham Police Department, Detroit Free Press)
