Well, the testimony given by some presently is that they were "following the rules" as they knew hem, and were booted anyway.
Makes it hard to know what to do, if a person can be swept up for just standing too close to the suspects, usuall, or otherwise.
That, has seemed to me to be the "real" gripe. Not that any objected to a "time out" per se; it was suspensions turning into explusions without explanastion, without "cause" as it were.
But, that's just my impression of things, too.
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