Florida’s governor wants the president of Florida A&M University suspended amid multiple investigations spurred by a drum major’s death.
Republican Rick Scott called the chairman of the FAMU board on Thursday and asked him to suspend James Ammons immediately. The board met last week and discussed suspending Ammons, but instead voted to publicly reprimand him. The board meets again Monday.
It was Scott who ordered Florida’s law-enforcement agency to join an investigation into the death of Marching 100 band member Robert Champion. He died following a FAMU football game last month and hazing is suspected in his death.
State law enforcement officials said earlier this week they have opened a second investigation into possible criminal violations dealing with the band’s finances.
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As a student at Florida A&M University firing the president of our university will not solve anything. Ammons can not control GROWN men and women they are going to do what they want to do, no matter who’s the president. The govern wants to stick his noise into FAMU business but not give us any funding. WAKE UP PEOPLE they are trying to take away every HBCU that is why FAMU has been in the news for the last few weeks. We need to come together as ONE HBCU to fight this war not stand divided.