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    Police, Miami Edison students dispute cause of melee

    MIAMI EDISON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

    Police, Miami Edison students dispute cause of melee

    Friday's brawl heightened community concerns about relations between police, school administrators and students.

    Posted on Sat, Mar. 01

    Police officers rushed into the building. Teenagers stood up and shouted, some throwing milk cartons and bottles of water.

    Students, teachers and community members were alarmed by the scene Friday at Miami Edison Senior High School after a peaceful student demonstration rapidly deteriorated into a lunchtime melee, and there were differing accounts of why things escalated.

    ''It was crazy,'' said senior Jimmy Hyppolite, 18. ''Everyone was screaming and running, pushing. There were kids in handcuffs. Some kids were crying.'' The fight involved hundreds of teens and scores of police officers. At one point, no fewer than 60 police cruisers surrounded the school's campus, at 6161 NW Fifth Ct. in Miami.

    At least 24 students were arrested on charges of rioting, disrupting a school function and resisting arrest with violence, police sources said. Ten officers were treated at the scene for minor injuries. At least a half-dozen students were hurt or suffered respiratory problems.

    The brawl, the third outbreak of violence in Miami-Dade schools in three days, underscored Haitian community tensions with police.

    PARENTS PROTEST

    At a rally Friday evening, community members questioned the police response. Dozens of angry students, parents and activists packed the area outside Edison's main entrance. Students who saw the ruckus and activists from the Power U Center for Social Change and the Miami Workers Center shouted out demands of police and school officials.

    ''We want them to drop all charges against students and release all that were arrested,'' senior Chris Ford Green told television crews.

    Superintendent Rudy Crew called the incident ``unfortunate.''

    ''We encourage student expression; however, misconduct by anyone including students and staff will not be tolerated,'' Crew wrote in a statement.

    ``We will . . . meet with members of the Edison community to resolve the issues at hand.''

    The disturbance followed a sit-in demonstration during the school's first lunch period, at about 11:30 a.m., schools spokesman Quintin Taylor said. Students said the sit-in was intended to be peaceful.

    The students were protesting a confrontation Thursday between Assistant Principal Javier Perez and a student who had been arrested at the school. District officials did not name the student, but classmates identified him as senior Wadson Sagaille, 17.

    Miami-Dade Schools Detective Ed Torrens said administrators had told Edison's school resource police officer a walkout was rumored for about 9:15 a.m. Friday. The walkout didn't happen, he said.

    CHAIRS THROWN

    Three or four officers attended lunch to monitor and answer questions about Thursday's arrest, Torrens said. Students began throwing chairs at officers and spitting at them, he said, and some chairs hit other students. ''Then those students wanted to fight back, and it went south fast,'' Torrens said.

    The fights spilled into the courtyard. Officers began radioing for ''315s'' -- code for officers needing assistance.

    Junior Sabrina Francois, 16, said the violence began when police showed up: Police ``hit a pregnant girl with a stick. Even if they were just standing by, they hit so many girls.''

    Senior Jenson Dolce, 18, said students were throwing milk and yogurt at the officers. The police ''pushed me into a fire extinguisher trying to contain the crowd,'' said Dolce, who needed stitches for a cut to the hand.

    Although students alleged Tasers were used, Miami-Dade Schools spokesman John Schuster said schools police don't carry stun guns and Miami-Dade Police Union President John Rivera and Miami Police spokesman Delrish Moss said they did not believe their officers used Tasers.

    EARLIER INCIDENT

    Schools spokesman Taylor gave this account of the incident Thursday that generated Friday's demonstration:

    Assistant principal Perez spotted Sagaille roaming the hallways alone and thought he might be skipping school. ''He fled,'' Taylor said. ``He became defiant.''

    Perez caught up with Sagaille at about 1:30 p.m. inside classroom F211.

    According to a police report, Sagaille saw Miami-Dade Schools Officer Einsley Joseph standing in the doorway, turned back and grabbed the assistant principal ``by his neck and pushed him back off his feet.''

    ''I intervened by restraining [Sagaille], who fled down the hallway,'' Joseph wrote.

    The officer found Sagaille inside classroom G203 and asked the student to go to the assistant principal's office.

    ''I made an attempt at that time to take [Sagaille] into custody due to the fact that the entire classroom had stood up and disrupted neighboring classrooms,'' Joseph wrote.

    Joseph, a Haitian American, said Sagaille damaged computers and kicked a glass fire extinguisher cover while being arrested.

    Students gave a different account. Perez put the student ''in a choke hold,'' said Julian Jean-Simon, a senior. ``The cop tried to stop it.''

    ''The children are livid,'' said an Edison teacher who spoke on the condition of anonymity. ``They felt it wasn't fair or just.''

    Schools spokesman Schuster said Perez has ``extensive experience.''

    ''His colleagues say he's an exemplary educator with an excellent track record,'' Schuster said.

    Sagaille declined several requests to comment Friday. His extended family has been torn apart by gun violence and death, as documented by a Miami Herald report in January. A number of close relatives -- descendants of family patriarch Joe Cooper -- have been wounded or killed in recent years.

    A woman who answered the phone at Principal Jean Teal's office said Teal would not comment.

    In addition to the 12 male and 12 female students arrested, three adult men with no known connection to the school were arrested on trespassing charges.

    TENSE MEETING

    The brawl and arrests shocked Little Haiti. At a tense meeting later Friday at the Jean-Jacques Dessalines center, Edison parents sought a list of those arrested and the condition of any student sent to the hospital.

    Parents and Haitian leaders demanded a full investigation, and school officials promised one.

    Construction worker Edwin Alvarez, whose daughter Jeislee, 18, was arrested, was among a group of angry relatives and classmates gathered outside the Miami-Dade Juvenile Assessment Center, 275 NW Second St., while the students were processed.

    ''She was arrested and treated like a criminal for just being in the area,'' Alvarez said of Jeislee, adding that she is part of a student group that fights violence. ``I have no idea how she's doing.''

    `RESTORATIVE JUSTICE'

    At the Edison rally, demonstrators vented their displeasure with Perez.

    ''We want them to arrest and fire Mr. Perez, and we want restorative justice. Do not retaliate against students who are here,'' Green, the Edison senior, told TV crews.

    It has been a violent week in North Dade schools. On Thursday, a student was shot in the ear while breaking up a fight at Norland High School.

    Wednesday, a 14-year-old female student expelled last year from the private North Dade Academy in Opa-locka attempted and failed to shoot the principal.

    Miami Herald staff writers Charles Rabin, Trenton Daniel, Laura Morales, Peter Bailey, Matthew I. Pinzur and Tim Chapman contributed to this report.

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    Just as bad, if not worse than L.A.

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    Edison students call for charges to be dropped
    Posted on Fri, Feb. 29,
    BY LAURA MORALES
    llmorales@MiamiHerald.com

    With the setting sun and the noise of I-95 in the background, scores of angry students, parents and activists packed Miami Edison High's main entrance Friday to protest the arrest of two dozen students after a morning melee at the school.

    The crowd was angry at Assistant Principal Javier Perez involving an incident the previous day in which a student had been arrested at the school. District officials did not name the student, but classmates identified him as 17-year-old senior Wadson Sagaille.

    ''Put Perez in jail!'' the teens chanted, dancing and waving fists in the air.

    Students who experienced the lunchtime ruckus and activists from the Power U Center for Social Change and the Miami Worker's Center shouted out a list of demands from police and school officials.

    ''We want them to drop all charges against students and release all that were arrested,'' senior Chris Ford Green told assembled television crews.

    ''We want them to arrest and fire Mr. Perez and we want restorative justice. Do not retaliate against students who are here,'' he added.

    Daisy McDuffie, whose pregnant daughter, Tangina, was taken to North Shore hospital after the rumble, spoke of Tangina's ordeal:

    ''They pushed her and hit her in the stomach. I want something done!'' she shouted at the cameras.

    Tara Gedeus, 18, told The Miami Herald that she witnessed Tangina's treatment. ''I was there, they walked right over her; I saw it,'' she said angrily.

    Activist Max Rameau, of the group Miami CopWatch, said that local school and police officials ``seem to be more concerned with arresting young black people than with educating young black people.''

    Green challenged authorities to comply with the group's demands. ''If they don't meet our demands by Monday, we will be back here to protest Monday morning,'' he said.

    Alvin Smith, president of the Edison Alumni Association, assured those present that he had spoken to authorities and that detained students will be released.

    ''I ask you to please show up here on Sunday at 2 p.m. with your parents to meet with administrators,'' he said in a conciliatory tone. ``Please be here on Sunday; it's important to get your parents involved.''

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    Other incidents in S. Fla. schools

    Other incidents in S. Fla. schools

    Posted on Sat, Mar. 01, 2008

    • Norland High, Thursday: Javaris Cross, 17, was shot in the left ear while trying to break up a fight.

    • North Dade Academy, Wednesday: A 14-year-old girl attempted to gun down the principal who expelled her more than a year ago. The gun jammed.

    • William Dandy Middle, 2007: A 13-year-old girl slashed another, 15, in the face with a razor blade.

    • Weston High, 2006: A 15-year-old boy used a gun to kill his principal, John Klang.

    • Southwood Middle, 2003: Knife-wielding Michael Hernandez, 14, was charged with first-degree murder in the death of best friend Jaime Gough.

    • Killian High, 1996: At least two students were arrested and two others were badly beaten in a fight between blacks and Hispanics that spilled into the streets.

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    Slide show | Violence at Miami Edison Senior High

    Slide show | Violence at Miami Edison Senior High

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    Teen shot at Norland Thursday recovering

    NORTH MIAMI-DADE

    Teen shot at Norland Thursday recovering

    A teen was shot while trying to break up a fight at Miami Norland High. It was the second attack in a North Miami-Dade school in two days.

    Posted on Fri, Feb. 29, 2008
    BY BEGOÑE CAZALIS, TRENTON DANIEL AND DAVID OVALLE
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    Javaris Cross, devout Baptist teenager, gospel fan, musician, was helping to break up a fight outside the Miami Norland Senior High band room when students began stampeding.

    He ran, too. Then someone noticed the blood.

    Javaris had been shot in the left ear.

    His shooting Thursday -- he'll survive -- marked the second attack at a North Miami-Dade school over two days.

    A day earlier, a 14-year-old girl with a history of mental problems tried to shoot the principal at a small Opa-locka school that had expelled her more than a year ago. The teen's gun jammed.

    She also tried to set the principal's car ablaze. Opa-locka police arrested her.

    ''When I get out, I'm coming back to get her again,'' she said, according to an Opa-locka police report.

    Back outside Norland High, schools detectives Thursday night were still sorting out what happened to Javaris, a senior. A fight between girls had broken out on the north side of the school, 1050 NW 195th St., Miami Gardens.

    `ONE GUNSHOT'

    Shots snapped through the air. Students began running, including Javaris, who never heard any gunfire.

    ''There was a firearm produced. At least one gunshot,'' said Cmdr. Charles Hurley, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade Schools Police Department.

    As paramedics rushed Javaris, 17, to the hospital Thursday evening, detectives theorized the shooting could be unrelated to the fight between the girls: At least two bullet casings were found, but some 300 yards away, by a church.

    Police quickly issued a bulletin for a white sedan. Miami-Dade Schools Officer Clariveth Espada spotted a car fitting the description and followed.

    ''She did a spectacular job,'' Hurley said.

    Miami Gardens police soon stopped the 2004 white Chevrolet Malibu, registered to an owner in Pembroke Pines, at Northwest 27th Avenue and 183rd Street.

    On Thursday night, detectives were questioning the two men who'd been in the car. Their names were not released.

    Family members, friends and teachers rushed to Jackson Memorial Hospital's Ryder Trauma Center, where doctors told them the bullet had just missed Javaris' eardrum.

    His mother, Carol Williams, said he was talking and laughing.

    It was one of his music teachers, Hank Hankerson, who had called the family to tell them Javaris had been shot.

    `LOVES MUSIC'

    ''He loves music,'' said Hankerson, Javaris' teacher in jazz band and piano classes. ``He's important to the band and to the church.''

    Javaris plays drums for the marching band. He also plays keyboard and organ for Judah Prayze, a Christian band based at Miami's Zion Hope Missionary Baptist Church in Miami.

    His MySpace.com page says he likes sitcoms and cartoons -- as well as jazz and classical music. His only hero listed: his mother.

    Sister Tasheka Cross was at the hospital with her younger brother Thursday night. ''All I know is there was a fight and somebody started shooting,'' she said. ``He's a really good boy. He's never been in a fight.''

    A day earlier, police said a former student attempted a shooting at North Dade Academy, 13860 NW 26th Ave., a private K-10 school with 52 students that was founded two years ago by Dawnise Mobley.

    The 14-year-old girl had been expelled in November 2006 because of bad behavior.

    The teen left Mobley threatening messages, tried breaking into the school five times and attempted to set her car ablaze, the principal said. According to Opa-locka police, she had been arrested before, hospitalized for a mental health evaluation by police and warned to stay away from the school.

    A restraining order had also been issued against her.

    But on Wednesday, according to a police report, the teen called Mobley to say she was on the way to the school.

    JAMMED GUN

    According to police, Mobley saw her in the parking lot, pouring lighter fluid on the principal's silver Ford Focus. Running outside, Mobley was met with a gun. The teen squeezed the trigger three times.

    The gun jammed.

    Mobley ran back into the portable classroom. The girl went back to torching the Focus with a cigarette, pouring fluid inside the gas tank.

    Afraid the building would be lit, Mobley ran back outside. Officers arrived, and even as they arrested the teen, she reached out and yanked Mobley's hair. Officers found the gun tossed on the roof of the school.

    The experience left Mobley shaken, just days after the class had visited Mississippi and Alabama to study the civil rights movement.

    ''We, the kids, the parents, didn't sign up for this,'' Mobley said. ``We don't want people out thinking this is Columbine, this is a positive place.''

    Reached by phone, the girl's mother declined to talk to a reporter on Thursday night.

    The girl is charged with aggravated stalking with a firearm, violation of a stay-away order, aggravated assault and criminal mischief.

    Miami Herald staff writers Robert Samuels, Dominick Tao, Kathleen McGrory and Dezma Gainer contributed to this report.

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    Video | Brawl at Miami Edison Senior High

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