Thread: Riot in South LA High School

I just saw an anouncement of a riot in a south LA High School reported by KTLA. What's up in LA. CNN Headlines News was running the story

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Locke High School locked down after huge brawl


A school official talks to concerned parents gathered today at Locke High School in South Los Angeles, site of an afternoon melee among students.

4 students are arrested after a lunchtime melee involving as many as 600 students.
By Howard Blume And Jessica Garrison Times Staff Writers
May 10, 2008

As many as 600 students at Locke High School fought in a lunchtime brawl that has left the campus locked down and four students arrested, police and school officials said this afternoon.

The campus was locked down after the fight broke out shortly after 1 p.m. as students were returning from lunch to their fifth-period classes. Overwhelmed school officials called Los Angeles police for help about 15 minutes later. School officials separated Latino students from black students who had not yet made it to their next period.

"The kids were crazy, running from place to place jumping on other kids," said Reggie Smith, a music teacher who said he ran to pull his students from the melee. "Some of my kids were crying because they were walking to class with kids and they got jumped. The officers on campus were overwhelmed. You didn't know the kids who are good" from those trying to cause trouble, he said.

At the campus, well over a dozen LAPD cruisers were parked outside as officers investigated.

On a campus where daily fights are common, Locke football coach Wayne Crawford said today's incident stood out.

Several Los Angeles Unified School District campuses have had brawls between black and Latino students. In 2005, Jefferson High School was the setting for weeks of clashes.

The LAPD said officials aren't sure what prompted the disturbance.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me ... 0185.story

Hundreds brawl at LA high school

Associated Press - May 9, 2008 6:34 PM ET

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Authorities say a South Los Angeles high school was locked down and then dismissed early after hundreds of students scuffled during a lunchtime brawl that left many with minor injuries.

School district spokeswoman Nadia Gonzalez says about 600 students were involved in what appeared to be a gang-related fight that started around noon Friday at Locke High School.

Campus officers broke it up and four students were arrested.

Officials said several students were injured but nobody was hospitalized.

The cause of the brawl wasn't immediately known.

Gonzalez said the school was locked down after the battle. Students were kept in their classrooms and no parents or outsiders were allowed on campus. About 50 Los Angeles police officers, some of them in riot gear, responded to the school.

http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=8302493&nav=9qrx

Gang fight?

The LAPD said officials aren't sure what prompted the disturbance.

Hmmm....gee, might be the bad race relations between blacks and mexicans maybe? If you put enough animals in a cage-they're gonna fight. It is human nature and with the way things are during these times, that school and the whole city for that matter is like a pressure cooker.

School district spokeswoman Nadia Gonzalez says about 600 students were involved in what appeared to be a gang-related fight that started around noon Friday at Locke High School.

Gang related fights in our schools? Is that what it's come to these days? My God.

Hasn't chaned since i went to school there .. All I am going to say ! ! because I would be banned for life. I went to canoga Park High- Reseda High , and Cleveland Hi.

Originally Posted by Populist

Hundreds brawl at LA high school

Associated Press - May 9, 2008 6:34 PM ET

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Authorities say a South Los Angeles high school was locked down and then dismissed early after hundreds of students scuffled during a lunchtime brawl that left many with minor injuries.

School district spokeswoman Nadia Gonzalez says about 600 students were involved in what appeared to be a gang-related fight that started around noon Friday at Locke High School.

Campus officers broke it up and four students were arrested.

Officials said several students were injured but nobody was hospitalized.

The cause of the brawl wasn't immediately known.

Gonzalez said the school was locked down after the battle. Students were kept in their classrooms and no parents or outsiders were allowed on campus. About 50 Los Angeles police officers, some of them in riot gear, responded to the school.

http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=8302493&nav=9qrx

The AP Sanitized the story again! They always do this! This was not a gang fight this was a race riot!

W

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http://www.alipac.us/article3170.html