South LA: 600 Students Involved in School Melee

[Joe McGee]

South L.A. -- Four students were arrested today after a school fight involving about 600 teens broke out at a South Los Angeles high school, resulting in a campus lockdown.

http://ktla.trb.com/news/ktla-lockehigh,0,7548896.story

Looks like the destruction of California is complete.
Mexicans vs. Blacks, it would be funny if it wasn't happening in once beautiful California.

[Faust]

Joe McGee,

I went to a high school in Aztlan. I have seen Afro-Wetback school riots in person. They are nasty...

South L.A. -- Four students were arrested today after a school fight involving about 600 teens broke out at a South Los Angeles high school, resulting in a campus lockdown. Looks like the destruction of California is complete. Mexicans vs. Blacks, it would be funny if it wasn't happening in once beautiful California.

[Gregz]

More detailed report
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Locke High School in South Los Angeles locked down after huge brawl
Four people are arrested after a lunchtime melee involving as many as 600 students.

A fight between rival groups of black and Latino students at Locke High School quickly escalated into a campus-wide melee Friday, with as many as 600 students brawling until police restored calm with billy clubs.

The troubled campus in South Los Angeles was locked down after the fight broke out at 12:55 p.m., as students returned from lunch to their fifth-period classes. Overwhelmed school officials called Los Angeles police for help, but students and faculty said it took about half an hour before dozens of officers, many in riot gear, restored order.

"The kids were crazy, running from place to place, jumping on other kids," said Reggie Smith, the school's band director, who said he ran to pull his students from the melee. "Some of my kids were crying because they were walking to class with friends and they got jumped."

Los Angeles Unified School District police said that there are only two officers assigned to Locke but that the school police force brought in about 60 officers after receiving word of the brawl. The Los Angeles Police Department also dispatched more than a dozen patrol cars and about 50 officers.

Susan Cox, an LAUSD spokeswoman, said police arrested four people -- three students for fighting and one non-student for illegal possession of a knife. Four students were treated in the school nurse's office for minor injuries.

The campus at 111th and San Pedro streets has long been one of the city's most troubled. This school year has been particularly difficult, with near-daily fights -- albeit on a much smaller scale -- during much of the fall and winter. Locke is about to be reorganized as a cluster of charter schools run by Green Dot Public Schools, which will take over in July, and some faculty and staff have accused the district of letting the campus drift in its final year as a traditional public school.

"Morale has really dropped because they don't feel like they have everybody behind them," cheerleading coach Marlo Jenkins said recently. "There are just fights upon fights upon fights now."

Faculty members and Green Dot complained that L.A. Unified nearly halved its funding for non-police security aides at the start of the year. The school has been especially plagued by tagging crews -- the school employs two full-time workers just to paint over graffiti, said Green Dot's Kelly Hurley, who is managing the transition.

Faculty members also complained repeatedly about in-school ditching and a massive tardiness problem. Finally, the district restored some of the trimmed security, faculty said, and also dispatched an additional administrator to help restore order. Until then, the district had relied on Principal Travis Kiel, who'd been brought back from retirement. In recent weeks, students and teachers have reported improved conditions -- less ditching, a little less graffiti.

But then came Friday's melee, which students and teachers said was by far the worst of the year, perhaps the worst in years.

Joseph Sherlock, a senior, 17, who has been at Locke for four years, called it "my first actual encounter with a riot." He added: "I've seen fights, and I've seen fights between black and brown, but I've never seen anything like this."

Sherlock, who said he saw police use pepper spray during the melee, said tensions between African American and Latino students have not been a serious problem at the school. With an enrollment of 2,600, Locke is 65% Latino and 35% African American.

"It's not the way it's portrayed in the media; that's not what it's like at all," said Sherlock, who is black. Another black student, Ronald White, said African American and Latino students commonly divide along ethnic lines but aren't necessarily hostile. "Everybody usually just sticks to themselves," he said.

White, a 17-year-old senior, said he had just stepped from a main building into the school's grassy quad when he was met with a scene of chaos.

Hundreds of students were outside, and from what he could see, "Most people was fighting." Eventually, police began to swarm onto the campus, and White said the students began fighting the officers, who responded with their batons.

"I was in the corner, just watching," he said. "I saw a girl get hit by the police and she went down."

Senior Victor Wong, 18, said the brawl grew out of a fight two days earlier between a Latino student and an African American student. Wong said Latino students who are friends of his asked him to participate in a fight planned for Friday that was to pit 10 Latino students against 10 African American students.

"It was a crew-on-crew thing," he said, referring to graffiti gangs. "They asked for my help, but I'm graduating," he said. "I'm done with all that."

Wong said the two groups of instigators met as planned at the school's handball courts, and "all of them started going at it." Within seconds, he said, the fight escalated beyond the original two groups, and people began running throughout the campus fighting.

"They would finish one place and run to another corner and fight," he said.

"Security didn't know where to go," Wong added. "They'd concentrate in one spot and something would happen somewhere else. This is the worst I've seen."

Minor injuries at the scene were treated by the school nurse and L.A. Fire Department personnel. No one required hospitalization, the school district said. There were, however, some descriptions of students being badly beaten.

Wong said he saw one student beaten unconscious on a handball court. Sherlock said he saw one Latino student walking along Saint Street, the road that bisects the campus, when he was surrounded by a large group of black students who began hitting and kicking him. "He was bleeding real bad," Sherlock said. "When they stood him up, he kind of collapsed back down."

Sherlock, who is a member of the Black Student Union and the school's new House of Representatives, which was formed to help guide the transition from traditional school to charter, added that he had tried to stop the fighting, but to little effect. After securing order, authorities rounded up the students who hadn't returned to class and segregated them by race, holding Latinos in the boys gym and African American students in Hobbs Hall, the school's multipurpose room.

Beginning at 2 p.m., school officials began releasing students in small groups to go home. The school remained on lockdown until the last group had left about 3:15 p.m.

LAUSD's Cox said that there would be an enhanced police presence at Locke during school hours next week and that the district would send human relations staff to the school to talk to students.

In recent years, melees have broken out periodically at many campuses with a black and Latino presence, including in Los Angeles, Lynwood and Compton. There have been fights between Latinos and Armenians in other areas that led to campus lockdowns.

In nearly all cases, no serious injuries have resulted, but the incidents have frightened students and parents, marred the reputation of schools and hindered the learning of students who frequently already face substantial academic challenges.

"How do you build anything here when something happens and adds to the negativity?" asked band leader Smith.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...74,print.story

[Joe McGee]

Wake Up White Man, through Civil Rights and Immigration, the JEW has destroyed your once beautiful living space.

[Walter Yannis]

The Nigs don't stand a chance against the Mexis.

They're going to cleans Aztlan of them completely.

The thought occurs to me that maybe whites allow in Mexis because at some semi-conscious level we know that they'll do for us what we can't seem to do for ourselves - i.e. rid our nation of the Negro.

[edward gibbon]

The Nigs don't stand a chance against the Mexis.

They're going to cleans Aztlan of them completely.

The thought occurs to me that maybe whites allow in Mexis because at some semi-conscious level we know that they'll do for us what we can't seem to do for ourselves - i.e. rid our nation of the Negro.[/

I have long had that thought in the back of my mind. To admit this is also to admit the cowardice of whites.

[lnelson]

I have long had that thought in the back of my mind. To admit this is also to admit the cowardice of whites.

Yep. But have you noticed that whites are at their most vicious and
enthusiastic when doing battle vs. other whites? The Civil War, WWI,
WWII, etc.

[Joe McGee]

Yep. But have you noticed that whites are at their most vicious and
enthusiastic when doing battle vs. other whites? The Civil War, WWI,
WWII, etc.

Sad to say, you're absolutely correct. Do we have some genetic defect that makes us kill each other so readily, while seeming to care so much for inferior mud races?

The three wars you mentioned go a long way in explaing how we went from 33% of the world's population to now just 8%.

[TrueGrit]

The Nigs don't stand a chance against the Mexis.

They're going to cleans Aztlan of them completely.

The thought occurs to me that maybe whites allow in Mexis because at some semi-conscious level we know that they'll do for us what we can't seem to do for ourselves - i.e. rid our nation of the Negro.

A certain segment lets them in because they feel sorry for anyone who is poor especially people who live right next to us along with the whole "They work hard at jobs we won't do" line.

Another segment the one that includes some politicans and academic types are the ones who just don't like the america in general. Whether it be culture,traditions,etc They see the fastest way to destorying our country is through mass immigration,etc

The simple fact remains most people don't want them here.

[TrueGrit]

Yep. But have you noticed that whites are at their most vicious and
enthusiastic when doing battle vs. other whites? The Civil War, WWI,
WWII, etc.

I don't doubt they were fierce but when those wars were going the west owned most of the world no full scale wars were going to erupt with some distant third world mess. No one has mentioned Americas performance in our wars with mexico either. People also forget how fierce the conflicts that arose in the european empires spread all across the world which were as bad as it gets (Anglo-Burmese War,Mau Mau uprising where the british put down thousands,soweto,etc). Lets also not forget about the many years spent fighting the turks and moors. The handover of Granada didn't occur until decades and decades of fighting.