Cuffed Students Led From Miami School (Police Respond in Riot Gear)

[Tab]

Source: ABC



Police in riot gear responded this morning to a local Miami high school after reports of a fight and possible gunshots inside the school.

Edison Senior High School students at the scene told ABC News' TV affiliate WPLG that a "disturbance" had broken out after a student protest organized in response to an unspecified incident that had occurred at the school on Thursday.

A few students were demonstrating at lunch around 11 a.m., Olga Bichachi told ABC News, when school resources officers responded to the disturbance and Miami-Dade police were called.

Rescue units arrived, and students could be seen in aerial footage in handcuffs being led from the school to a police paddy wagon. Several students were seen limping.


Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=4365780&page=1

[mac2]

1. Who ordered the arrest of protesting students?

What were they protesting?

When I hear the school did not meet testing standards I have to ask what is the ethnic mix? Lots of immigrants, students in stess and poverty, etc.?

[NOLALady]

3. I watched some of the live broadcast.

The school seemed predominately Black. They may (or may not) have been quite a few immigrants. Some of the kids spoke with an accent and some of the parents did not speak English. I couldn't tell if it was a Creole or Spanish accent.

There was an incident the day before at the school. The principal asked a student to show him some papers which the student did not want to do. (I think the kids was an editor on the school paper) According to one of the kids, the principal began to manhandle the student then had him arrested. The kids decided to protest the incident the next day (today).

The school called the riot police and that's when the trouble began. I watched the live broadcast for about an hour. Neither the police nor the kids mentioned anything about shots fired. The school may have added that to justify calling in the riot squad.

Kids reported they were beaten, tased and threatened with the K9s. Two girls who were beaten were pregnant. One girl passed out from the pepper spray. The police insisted they had no tasers or pepper spray. Many kids have cell phone photos and videos.

[mac2]

8. Sounds like the school is looking for trouble on purpose.

Do you think the media creates news because it's too expensive to do real news with real journalists...plus it's constant fear, etc.?

Sounds like the police are getting ready to do another "incident" like during Vietnam. They want to rile up the Afro-American community on purpose.

How dare they protest. I agree the lie of the shot in the school was to get everyone fearful and aggressive.

Get ready for them to take away our guns. Almost everyday now they have a "shooting" at schools in the country. We never had that before Bush.

[NOLALady]

10. Sometimes it seems like they are purposefully

trying to rile up the community. Then I wonder if they are just control freaks who have no idea what they are doing. This is not the time to stir up trouble in the AA community or any other for that matter. There are so many people out of work. They feel depressed, hopeless with nothing to lose. Just about every darn body has access to guns. And, school will be out in a couple of months.

Police brutality is escalating. Violence breeds violence. If there isn't a change, it's only a matter of time before a community will push back. A perfect storm for disaster.

[Hugabear]

2. Your police state in action

Gotta keep them dark-skinned folks in line! If it means cuffing them, tossing them into the back of a paddy wagon, and then tossing them in prison, so be it. :sarcasm:

[Fredda Weinberg]

5. Your attitude is not helpful and I doubt you know the demographics

There's tension between African Americans and Haitians. This was, apparently, a demonstration that got out of hand. I'm not surprised ... for a while, I lived in Overtown and worked w/all the local schools and MD police.

To put the episode in context, from the Miami Herald article cited below:

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

The day before that, a student who was expelled from North Dade Academy in Opa-locka last year drew a gun on the principal and pulled the trigger. The gun misfired. The girl, 14, was taken into custody. North Dade Academy is a private school.

[my2sense]

4. Here's an article

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_dade/story/438888.html

[truthisfreedom]

6. That's one f-ed up story. I'd hate to be a parent or a kid involved in it.

What a mess.

[Tab]

7. I agree. It'll be interesting that now many kids have video cell phones

The "official" version of many events may be brought into the sunlight.

[rfr1959]

9. Miami Edison

No riots when I went there. Graduated in 1955.