Victorville said violent fights have been breaking out between African-Americans and Latinos for the past two days.
Rafael Muñoz said a group of people started the fights at Silverado High on Wednesday, which have poured out into the streets.
“One person started fighting, then the other would jump in. And continuously jump in and (it) ended up to be mob fighting. (I) got pepper sprayed by the security,” he said.
Cellphone video caught one brawl, which spilled into 14-year-old Jeremy Buenrostro’s lawn.
“The cops are nowhere to be seen. We’ve been calling them. They took forever. 911 placed people on hold. It was ridiculous,” said [Monica] Rodriguez.
The San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department deployed cruisers and a helicopter on Thursday to assist with the disturbance on campus.
Riots Break Out Between Black, Latino Students At Victorville School « CBS Los Angeles
post racial america, anyone?
Riots Break Out Between Black, Latino Students At Victorville School « CBS Los Angeles
post racial america, anyone?
I remember race-based feuds from my high school days. There were three "gangs" that were constantly going at one another. One gang was predominantly black, another Hispanic, and another Laos.
Once, a guy from the mostly Laos gang did lord only knows what to piss off a member of the mostly Hispanic gang. Shortly there after, a retaliatory member of the Hispanic gang was expelled for repeated violation of anti-violence rules. A few days afterwards, he slipped into the school during first lunch and took a metal pipe to the head of one of the Laos gang members. Kid ended up in the hospital for most of the rest of the year (event took place in the spring time).
From my observation, I don't think it was about hating the other races. I think it was about hating the other group fighting for dominance. I never heard them using racially offensive terms in reference to one another. It was always some slur involving the gang name, or an offensive bastardization of the other gang's "hand sign". I think the racial grouping was more about common ground than Xenophobia or racial bias. Ultimately, they behaved like a gang: all about power, disruption, control, and "hustling" for money. When you've got three groups vying to be the biggest assholes on campus, it's bound to come to blows.
Not saying that's what happened in the OP story, of course. Just an anecdote.
Wow, I thought the police in Detroit were bad when I lived there. They would always respond slowly to this kind of violence. They would just wait until everything was over, then come in and play cleanup.
I remember race-based feuds from my high school days. There were three "gangs" that were constantly going at one another. One gang was predominantly black, another Hispanic, and another Laos.
Once, a guy from the mostly Laos gang did lord only knows what to piss off a member of the mostly Hispanic gang. Shortly there after, a retaliatory member of the Hispanic gang was expelled for repeated violation of anti-violence rules. A few days afterwards, he slipped into the school during first lunch and took a metal pipe to the head of one of the Laos gang members. Kid ended up in the hospital for most of the rest of the year (event took place in the spring time).
From my observation, I don't think it was about hating the other races. I think it was about hating the other group fighting for dominance. I never heard them using racially offensive terms in reference to one another. It was always some slur involving the gang name, or an offensive bastardization of the other gang's "hand sign". I think the racial grouping was more about common ground than Xenophobia or racial bias. Ultimately, they behaved like a gang: all about power, disruption, control, and "hustling" for money. When you've got three groups vying to be the biggest assholes on campus, it's bound to come to blows.
Not saying that's what happened in the OP story, of course. Just an anecdote.
... and you think its because the victims were minorities? A lot of the detroit population is black.. including the police.
CBS 2’s Walter Jacobson sat down with gang members in Chicago’s troubled Englewood neighborhood to try to find some answers. “There’s no solution to the violence,” one gang member tells him. “Killing, killing is the solution.”
Jacobson asked the young man if he would kill personally, if he had to. “I’ve never killed before, but if I had a gun in my possession,” he said.
“We’ve got to eat. We want to. We want money. We want to get fresh, we want fresh eggs almost every day. We want all that,” another young man said.
But where do they get the money they need? The young man answered bluntly. “Rob, steal and kill. That’s the only way. We didn’t grow up in Beverly Hills. We don’t get it handed to us,” he said. “We ain’t living in Hyde Park,” added a third young man.
But given the state of their impoverished Englewood neighborhood, where is the money they can get? “Selling drugs,” a young man replied. “In our neighborhood, I ain’t going to lie to you. That’s where the money comes from.”
Some of the young men were brought into gangs as children. Isn’t that pretty young to play gang warfare? A young man answered: “I chose the gang. I didn’t have to choose anything. I was only 10. My OG (old gangster) gave me everything. But I just went on my own and I chose to get in the gang. We was whipping everybody in the neighborhood. Respect. I was getting money.”
The gang members also said they are at war with the Chicago Police Department. “The police hate us,” a young man said. “Every time they ride past us, they shoot us down and do all that. Do what you want to do, I don’t care about you all, keep riding. Who are you all? We’re not scare of you all. I’ll fight you too. Take that badge off.”
“I laugh at the police,” he said. “They’re a joke to me.”
And where would the young men like to be in 10 years? One of them replied, “in a mansion, with a lot of cars, and a lot of women.” Another said, “I just hope I’m still living.”
Riots Break Out Between Black, Latino Students At Victorville School « CBS Los Angeles
post racial america, anyone?
Several dozen students were treated for respiratory and eye irritation after a police officer used pepper spray to get through a crowd to a fight at a Harbor City high school, according fire and school district officials.
A fire department spokesman and a Los Angeles Unified School District spokeswoman both stated the treatment took place after a school police officer used pepper spray at about 10 a.m. Thursday at Narbonne High School.
In a statement issued at 3 p.m., LAUSD said a fight between two female students broke out during morning nutrition break:
"The fight attracted a large crowd that surrounded the incident, preventing the Los Angeles School Police Officer from coming to the aid of the fallen student. The crowd did not heed commands to disperse by school staff or the officer. Concerned for the safety of the fallen student and for the officer’s own safety, the officer dispensed a short burst of pepper spray into the air to disperse the crowd."
The district said the two students involved had been cited, and that Los Angeles School Police are investigating this as a "use-of-force incident, in accordance with official department policy."
Witnesses said the officer did not give the crowd notice that she was going to use pepper spray.
"The lady just said, 'Disperse.' She didn't give nobody no time to leave, she just started spraying. She was going crazy with the spray," student Jazz Webster said. "People that was walking past that wasn't even involved got sprayed."
Mother Carlisha Jamerson said the fight started when her daughter Ranniyah Ciearria Gill was attacked by girls who had been "bullying" the girl for weeks.
"One girl started swinging and two others came in," Gill said.
Andrea Merkel.
You don't see this happening at white schools.Riots Break Out Between Black, Latino Students At Victorville School « CBS Los Angeles
post racial america, anyone?
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