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Students revolt against tyrany in their school.

Out of concern over the recent out pouring of news about Teachers thinking they are some how poilce officers is really becoming,(In my opinion) a major problem.
There are school systems instituting a Three tardy system that will try to impose civil action by the CPS. Since when does the Government have the right to incarserate children for three tardies? Any way the artical that really impressed me was one from Miami.
Yesterday, students and police were injured in an altercation at Miami Edison High School
as reported by NBC6 South Florida. The fight broke out after a warrent was served on Wadson Sagaille on Thursday prompting a protest ralley on Friday.. Which in my opinion is in poor taste. Schools once were a safe haven but the value of our youngs education is more about conforming then actual critical independant thought. So now they have allowed police and others to be agressive against our kids.
"There was an arrest made yesterday, totally unrelated. Apparently the students were not happy about that," said Cmdr. Charles Hurley with the Miami School Board Police Department.
Students said they protested because Sagaille had been put in a chokehold by the school's assistant principal, Javier Perez. Students said they want Perez fired.
"My fellow students scheduled a protest that we have rights, too, in school," Sagaille said.
NBC 6's Gray Hall spoke with a student outside the school who claimed that the assistant principal and a security guard slammed Sagaille to the ground on Thursday. The student said that incident sparked a staged protest on Friday.
"As far as any protest or demonstration, we were not made aware of any planned demonstration," Hurley said. However, students showed NBC 6 fliers that had previously been handed out at the school calling for a "Peaceful Assembly" protest on Friday.
Parents were being asked to be patient as they pick up their children.
"We have begun parent reunification," Hurley said. ( reunification, are you serious.)
"That's on the east side of the building on the basketball courts. It's going to be a very controlled release process whereby parents can come and pick up their students and get them home."(after a thourough background check I'm sure.)
School was dismissed an hour early as parents rushed to the campus to see if their child was involved in the brawl. Cars sat in gridlock east of Interstate 95 on Northwest 62nd Street on Friday afternoon.
"I don't know what happened inside, if my son is OK," said parent Adilie Jean.
Students coming out of the school told NBC 6's Tisha Lewis about what they saw. "Somebody in my class passed out," said student Jude Pierre. "Everybody was crying because of what happened. I saw the cops. Most of the time you say cops are not supposed to use violence against kids. All of that was just violence."
"They grabbed every student and slammed them to the ground," said student Marcus Brown.
"Somebody who had it in their cell phone showed us.""It's just amazing," said student Marylynn Wilson. "People getting bruised and beaten. They had us in the cafeteria, it was hot."
School board and Miami police officers were still investigating the cause of the fight.
"What occurred was this afternoon some of the students became unruly," Hurley said. "There was an arrest made yesterday at the school. The students were evidently upset about the arrest, at which point they began throwing filled milk containers, bottles and other objects at our officers. ( Milk?, come on, they were trowing food.)
The officers, of course, called for emergency backup. At that point, several officers from several different responding agencies came to assist. Once we were here, the crowd continued to become unruly. (Of coarse, they were. Your presence in the schools is what they are protesting about.) There were several officers that were injured as well as some students. Several students have been placed under arrest. "It wasn't immediately clear how many students were injured.
"We don't have any serious injuries," said Ignatius Carroll of Miami Fire Rescue. "There's no stabbing, no shooting. We had a fight between some students and the police department. Several officers received minor injuries. A few students did get a couple of bumps and bruises and they're being attended to by Miami Fire Rescue."
Officers from the Miami Police Department, Miami-Dade Police Department and Miami School Board Police Department responded to the scene.
Hall reported that he counted at least 25 police cruisers outside the school.Chopper 6 overhead showed police officers in riot gear. Miami police said the incident looked more serious that it appeared.
"The city of Miami was the second team of police officers that came on the scene," said Delrish Moss with Miami police.
"This wasn't a situation where shots were fired and chaos reigned. It just looks confusing when you're standing on the outside looking in." (It tends to be confussing when anyone sees the police in riot gear storming a school. Just blow it off...Nothing to see here, Just move along...Nice explaintion the Chief Quimbey.)
Once the scene cleared, there were two very different stories as to what happened at the high school.
Some students said that police were hitting them with batons, throwing them to the ground and pushing them against walls. Police said they were the ones who were attacked.( Right the kids are going to attack the police who have guns and riot gear , which include bullet proof shield , which I'm sure the used to "Subdue " a few kids.
"The police were trying to contain the students," said injured student Jenson Dolce. "They pushed me into the glass when they were pushing the students back into the cafeteria."
Videos seen on several students' cell phones showed the chaos in the school as the riot situation went down inside the cafeteria.
Student Julie David caught the fight on her cell phone."I was scared for my life," she said. "Pregnant girls in there were getting beat in their stomachs.
"According to eyewitnesses, 40 to 50 students took on police and school administrators. Some of the fights spilled out into the streets and were caught on NBC 6 cameras.
"They hit us," one female student said. "They were bruising us, hitting us like animals."
But police disagreed, saying they followed procedure."I was there the entire time," said Miami-Dade Schools Police Chief Gerald Darling. "From what I saw, their actions were appropriate."
Detective Ed Torrens of the Miami-Dade Schools Police Department said 27 students -- both boys and girls -- faced charges such as disorderly conduct, battery on police officers and resisting arrest with violence. All would likely be handled as juvenile cases, (And that's just what Miami needs more kids to literally lose. GOOGLE CPS childeren lost. you'll find that they have lost over 3000 children.) he said. At least 17 students, all minors, were taken to a juvenile jail. The others were taken to an adult jail and processed there.
Several were released late Friday night. Those who weren't released will have their first appearances in court on Saturday.Broward County schools reported a 25 percent increase in reportable incidents in 2007.