'Hundreds Riot at Reading High School'Some in a crowd of as many as 1,500 high school students throw rocks and bottles at police, block streets and bash cars with baseball bats, authorities say.
Reading, PA - An impromptu celebration of the Dominican Republic’s independence day involving as many as 1,500 students outside Reading High School erupted in violence Wednesday afternoon.
A city police captain was injured and at least a half-dozen students were arrested.
An unruly crowd of 1,000 to 1,500 high school students blocked streets around the school and threw rocks and bottles at police when officers tried to disperse them, authorities said.
Some students hit parked cars with baseball bats, and at least one student was reported hurt after someone hit him in the head with a bat, police said.
City police Capt. Edward J. Kosmerl Jr. was treated in Reading Hospital after a rock struck him in the head near 13th and Green streets about 4:30, police said.
Kosmerl was standing on the corner with another officer when a crowd of about 100 youths waving Dominican flags passed on the sidewalk, investigators said.
A few seconds later, a golf-ball size rock thrown by someone in the group hit Kosmerl on the side of the head, police said.
Kosmerl, 59, a 34-year veteran of the force, was taken to the hospital by another officer and received several stitches, according to police.
Acting schools Superintendent Anthony A. Georeno said Wednesday night that students of Dominican descent were involved in a variety of celebrations in the school during the day, including an approved assembly with a speaker.
Georeno said he did not know the name of the speaker nor the topic of his presentation.
Even with so many officers on hand, police had a difficult time controlling the crowd.
Police were trying only to contain the students and prevent serious violence, Evans said.
Police said school administrators and staff watched as chaos erupted outside the school and did nothing to help police struggling to control the crowd.
Many students waved red, white and blue Dominican flags and wore red shirts as they paraded.
Students shook their fists and yelled as cars passed.
Police said some of them were running onto porches shouting. Neighbors did not know what was going on, and police said they were caught off guard.
Races in Reading:
(Total can be greater than 100% because Hispanics could be counted in other races)
- White Non-Hispanic (48.1%)
- Hispanic (37.3%)
- Other race (22.3%)
- Black (12.2%)
- Two or more races (4.2%)
- American Indian (1.0%)
- Vietnamese (0.9%)
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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.
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. A few the officers suffered minor injuries, according to Bichachi...
Edison recently celebrated its move from a designation of an "F" or failing school to "D." Last year only 10 percent of students met reading standards, according to the Associated Press. Less than a third met state math standards.
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Races in Miami:
(Total can be greater than 100% because Hispanics could be counted in other races)
- Hispanic (65.8%)
- Black (22.3%)
- White Non-Hispanic (11.8%)
- Other race (5.4%)
- Two or more races (4.7%)
- American Indian (0.5%)
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LOS ANGELES (KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO) -- Three high schools and a middle school are were placed on lockdown in Southern California. Pete Knight High School in Palmdale, Valencia High School in Placentia, Kraemer Middle School in Placentia, and Blair Baccalaureate International School (formerly Blair High School) in Pasadena. There were no injuries relating to these incidents.
Pete Knight High School in Palmdale was locked down by school officials around 2 p.m. following racial tensions between groups on campus.
Shots fired nearby but off campus was the cause for lockdowns at Kraemer Middle School and adjecant Valencia High School in Placentia.
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Races in Palmdale:
(Total can be greater than 100% because Hispanics could be counted in other races)
- White Non-Hispanic (41.0%)
- Hispanic (37.7%)
- Other race (20.4%)
- Black (14.5%)
- Two or more races (5.2%)
- Filipino (2.1%)
- American Indian (1.9%)
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(Total can be greater than 100% because Hispanics could be counted in other races)
- White Non-Hispanic (53.7%)
- Hispanic (31.1%)
- Other race (14.7%)
- Two or more races (3.6%)
- Chinese (2.8%)
- Vietnamese (2.2%)
- Black (1.8%)
- Filipino (1.6%)
- American Indian (1.5%)
- Asian Indian (1.3%)
- Korean (1.2%)
- Japanese (1.1%)
- Other Asian (1.0%)
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Races in Pasadena:(Total can be greater than 100% because Hispanics could be counted in other races)
- White Non-Hispanic (39.1%)
- Hispanic (33.4%)
- Other race (16.0%)
- Black (14.4%)
- Two or more races (5.4%)
- Chinese (3.3%)
- Filipino (2.1%)
- Japanese (1.6%)
- American Indian (1.5%)
- Korean (1.0%)
- Other Asian (0.8%)
- Asian Indian (0.7%)
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FLINT, Mich. -- A fight broke out at Northwestern Academy in Flint Wednesday morning. After the fists stopped flying, seven people were arrested.Students TV5 spoke to said they are used to seeing a fight or two a day, but Wednesday students said it was out of control."It was so much stuff happening," said Deviona Mitchell, a freshman at Northwestern. "This dude got jumped, his eye was split. I was so scared I really didn't know what to do."Several fights broke out before 1 p.m. and police tried to get the situation under control but students watching the melee would not get out of the way.
Another student, Amy Bridge, said, "One of the fights was so intense police were forced to use pepper spray to break up the crowd."When officers were finally able to subdue the crowd, seven people were arrested including an adult woman, three teenage girls and three teenage boys.Students who were not involved in the mayhem said it is impossible to concentrate with these types of things happening every day."You can't even learn because all the students is just wild," said Damika Bell, a freshman.
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Races in Flint:
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- Black (53.3%)
- White Non-Hispanic (40.0%)
- Two or more races (3.1%)
- Hispanic (3.0%)
- American Indian (2.2%)
- Other race (1.1%)
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Transplant them here, and they will simply reproduce their Third World Environment in their new place of residence..... a Neighborhood near you!
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