You said: So, if me and four buddies, as taxpayers, decided to go down to the local high school and start playing basketball in the gym, then school authorities would have to tell the basketball team to wait until we were done?
If school authorities, and not the police, had asked the teens to leave school grounds (which is not likely, since school was closed), it would be a different story. Do the police have the authority to decide who may and who may not be on public property? Did anyone from the school, charged with running the school, tell them, or tell the police to tell them, to leave? No school meeting or function was being disrupted, as far as I can tell.
I support the job police have to do, but I am not sure that this was anything the police should have been involved in.
Check out the actual news site. Apparently, the assistant principal did call the cops.
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=97716
Actually, the entire article isn't posted here. I went to the link and searched on what kankor posted, and it was there.
The school superintendent asked them to leave, and when they refused, he called the cops.
I still believe this is a rediculous escalation for playing in the snow.
the school was not closed...people were going in and out of there...students and kids...it was just a snow day