Do you think the police are so dumb that this didn't occur to them and given as an option to a mob of TEENAGERS before lobbing teargas at them?
Who do you suppose called the police if not the school administrators, who know all to well what mischief 200 kids can get up to? Did the cops divine that something was up at the high school?
Whether they did or didn't doesn't matter. Cops have no business blocking school exits in a non-emergency situation.
Who do you suppose called the police if not the school administrators, who know all to well what mischief 200 kids can get up to? Did the cops divine that something was up at the high school?
I'm well aware that the school informed the police that at 11am tons of kids were planning to leave to go to the protest. I'd assume that the gate-blocking decision was made by both the police and the school admins.
There was no reason for the police to be anywhere near the school. Schools often close mid-day for teacher's conferences, unleashing many hundreds of teens to roam the street - and nobody even notices. What makes this any different, other than the kids were breaking school rules by leaving, and most of them had a common destination? They need tear gas to keep this "mob" inside the school when they all get out anyways in 3 or 4 hours?
There was no "mob" until a bunch of kids were threatened with an immediate tear gassing for skipping school. And any kid there who may have respected the local cops will now fear them and consider them his enemy. I really can't believe how the cops could have been involved in anything this stupid.