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Locke High School in South Los Angeles locked down after huge brawl
Los Angeles Times ^ | May 10, 2008 | Howard Blume and Mitchell Landsberg

Posted on 05/10/2008 4:46:19 AM PDT by Haddit

A fight between rival groups of black and Latino students at Locke High School quickly escalated into a campus-wide melee Friday, with as many as 600 students brawling until police restored calm with billy clubs.

The troubled campus in South Los Angeles was locked down after the fight broke out at 12:55 p.m., as students returned from lunch to their fifth-period classes. Overwhelmed school officials called Los Angeles police for help, but students and faculty said it took about half an hour before dozens of officers, many in riot gear, restored order.

"The kids were crazy, running from place to place, jumping on other kids," said Reggie Smith, the school's band director, who said he ran to pull his students from the melee. "Some of my kids were crying because they were walking to class with friends and they got jumped."

Los Angeles Unified School District police said that there are only two officers assigned to Locke but that the school police force brought in about 60 officers after receiving word of the brawl. The Los Angeles Police Department also dispatched more than a dozen patrol cars and about 50 officers.snip

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: black; diversity; immigration; lapd; latino; losangeles; melee; publikskoolz; riot; schoolviolence
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In recent years, melees have broken out periodically at many campuses with a black and Latino presence, including in Los Angeles, Lynwood and Compton. There have been fights between Latinos and Armenians in other areas that led to campus lockdowns.
1 posted on 05/10/2008 4:46:19 AM PDT by Haddit
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To: Haddit

Just getting along...


2 posted on 05/10/2008 4:49:28 AM PDT by Libloather (May is Liberal Awareness Month.)
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To: Haddit
With an enrollment of 2,600, Locke is 65% Latino and 35% African American.

Gee, I wonder what the problem is. Heck, give `em amnesty. That'll fix it.

3 posted on 05/10/2008 4:56:54 AM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Haddit

People with sense. People with intelligence. People who value civilization. People who value liberty. GET YOUR KIDS OUT OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS!!!


4 posted on 05/10/2008 5:03:11 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: arthurus

It’s not always possible.


5 posted on 05/10/2008 5:05:13 AM PDT by allmost
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To: TLI
With an enrollment of 2,600, Locke is 65% Latino and 35% African American.

Musta' killed off all the whites and Asians...

6 posted on 05/10/2008 5:05:32 AM PDT by johnny7
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To: johnny7
Musta' killed off all the whites and Asians...

Oh, that was several years ago. We must move on...

7 posted on 05/10/2008 5:07:44 AM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: johnny7
Dey got ganked tens years ago where you been?
8 posted on 05/10/2008 5:07:55 AM PDT by allmost
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To: Haddit

LOCKE DOWN!


9 posted on 05/10/2008 5:15:08 AM PDT by SIDEWALKING
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To: Haddit; kellynla; gubamyster; HiJinx
I'm glad to be out of SoCal. I don't want to be around when that ethnic volcano explodes.
10 posted on 05/10/2008 5:15:16 AM PDT by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: Haddit
You pulled the quote FTA I was going to pull. This isn't at all surprising. All anyone needs to do is watch the History Channel's "Gangland" series about modern gangs, especially the ethnic ones, Cosa Nostra generally not included. In California a mostly unrecognized race war has developed between the blacks and Hispanics, with Hispanics violently evicting blacks from formerly black neighborhoods. It was reflected politically in the DemonRat primaries when Hillary won in California with a huge majority of the Hispanic vote and almost none of the black vote. The same dynamic may hold true in the general election, where it will help McCain against Obama. The blacks and the browns are definitely not united.
11 posted on 05/10/2008 5:19:38 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: allmost

It is always possible.It is a matter of priorities. We homeschooled 3 at a time when both of us worked and neither of us made much at all. It was a pain in the butt and no one got fat. We actually skimped on food occasionally. But we did the job and the results are most satisfying. It helps if you have no TV in the house.


12 posted on 05/10/2008 5:22:12 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: Haddit

We need to apply some innovative liberal solutions to this problem. But it might take some money.

1. Midnight basketball
2. Make condoms available on request
3. reduce classroom size
4. retrain teachers
5. team sensitivity teaching
6. more diversity training
7. expand school lunch subsidies


13 posted on 05/10/2008 5:22:51 AM PDT by Bertha Fanation
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To: libstripper

Hispanics have no white guilt. They don’t like blacks and are quite willing to say so and then act on it.

Historically, thru the 50s race riots consisted primarily of whites attacking blacks. From the 60s through the 90s they consisted of blacks attacking whites and Asians.

We may be headed back towards an era of blacks as the recipients, only with Hispanics as the aggressors.

The hilarious aspect of this is that liberals are convinced that all “people of color” are inherently allied against evil “people of pallor.” In reality, Hispanics and most other minorities dislike blacks much more than they hate whites.

Another fun factor is watching liberals trying to ignore Hispanic vs. black conflict, as it conflicts so greatly with their theories. CA authorities and the LAPD are desperately trying to pretend that a general attack on blacks by latino gangs is not in progress in that city.


14 posted on 05/10/2008 5:25:52 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - A. Lincoln)
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To: Sherman Logan

Exactly. How can there be a racial conflict, absent evil white men?

Must be a legacy of slavery and colonialism......or something.


15 posted on 05/10/2008 5:45:06 AM PDT by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: TLI
With an enrollment of 2,600, Locke is 65% Latino and 35% African American.

Obviously, it's whitey fault

16 posted on 05/10/2008 5:50:10 AM PDT by Popman ("When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.")
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To: Bertha Fanation

Oh gosh...you forgot the most important ones ...

VALUES DISCUSSIONS AND EXERCISES.

and.....

SELF CONFIDENCE BUILDING DISCUSSIONS

ha.


17 posted on 05/10/2008 5:55:14 AM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (WE NEED A TROOP SURGE IN CHICAGO !)
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To: Sherman Logan
In reality, Hispanics and most other minorities dislike blacks much more than they hate whites.

Well, after all they are La Raza, The Race. Just ask them.

18 posted on 05/10/2008 6:07:06 AM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Haddit

Brawling really is a distraction from studying for the AP exams....


19 posted on 05/10/2008 6:21:22 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: TLI

“With an enrollment of 2,600, Locke is 65% Latino and 35% African American.”


Why aren’t they busing whites in to that school for racial balance? /s


20 posted on 05/10/2008 6:23:20 AM PDT by John Leland 1789
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