Posted on 10/10/2010 11:28:14 AM PDT by Palladin
Oh, I don’t agree with the “Kids will be kids...it’s been going on forever...etc.” I didn’t participate in anything like that, and I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t even have occurred to my kids that it could be an acceptable way to act.
Just adding some context. That was all.
Thank you for your input.
I hate to sound stupid—but where is Williamsport?
Home of Little League Baseball.
A little bit north of PA Dutch Country, near where I’m at.
But believe me, the Amish youth get “wild and crazy” too.
I’m curious if there was a racial component to this riot, and what the race or races of the rioters was.
The police would have provided a good public service if, on their way to the school, they notified the press, particularly the photographers, so that the local papers could actually show the town what the wonderful students had been doing that night.
Williamsport is the larger principal city of the Williamsport-Lock Haven CSA]], a Combined Statistical Area that includes the Williamsport metropolitan area (Lycoming County) and the Lock Haven micropolitan area (Clinton County),[9][10][11] which had a combined population of 157,958 at the 2000 census.[1]
As of the census[1] of 2000, there were 30,706 people, 12,219 households, and 6,732 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,456.3 people per square mile (1,335.1/km²). There were 13,524 housing units at an average density of 1,522.3/sq mi (588.0/km²).
The racial makeup of the city was 84.11% White, 12.73% Black, 0.36% Native American, 0.57% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.48% from other races, and 1.73% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.11% of the population.
Homecoming dances sure have changed since I was a youngster!
^^^
Young people have changed since you were one. It is truly amazing to see how many are raised with no manners, no respect. Of course, so many of them have been left in the care of strangers starting at age 6 weeks. The parents are with them for comparatively few waking hours.
This one is in Pennsylvania.
There are a couple of others...one in Ohio, I think.
No doubt some video of the action will surface on You-Tube soon.
Sure there are, it’s just that 99.99% of them are homeschooled.
:)
Dance organizer speaks out on reported melee
October 11, 2010 - By PHILIP A. HOLMES pholmes@sungazette.com
The president of the Williamsport Area High School Student Government Association that organized Friday night’s homecoming dance said she was “ashamed” at how events got “out of hand,” but she believed the situation “could have been handled better.”
In a phone call to the Sun-Gazette Sunday night, senior Julianne Kiess said she was upset with news coverage of a reported melee and how the version presented by city police put the high school “in a negative light.”
As hundreds of students were leaving the school at 2990 W. Fourth St. about 10:30 p.m., numerous fights broke out.
As hundreds of students were leaving the school at 2990 W. Fourth St. about 10:30 p.m., numerous fights broke out, escalating to near-riot proportions, forcing officers to use pepper spray “grenades” to get the unruly crowd to disperse, according to city police.
“Nobody really knows how it started,” said Kiess, who was inside working a snack bar when the disturbance erupted.
“I think it stated with a few students acting out, and then it escalated. If those students could have been maintained or managed earlier on, it would not have been allowed to escalate like it did,” Kiess said.
The student association spent a week promoting the dance, which was attended by 300 to 500 students, Kiess said.
“I don’t think there were as many students involved (in the fighting) as was made out to believe,” she said.
Lt. Tim Miller, the patrol division supervisor in charge at the scene, said officers rushed to the school after school staff members called screaming for help. The officer admitted police were “overwhelmed” by mobs of students who were punching and kicking one, and who refused to disperse. It took about an hour for a dozen or more officers to get the crowd under control.
Kiess said Miller’s account “sounded like he was victimized, and that was very inappropriate.”
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