A chaotic scene played on Thursday, March 13th, in front of the Jehue Middle School, when the civil rights leader asked the police department of Colton to arrest a boy who fought with a girl in an incident, which was partly included in video, which was widespread on social media.
The press conference started only a few minutes after hundreds of students were spilled out of the classrooms after the last bell of the day, and were shocked when they had set up a phalanx of news cameras on a street corner.
The video shows a male student who complies with a much smaller black student who presses his hand against her head and face and holds her down. He releases them and pushes them into a table. The girl then grabs a laptop off the table, turns around and throws him to the boy, who then grabs the girl and hits her first in a table, and she falls on the floor, at the moment she stays still before helping another student. The students will scream racist epitheta during the pandemonium.
“She is lined up, brother,” hears a student when the boy who slapped the girl in the table, picks up his glasses from the ground, smiles and goes away.
The video was published on Wednesday and Thursday on various social media accounts.
“Nobody should happen what happened to her,” said Najee Ali, a social and political activist who appeared at the press conference. “Drive him away.”
When the municipal leaders spoke on Thursday, the police of Colton published a press release in which it was announced that both 14-year-old fighters had been quoted. The publication described the boy as the victim and said he had been hit in the head with a metal object several times before the video was shot.
“We immediately call that these quotes, especially the young woman, are lifted,” said Samuel Casey, Senior Pastor of the New Life Christian Church and the first vice president of the domestic Empire who dealt with African American churches.
When he and others spoke the girl as victims, dozens of students formed a circle around the meeting with their telephones.
Some people said concerns that the replacement teacher had not intervened in the classroom. Angel Rivera, a student in the science class, said the teacher called security instead.
The spokeswoman for Rialto Unified, Syeda Jafri, said that “quick and decisive measures” were taken against the teacher, but did not say what it was or why. Jafri said she would research the policy of the district about the interventions in fighting.
Rivera said the video did not show what happened before the recording: The girl repeatedly hit the boy on the head with a metal piston and let him bleed.
Jafri said that the examination of the district would continue.
“Hass has no place in our world, hate has no place in our country, hate has no place in the state of California and hate has no place in the Unified School District in Rialto,” said Jafri.
The officers responded to school on Monday morning and received statements by the teacher present at the time of the fight and several other witnesses, the police said.
While the Jehue Middle School is located in Colton City Limits, it is part of the Rialto Unified School District, which published a security bullet on his social media website after the video was released on social media.
“This worrying and unfortunate incident is examined by the district and the local authorities,” said the bulletin, finding that the district “the parents of the students involved was immediately and also provided and also provided medical help.”
The bulletin states that “correction measures” were taken but do not offer any details.
The Jehue Middle School serves the students of classes 6-8 and has an enrollment of 1,460 students. The racist/ethnic make -up is 91% Latino, 4.6% black and 1.9% white.
The police work in cooperation with the school district and the case will be forwarded to the district prosecutor of San Bernardino, youth department, the police said in the press release.
Anyone who has a witness or information about the incident is asked to contact the Colton police under 909-370-5000. Those who want to remain anonymous
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