High school brawl, Louisiana VS Houston

[ChunkyAcidReflux]

http://www.khou.com/news/local/crime....5342d5ac.html

Security will be increased Wednesday at a southeast Houston high school where a fight broke Tuesday between Louisiana and Houston students.



"Man, they were just going at it," said Larry Citizen, a student. "Man, that's all it was -- Louisiana versus Jessie Jones."



When it was over, three Jones High School students were in the hospital and five were in police custody.



The scene got even uglier when parents arrived.



A loud verbal confrontation broke out between mothers of some of the students involved in the first fight.



"They jumped on my nephew inside this school, busted him in the head. They're sending him to the hospital," yelled one woman.
Police separated the group of women and threatened to arrest them if they didn't calm down.



"They jumped on my son, but yet you want to arrest me," complained one mother.



"Let us work it out, OK?" one HPD officer told the angry parents.
One mother of a student who was arrested ended up in handcuffs herself.



The first fight started around 9 a.m. when a bus rolled up carrying Katrina evacuees enrolled at the school.



According to police, someone threw a can at one of the evacuees and that set off a fight involving several students.



Ambulances were called to the scene to take the injured to Ben Taub Hospital. It's not clear whether they were evacuees or Houston students.



Of the five arrested, Two are from Louisiana and three are Houston students. All are charged with disruption of school activities.



Witnesses at the scene say today's incident was retaliation for another altercation on Friday.



Parents say tensions had been strained since the evacuees started school here last week.
"They beat my nephew up. We're from New Orleans," said one woman.



"We need to go home. We need to go home because ya'll don't want us here anyway," said another evacuee.



Michael Lewis says, from his perspective, the students are just mirroring the frustration of many adults.



"You have ladies that have been trying to get on welfare and food stamps, trying to get government assistance, housing. And then evacuees coming here and getting it instantly," said Lewis. "The whole city is a melting pot."



HISD says officials reminded students that fighting of any kind will not be tolerated.



"We expect our children to have behave better than this. Also we've said to the New Orleans kids, you are our guest, but you have to follow the rules." said HISD spokesman Terry Abbott.



Extra police officers and a group of ministers will try to help keep the peace at the school beginning Wednesday.



About 200 evacuees are attending Jones High School in the 7400 block of St. Lo. That's the largest number of evacuee students in any Houston school.



HISD officials say a total of 3,000 Louisiana students are attending their schools.

[Big Andy]

Originally Posted by ChunkyAcidReflux

The scene got even uglier when parents arrived.



A loud verbal confrontation broke out between mothers of some of the students involved in the first fight.



"They jumped on my nephew inside this school, busted him in the head. They're sending him to the hospital," yelled one woman.
Police separated the group of women and threatened to arrest them if they didn't calm down.



"They jumped on my son, but yet you want to arrest me," complained one mother.



"Let us work it out, OK?" one HPD officer told the angry parents.
One mother of a student who was arrested ended up in handcuffs herself.

And of course this is the problem right here. Adults don't even know how to behave, why the hell do they expect kids to? People quit growing up in this country it seems. So many parents these days are just adolescents with better jobs who have no business trying to be parents when they have the maturity levels of high school sophomores.

Originally Posted by ChunkAcidReflux

Parents say tensions had been strained since the evacuees started school here last week.
"They beat my nephew up. We're from New Orleans," said one woman.



"We need to go home. We need to go home because ya'll don't want us here anyway," said another evacuee.

This is probably the saddest part of all. I bet alot of these Houston kids have conservative parents filling them with lies like "The refugees from New Orleans are the scum of the earth, just a bunch of bums and criminals milking the welfare system, if they couldn't get on the bus, they should have started walking!" And then the bus full of kids from New Orleans rolls in to spread the districts funds thinner, and the kids get pissed and are aggressive towards the evacuees. I'm also sure alot of the evacuees parents and kids are seeing the world through a strange filter because of all the racial tension that's been raised by this disaster. Alot of them may have some anti-white sentiments reinforced by this whole ordeal.

But of course this has to be a rift that causes physical altercations because neither side knows how to behave. It's absolutely ridiculous that a massive natural disaster is dividing the country up into sides instead of uniting us to help each other. When we aren't even compassionate towards natural disaster victims, something is terribly wrong.

Originally Posted by ChunkyAcidReflux

Michael Lewis says, from his perspective, the students are just mirroring the frustration of many adults.



"You have ladies that have been trying to get on welfare and food stamps, trying to get government assistance, housing. And then evacuees coming here and getting it instantly," said Lewis. "The whole city is a melting pot."

So it's frustrating that someone who just got their entire city obliterated by a natural disaster takes priority over someone who has a home in the city they originally wanted to live in? Bullshit. Tell them I'll be happy to bulldoze their homes and relocate them to a city where they don't know anyone and leave them penniless. I doubt they will want to make that sacrifice to get on wellfare.

What ridiculousness!

I'm rolling my eyes so far back in my head at this story that I can see the top of my brainstem.

[la dj]

Extra police officers and a group of ministers will try to help keep the peace at the school beginning Wednesday.

what the hell can a minister do??? that's the last person a high school kid's going to listen to. no?

[St. Stalin the Apathetic]

Originally Posted by la dj

what the hell can a minister do??? that's the last person a high school kid's going to listen to. no?

not sure about you but I'm certain I'd be more reluctant to fuck with a man of god than I would with a guy with just a badge.... bad bad mojo vs maybe a reprimand from the school? Easy choice I'm thinking

[Dionysos]

Originally Posted by xian

not sure about you but I'm certain I'd be more reluctant to fuck with a man of god than I would with a guy with just a badge.... bad bad mojo vs maybe a reprimand from the school? Easy choice I'm thinking

Thinking is what separates you from most gang members in the first place.

[molecule]

Originally Posted by Big Andy

This is probably the saddest part of all. I bet alot of these Houston kids have conservative parents filling them with lies like "The refugees from New Orleans are the scum of the earth, just a bunch of bums and criminals milking the welfare system, if they couldn't get on the bus, they should have started walking!" And then the bus full of kids from New Orleans rolls in to spread the districts funds thinner, and the kids get pissed and are aggressive towards the evacuees.

I disagree. Mean while its the "conservative parents" volunteering at the astrodome, bringing in families thru their churches, and doing everything they can dispite the fact that their daughters are getting gang rapped while volunteering themselves.


"Michael Lewis says, from his perspective, the students are just mirroring the frustration of many adults.
"You have ladies that have been trying to get on welfare and food stamps, trying to get government assistance, housing. And then evacuees coming here and getting it instantly," said Lewis. "The whole city is a melting pot."

Yea, sound like some conserative parents right there, pist off cause they can't get food stamps as fast as evacuees, yep, SOOO many conservatives are pisted off about not getting their government assistance quick enough while the evacuees are getting all these hand outs from CONSERVATIVE PARENTS.

As you can see, I disagree with your assumtion. Id bet that most of the parents of the kids fighting were NOT conservatives, but quite the opposite.

Originally Posted by Big Andy

I'm also sure alot of the evacuees parents and kids are seeing the world through a strange filter because of all the racial tension that's been raised by this disaster. Alot of them may have some anti-white sentiments reinforced by this whole ordeal.

anti-white sentiments? all these people fighting here are black. WTF?

[St. Stalin the Apathetic]

Originally Posted by Big Andy

This is probably the saddest part of all. I bet alot of these Houston kids have conservative parents filling them with lies like "The refugees from New Orleans are the scum of the earth, just a bunch of bums and criminals milking the welfare system, if they couldn't get on the bus, they should have started walking!"

well - that's because you figured out conservatives... they're really evil people... but now that you've exposed their secret you better be on the lookout for their roving patrols of brownshirted elimination experts

[ChunkyAcidReflux]

Sounded to me like the poor in houston are pissed off that that there are now poorer people than them that will be sucking up all of the available resources.

[molecule]

Originally Posted by ChunkyAcidReflux

Sounded to me like the poor in houston are pissed off that that there are now poorer people than them that will be sucking up all of the available resources.

yep

[Rufus Punk]

Being a prior Houston resident and high school graduate, I can assure you that it is not black on black crime alone.

It is as someone called it already. The disenfranchised poor battling the already present poor in that sector. Jones, Yates, and a few of the other schools there hold that kind of reputation for being rough already. Take some outsiders wanting to run things and the powderkeg grows exponentially.