A student kicked a police officer in the face during a series of fights at a Milwaukee high school on Friday.
Police say they used a stun gun to stop an 18-year-old student after she kicked an officer at James Madison Academic Campus high school.
Police headed to the school after 2:15 p.m. when several fights erupted, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Police arrested eight people for disorderly conduct. Three of them are also accused of resisting or obstructing an officer.
The superintendent says the district will discipline the students involved in the fighting.
The fight comes just one day after a similar event took place at Washington High School.
Police had to be called to break up a massive all-in school brawl after fighting broke out between students in the cafeteria.
Officials for Dekaney High School in Harris County, in Houston, Texas, said the fight started between four students on Friday.
But mobile phone footage shot by a witness shows at least 20 students punching and kicking each other and jumping on tables.
It is not the first time mass-fighting at Derkaney has made news, with several small-scale riots videoed and posted on the internet last year.
Students who witnessed the chaos on Friday said it was like a riot.
“All these people came and just started hitting everybody — after a while I got hit and everybody just started fighting, so I hit back,” student Maya Rodriguez told local TV news station KHOU11.
Parents and students say they are fed up with the school and no longer feel it is safe.
“We feel like this is getting out of control, way out of control,” one mother said who did not want to be identified.
The mother said her son was not involved in the fight on Friday because he had been attacked in the school’s hallway on Thursday and she decided to keep him at home.
Tags: school brawl, unsafe school
Police in Maryland’s Anne Arundel County say an 18-year-old was severely injured in a fight with another teen across the street from Broadneck Senior High School in Annapolis.
Police say that according to a preliminary investigation the 18-year-old got into a fight with a 15-year-old student Friday at approximately 2:15 p.m., just after the school dismissed students. The two apparently knew each other and the 15-year old allegedly struck the other man, causing a significant injury to the area of his right eye. Police found the 18-year-old on the ground and took him to a hospital.
Police say no charges have been filed at this time, but the investigation is ongoing.
The Maryland Department of Juvenile Services is taking steps to obtain the early release of a 15-year-old female who pleaded guilty to the April 2011 hate crime beating of transgender woman Chrissy Lee Polis at a McDonald’s restaurant outside Baltimore.
According to Baltimore County Assistant State’s Attorney John Cox, DJS officials recently informed his office that they planned to petition a juvenile court judge to grant early release for the juvenile. Cox said his office will oppose the early release request at a court proceeding expected to take place later this month.
“We will definitely make it known to the judge that we oppose this,” Cox told the Blade on Thursday.
The incident attracted international attention after a McDonald’s employee captured the attack on video through his cell phone and posted it online, where it went viral.
The video shows Brown and the juvenile repeatedly punching and kicking Polis in the head and body while dragging her by her hair across the floor of the restaurant. Polis was 22 at the time.
Brown, who was charged as an adult, was sentenced to five years in prison and three years of probation, which is to begin at the time her release. The juvenile was sentenced to a juvenile offender facility for an undetermined period of time.
DJS recommends to a juvenile court judge whether a juvenile offender should be released from a secured facility and a judge makes the decision on whether to accept the recommendation, he said. If the recommendation is contested by prosecutors, a court hearing is held to give the parties an opportunity to argue their respective positions, Cleary said.
Cox said that under Maryland law, DJS determines when a juvenile offender has been rehabilitated to a degree where he or she is ready for release. It then petitions a juvenile court judge to seek release of the juvenile, with the judge making the final decision on the request for release.
Cox said the judge would take into consideration the position of the prosecutor, which, in this case, is the Baltimore County State’s Attorney’s office.
Mark Scurti, an attorney representing Polis, said he plans to inform the court that Polis joins the State’s Attorney’s office in opposing early release for the juvenile. He said he would seek permission to have Polis testify in opposition to the release if the judge calls a court hearing on the matter.
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A 17-year-old boy stabbed and wounded another 17-year-old boy during an apparently gang-related fight Thursday at Beltsville’s High Point High School, authorities said.
The incident occurred about 11 a.m. in a breezeway at the school, said Cpl. Henry Tippett, a Prince George’s County Police spokesman. He said the assailant used some type of small knife to stab the victim in the leg and torso, then fled from the school. The victim, he said, was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries and is expected to recover.
Tippett said investigators have obtained an arrest warrant for the 17-year-old suspect, but they have not yet located him. He said he believed both people involved in the fights were students, but he was working to confirm that.
Briant Coleman, a Prince George’s County schools spokesman, confirmed that a fight occurred at High Point about 11 a.m., but he said school security personnel were still investigating other details.
The family of a boy who was shot to death at a Madison County middle school in 2010 is suing Madison school officials and others. They say the school officials failed to protect him from a problem student.
The News Courier reports (http://bit.ly/z6WjDi ) the lawsuit was filed Thursday in Madison County.
The suit states that school officials — including the school board, Superintendent Dee Fowler and Principal Robbie Smith — failed to protect Todd Brown from another student who had a history of behavioral issues.
Brown’s family maintains that the other student should not have been transferred to Discovery Middle School because of a history of bad behavior, and that school officials were aware of that history.
Yesterday a violent youth released from OCFS’ juvenile custody shot a NYC police officer in the back of the head critically wounding him. OCFS’ staff who have been repeatedly injured by these youth offenders and Civil Service Employees Association, are using this latest high profile crime in New York City as just another illustration of what happens when young violent criminals are released from state custody.
Ortiz has made NYC’s headlines following his alleged Tuesday night shooting of a city police officer in Brooklyn. While the officer, Kevin Brennan, is expected to survive, Ortiz has been playing up to the crowds and cameras with no apparent remorse for the alleged shooting.
The youth shooter, Luis Ortiz was released from OCFS’s Goshen Secure Center in Orange County and returned to New York City where he was also wanted in another homicide.
In the wake of the brutal shooting of a New York City police officer by a former resident of a state operated juvenile detention center, CSEA (and OCFS employees) slammed OCFS Commissioner Carrtion and thestate Office of Children and Family Services’ (OCFS) plan to escalate the release of juvenile offenders, including violent juvenile offenders, from upstate facilities and place them in community programs.
Officer Kevin Brennan was critically injured Jan. 21 after being shot in the back of the head inside a Brooklyn public housing project. The suspected shooter, Luis (Baby) Ortiz, had been released by OCFS from the Goshen Secure Center in Orange County. Police said Ortiz, who had violently assaulted an aide while at the facility, was also wanted for the New Year’s Day murder of 34-year-old Shannon McKinney in front of a Brooklyn supermarket.
It appears that Ortiz was released by the NYS Office of Children and Family Services when his time was served, even though he was in the county jail on assault charges after an altercation with staff and could have had his time extended by the agency.
While OCFS continues to downsize, there is little detail in OCFS’ proposal for how they plan to do this. Critics of the plan proclaim, “You can’t just announce an undertaking as large as this and offer no plan or any details whatsoever as to how you intend for it to work,”
CSEA President Danny Donohue said residents at state juvenile detention centers are put there because they belong there. Many act out violently and, but for their age, most would be in prison for the crimes they committed. Some have serious mental health and substance abuse issues that successive OCFS administrations have failed to address, even in secure settings. Many of the youth have been sent by the courts to state facilities after multiple offenses and after less restrictive programs have failed to change their behavior.
“There are real public safety concerns that need to be addressed here,”
“It makes no sense whatsoever to put these felons — violent, repeat offenders — back into the very neighborhoods where they got in trouble in the first place.”
CSEA and OCFS employees have been calling for a more responsible approach to New York state’s juvenile justice system for years, warning about dangerously deteriorating conditions at state juvenile detention facilities, including one at which 19 staff, including the facility director, have recently been victims of violent attacks by youths in their care.
News reports recently revealed that 18 out of 33 youth division aides (YDAs) currently employed at the Taberg Residential Center in Oneida County are out of work due to severe injuries suffered in attacks by residents.
Their injuries include two broken collarbones, a concussion, a broken ankle and a dislocated shoulder. To cover for their injured co-workers and provide the round-the-clock supervision residents require, the remaining aides must work double shifts, making their physically and emotionally draining jobs even more stressful and more dangerous.
Taberg is symptomatic of a larger problem. According to a report issued by the state Department of Civil Service on state employee Workers’ Compensation claims, YDAs have the second highest on-the-job injury rate of all state job titles.
Violent attacks on staff by youths in their care have increased at an alarming rate under current OCFS policies that include shifting the agency from a correctional model to a so-called “sanctuary model” which centers on reducing or eliminating restraints and providing more therapeutic care. In current OCFS policy, violent youth are not held accountable for infractions that would increase their length of stay in OCFS facilities. Additionally, the Goshen Secure Center has been found in violation of the Public Employee Safety and Health Act by the NY State Department of Labor for not addressing conditions that have led to an increase in workplace violence incidents at the facility.
Current community-based programs are entirely inadequate to handle the challenges presented by youths being dumped into them. “City officials, including Mayor Bloomberg, who welcome this proposal as some kind of jobs bill better be careful what you wish for,” Donohue said, “This will be another Rene Greco times a hundred.”
Donohue was referring to the murder of Buffalo area direct care worker Rene Greco (who was beaten to death) by a youth who had been released by OCFS to her care. Not to mention the shooting of Rochester police officer Anthony DiPonzio by a youth who escaped from OCFS’ custody.
These tragic incidents are only some of the glaring examples of what results when violent youth are inappropriately released into the community.
Tags: Commissioner Carrion, cop shooting, Danny Donahue, gladys carrion, goshen secure, Luis Ortiz, ocfs, ocfs commissioner, Taberg residential center
Less than a year after he beat a woman at a Murrieta Chuck E. Cheese’s, the 17-year-old groped a woman at a playground.
A woman who was jumped and beaten last year by a 16-year-old boy lurking in the ladies restroom at a Murrieta Chuck E. Cheese restaurant says the teen has struck again, groping a woman who was walking across a playground with her two young children.
The boy, now 17, admitted to sexual battery and child endangerment Tuesday in juvenile court at the Southwest Justice Center in French Valley, less than a year after admitting to assault and false imprisonment in the Chuck E. Cheese’s incident, said Nora Reynoso, of Menifee, the woman in the first attack.
Reynoso, 40, was visiting Chuck E. Cheese’s at Hancock Avenue and Los Alamos Road a year ago today with her boyfriend and 2-year-old granddaughter. When she walked into the restroom, a young man burst out of a stall, grabbed her and threw her to the ground, she said.
He climbed on top of her and pummeled her before she could escape, Reynoso said. Her boyfriend held the teen until police arrived and arrested him.
Reynoso said she was dismayed when the teen was sentenced to time served in the attack, but she was even more alarmed when she learned he had attacked another woman Aug. 31.
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Home > Local News > Riverside County > Murrieta > Murrieta Headlines February 01, 2012 09:05 PM PST February 01, 2012 10:19 PM PST MURRIETA: Teen’s second attack sparks first victim’s anger
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MURRIETA: Teen’s second attack sparks first victim’s anger
Less than a year after he beat a woman at a Murrieta Chuck E. Cheese’s, the 17-year-old groped a woman at a playground
SARAH BURGE/STAFF PHOTO Nora Reynoso, 40, of Menifee, was attacked and beaten by a 16-year-old boy in the ladies room at a Chuck E. Cheese’s in Murrieta last year. Less than a year later, the teen admitted in juvenile court to groping another woman at a nearby apartment complex. 1 of 3
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A woman who was jumped and beaten last year by a 16-year-old boy lurking in the ladies restroom at a Murrieta Chuck E. Cheese restaurant says the teen has struck again, groping a woman who was walking across a playground with her two young children.
The boy, now 17, admitted to sexual battery and child endangerment Tuesday in juvenile court at the Southwest Justice Center in French Valley, less than a year after admitting to assault and false imprisonment in the Chuck E. Cheese’s incident, said Nora Reynoso, of Menifee, the woman in the first attack.
Reynoso, 40, was visiting Chuck E. Cheese’s at Hancock Avenue and Los Alamos Road a year ago today with her boyfriend and 2-year-old granddaughter. When she walked into the restroom, a young man burst out of a stall, grabbed her and threw her to the ground, she said.
He climbed on top of her and pummeled her before she could escape, Reynoso said. Her boyfriend held the teen until police arrived and arrested him.
Reynoso said she was dismayed when the teen was sentenced to time served in the attack, but she was even more alarmed when she learned he had attacked another woman Aug. 31.
Reynoso didn’t hear about it until she was called to testify against the teen Tuesday in juvenile court at the Southwest Justice Center in French Valley.
“I’m angry at this point. Obviously, there’s no consequences, so he did it again,” Reynoso said. “How many times do you think he has done this and just not got caught?”
Murrieta police disclosed the groping and arrest at the time, and said the teen was on felony probation. But they did not specify that he was the same person in the Chuck E. Cheese’s attack. His name was not released because he is a minor.
This week, the woman in the second case, 20-year-old Beatriz Martinez, of Murrieta, spoke publicly for the first time about the attack.
Martinez said she had gone to pick up her two children, both younger than 3, from her mother at the Rancho Las Brisas Apartments on Los Alamos Road and Hancock Avenue. It was mid-afternoon as she headed back to her car.
Crossing the playground in the complex courtyard she was grabbed and held from behind, Martinez said. The attacker groped her breasts and rubbed his body against her for several seconds while her children looked on, Martinez said. When she managed to pull away, he shoved her, knocking her 2-year-old son, to the ground.
Martinez said the teen ran, turning to laugh at her as he left. She cursed him but could not chase him because of her children.
“My son was crying,” she said.
The next day, Martinez and her husband went looking for the suspect around Murrieta Mesa High School. They found him walking not far from the school. Her husband got out of the car and tried to grab him but the teen ran. Martinez said she called the police and yelled at the teen.
“I told him, ‘Do you remember me?’ ”
Her husband chased him down and held him until officers arrived, she said.
“My son was crying,” she said.
The next day, Martinez and her husband went looking for the suspect around Murrieta Mesa High School. They found him walking not far from the school. Her husband got out of the car and tried to grab him but the teen ran. Martinez said she called the police and yelled at the teen.
“I told him, ‘Do you remember me?’ ”
Her husband chased him down and held him until officers arrived, she said.
Reynoso and Martinez said the teen was sentenced Tuesday to 60 to 120 days in Juvenile Hall and will be released after 60 days if he behaves well.
Riverside County district attorney’s officials could not confirm or deny that information — or even acknowledge the case’s existence.
A hallway fight caught on tape at Waverly High School has many parents questioning the security at the high school. The fight happened last Thursday at the high school. Students recorded the brawl, and then uploaded it to YouTube.
Parents are upset because they say fights happen at the high school all the time, and they are demanding the district take action.
In the YouTube video, a crowd of students at begin to gather around two girls in an argument. When the blows turn physical, a security guard tries to step in, but another fight breaks out. That’s when one student pulls out pepper spray.
According to Owens, these fights happen frequently, and it’s not unusual to see them posted on the web.
“These have been going on for a long time,” Owens said. “They are being recorded and posted to YouTube, Facebook, you name it – they’re there.”
Owens says her son was attacked by other students in May when he was walking home from school. A few months later, the video turned up on Facebook.
“I can’t even watch the whole thing,” said Owens. “It makes me sick.”
Now she’s demanding action from school administrators.
“It’s sad you can’t go to school to get an education, you have to worry about if there’s people fighting or whatever,” Owens said. “It’s stupid, it really is. And something has got to be done.”
General Observation. The school is saying fights are rare, yet their students are carrying pepper spray for self-protection. Just saying.
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