TTAPR on January 19th, 2012

A 15-year-old girl who is one of seven teens charged in the vicious gang beating of a 17-year-old boy in Chicago lured the victim into a snowy alley and shot the sickening video that later went viral on YouTube, police say. “It was planned and it was orchestrated so that victim would go to that [...]

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A no-holds-barred school brawl captured on cell phone video has led to the arrest and suspension of two teenage Chicago sisters for viciously beating a classmate, reports CBS station WBBM. The alleged assailants, Sara Mejorado, 17, and Aurelia Mejorado, 18, were charged with misdemeanor battery for the attack last week during a biology class at [...]

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TTAPR on October 28th, 2011

Police arrested 17 students at Gage Park High School on the city’s Southwest Side, after a fight broke out. Officers stopped one fight at the school, at 5630 S. Rockwell St., only to see another one break out in the hallway. About 12:40 p.m., police responded to a call of a fight on the third [...]

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Another name for this article could be: When Schools and Administrators Have Law Enforcement Take Over Classroom Management – First Graders Get Handcuffed for Talking in Class Chicago – A South Side family is suing Chicago Public Schools claiming their son was one of several 6 and 7-year-olds who were handcuffed for hours because they [...]

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A large fight near Evanston Township High School Tuesday afternoon that broke into smaller fights and resulted in a large response by Evanston police, who arrested four combatants and tasered one, was in part planned and announced with text messaging, police said. At 3:49 p.m. Tuesday, Evanston police officers were assigned to monitor the routine [...]

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The Springfield School District is getting rid of four school safety officers to trim $355,000 from its $9.5 million deficit budget. More police patrols at schools The Springfield Police Department is beefing up patrols around the three public high schools as a preventive measure. Police have been increasing patrols at the schools since August and [...]

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A group of four boys have been charged with attacking and attempting to rob a male bicyclist riding along a bike path along Lake Shore Drive on the city’s Near South Side around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday evening. The 37-year-old victim said the boys hit him with a replica wooden rifle, a blow which knocked him [...]

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7th Circuit ruled that A special education teacher cannot sue her school district in Federal Court for injuries suffered while trying to block an autistic child from hitting her with a chair. W.K. began second grade at White Eagle Elementary in 2005. Diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, the 7-year-old had a history of verbal outbursts and [...]

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TTAPR on February 11th, 2011

A Bolingbrook teen was released from jail without charges after police said he struck a police officer on a school bus. The teen was among two other teen boys on a Valley View school bus who were allegedly yelling profanities, throwing objects at the bus driver and fighting around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, police said. The [...]

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TTAPR on February 9th, 2011

Thirteen Foreman High School students are facing charges following a melee that erupted in a hallway at the Northwest Side school Thursday afternoon. The incident happened in a third floor hallway of the school. It started out as a spontaneous fight only between students but school security officers on the scene called the Chicago Police because of [...]

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