George Saucier, who lives near Sojourner Truth Academy in the Uptown area, wasn’t at all surprised by the chaotic scene that unfolded outside the school Tuesday. The school and its administrators, he said, have a serious lack of control over its students. Witnesses said the fight involved students and parents, and spilled out into the [...]

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A fight at a Fulton County high school spilled into a neighbor’s property. State police in McConnellsburg said a 16-year-old boy and a 17-year-old boy were involved in a fight Monday at 3 p.m. outside McConnellsburg High School. The two were not identified because they are juveniles. As they were fighting, they fell through a [...]

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A girls bathroom in Ludington Middle School in Detroit was home to a brutal fight club in which girls would fight while others would cheer them on and tape it. The family of 13-year-old Jasmine Crawley brought the fight club to authorities’ attention after a video of Crowley fighting in the bathroom was posted on [...]

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The Supreme Court has granted a retrial to a woman who sued a Ballarat Primary School for injuries she incurred when restraining an aggressive student. Margaret Rees was an integration aide at the school at Delecombe when she intervened to stop one child from attacking another in 2003. She alleged she suffered anxiety, a major [...]

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TTAPR on November 8th, 2011

Two Lawrence Central High School students were arrested Friday following a fight at school. According to the police report, one of the girls, 14, brought a socket wrench to school to use as a weapon. During his investigation, the reporting officer learned that the girls exchanged threats of physical harm via text message and social [...]

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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 September 27th, 2011

Police cars swarmed Monday around Thomas R. Proctor High School, blocking off streets while officers waited on nearby corners for the school’s roughly 2,600 students to be dismissed. The show of force came after a large fight Friday on Hoover Avenue that involved around 150 youths crowding the block surrounding a fight in front of [...]

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A lunchtime fight at Oakland High School Thursday left a 16-year-old girl with superficial knife wounds on her face, according to accounts from school district police officers at the scene and school district spokesman Troy Flint. Police said it appeared that the 16-year-old was injured after she and another student attacked a girl — who [...]

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TTAPR on September 23rd, 2011

Commentary: This story is interesting because the sheriff states the standard for legal use of force. “He had to use an equal amount or step above to stop what was going on,” he said “At one point one of the females pulled a knife on the officer. The officer at that point could’ve went up [...]

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Nine bystanders in the hallway of a Bronx high school were hit with mace when a school safety officer sprayed at a student in an attempt to break up a fight on Thursday morning, the police said. The officer tried to intervene in a fistfight between an 18-year-old student and a 16-year-old student outside the [...]

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