Brawl breaks out at Ohio kindergarten graduation
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CLEVELAND (AP) — A brawl that started over spilled punch at a kindergarten graduation ceremony Friday resulted in the arrest of eight people, authorities said. Police were called when one participant pulled out a pipe and another a hammer.
Two teenage girls apparently started hitting each other at Michael R. White Elementary School, and their families joined in, Cleveland police Cmdr. Wayne Drummond said. The fight involved adults and minors, he said.
"You had adults fighting adults, juvies fighting juvies, and so forth," he said as parents streamed into the building to pick up their children. "You just had a melee here."
No one was hurt, Drummond said.
No charges were immediately filed, but those arrested were being booked for aggravated rioting, Drummond said. By city practice, charges are filed after prosecutors review a case.
A parent of students at the school, Brianna Smith, went was alerted by a neighbor about the fight and went to the school to get her 7- and 12-year-old sons. "It makes me not want to send them for the rest of the school year," she told The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer.
City Councilman Jeff Johnson lives across the street from the school, which is in a blue-collar neighborhood overlooking the leafy University Circle arts and museum district. He said the spilled punch set off the fight, with one person pulling out a pipe and another a hammer, leading school security officers to call police.
"Mouthing off, one thing leads to another and it spills out here," Johnson said.
At least 10 patrols cars went to the scene.
"It was a very chaotic scene," according to Drummond, who said the fight erupted as the ceremony was ending about 11 a.m. and then moved outside.
Officers quickly restored order, Drummond said. More than the eight arrested were involved in the fight, and the initial heavy police response came amid a call, which turned out to be false, about shots fired, he said.
No students enrolled at the school were involved, school district communications officer Roseann Canfora said in an email.
The school was put on lockdown and parents began arriving to take their children home.
Johnson said the quick police response was important amid heightened concerns about school security.
"It is embarrassing that parents during a kindergarten promotion cannot control themselves, and what we tried to do was respond significantly," he said.
Any parent involved in the fight should be banned from the building, Johnson said. "We're not going to have people coming into our schools, being disrespectful, fighting. So I support them being hauled off," he said.
Two teenage girls apparently started hitting each other at Michael R. White Elementary School, and their families joined in, Cleveland police Cmdr. Wayne Drummond said. The fight involved adults and minors, he said.
"You had adults fighting adults, juvies fighting juvies, and so forth," he said as parents streamed into the building to pick up their children. "You just had a melee here."
No one was hurt, Drummond said.
No charges were immediately filed, but those arrested were being booked for aggravated rioting, Drummond said. By city practice, charges are filed after prosecutors review a case.
A parent of students at the school, Brianna Smith, went was alerted by a neighbor about the fight and went to the school to get her 7- and 12-year-old sons. "It makes me not want to send them for the rest of the school year," she told The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer.
City Councilman Jeff Johnson lives across the street from the school, which is in a blue-collar neighborhood overlooking the leafy University Circle arts and museum district. He said the spilled punch set off the fight, with one person pulling out a pipe and another a hammer, leading school security officers to call police.
"Mouthing off, one thing leads to another and it spills out here," Johnson said.
At least 10 patrols cars went to the scene.
"It was a very chaotic scene," according to Drummond, who said the fight erupted as the ceremony was ending about 11 a.m. and then moved outside.
Officers quickly restored order, Drummond said. More than the eight arrested were involved in the fight, and the initial heavy police response came amid a call, which turned out to be false, about shots fired, he said.
No students enrolled at the school were involved, school district communications officer Roseann Canfora said in an email.
The school was put on lockdown and parents began arriving to take their children home.
Johnson said the quick police response was important amid heightened concerns about school security.
"It is embarrassing that parents during a kindergarten promotion cannot control themselves, and what we tried to do was respond significantly," he said.
Any parent involved in the fight should be banned from the building, Johnson said. "We're not going to have people coming into our schools, being disrespectful, fighting. So I support them being hauled off," he said.
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kids having kids then act like kids when celebrating kids.
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plz be other than black
yea i know, odds are they black smfh -
Just saw the article on MSN, yep they're black. ?
I'm sick of these ghetto hoes ? up all over the place. Somebody need to setup a sting operation to get em all in one place and vaporize they ass.
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please be white, please be white, please be white, please be white, please be white, please be white, please be white, please be white, please be white, please be white, please be white...
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konceptjones wrote: »please be white, please be white, please be white, please be white, please be white, please be white, please be white, please be white, please be white, please be white, please be white...
sorry to disappoint. smh. rachet azzz hefas i swear
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/31/18657765-8-arrested-after-brawl-at-kindergarten-graduation?lite
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Ohio is the Florida of the Midwest....
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Lmfao!!!
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Cleveland Lawse
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*waits impatiently for Cleveland to surpass Detroit in despair*
I'll take Cincinnati or Toledo too. -
So ? ghetto.
Damn my black folks.
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another reason why i cant take young mothers seriously
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Added to the list of: "stupid ? black people do"
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Cleveland is a cesspool of ignorance.
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I wish I would have went to that graduation instead of my sons borin ass graduation
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Where the ? did they get pipes and hammers from
Was pipes and hammers just layin round, or did they bring that ?
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nobody got hurt. nobody can fight.
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Bet the fights were between a bunch of strong black single mothers who don't need no man.
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Between this and the backlash that the cheerios commercial had I'm ashamed to be black right now cause this ? has just added to the ? that other races can talk ? about and we as a whole can't say much cause it's us that's doing it. SMH
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movingfeet wrote: »Between this and the backlash that the cheerios commercial had I'm ashamed to be black right now cause this ? has just added to the ? that other races can talk ? about and we as a whole can't say much cause it's us that's doing it. SMH
? yourself.. seriously
whether you are black or white doesnt matter.. just jump -
I can picture these songs being played when this ? was going down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azxMwv9YFo0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCfwVYfmPR0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3PEB-8dLow
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From spilled punch to pipes and hammers
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reminds me of that worldstar vid where there's a big ass brawl in the street.. some dudes are fighting, then the camera pans over and shows some women fighting, then it moves over again and shows two little 7 year olds dukin' it out.
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Where the ? did they get pipes and hammers from
Was pipes and hammers just layin round, or did they bring that ?
And who the ? brings pipes and hammers to a graduation[/quot
two ratchets carrying hammers and pipes what are the odds of that happening? -
[delusionalpost]I have a sneaking suspicion that this is the work of White people... [/delusionalpost]