Brawl breaks out at anger management assembly

gldstwmn · #1 04-03-2004, 05:46 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/04/....ap/index.html

Brawl breaks out at anger management assembly
Friday, April 2, 2004 Posted: 2:29 PM EST (1929 GMT)

WOODLAWN, Maryland (AP) -- A brawl broke out during an anger management assembly at a suburban high school.

Two people were arrested and 11 students were suspended after a shoving match escalated into a melee during Thursday's assembly.

Authorities said a confrontation between a student's mother and a group of girls who had been bothering her daughter turned into a shouting match, and led to pushing and hitting, before the crowd of 750 students erupted into "chaos," said C. Anthony Thompson, principal of Woodlawn High School.

The melee began as students on stage acted out peaceful ways to resolve conflict during the assembly was organized by Sheppard Pratt Health System.

"People were climbing over seats and started fighting about stupid stuff," said ninth-grader Melissa Parks.

"Unfortunately, that original incident at the assembly became the catalyst for other fights," said Douglas J. Neilson, a spokesman for Baltimore County schools.

It took about 15 minutes to defuse the situation, Thompson said.

The mother, who was not identified because she had not been brought before a commissioner, was to be charged with trespassing and disrupting school activities, said Officer Shawn Vinson, a spokesman for the police department.

The daughter, who was not identified because she is a minor, was to be charged with second-degree assault, he said.

Thompson said some of the suspended students might be recommended for expulsion.

strandinthewind · #2 04-03-2004, 05:47 PM

It is horrible that people got hurt, etc., but I just LMAO reading that

gldstwmn · #3 04-03-2004, 05:49 PM

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Originally posted by strandinthewind
It is horrible that people got hurt, etc., but I just LMAO reading that

I know. It gave me a good chuckle too.

wondergirl9847 · #4 04-03-2004, 05:50 PM

Sounds like they need to heed the advice of their assembly.

strandinthewind · #5 04-03-2004, 05:53 PM

Its sort of reminds me of when my "last of the red hot mammas" paternal Grandmother (she sings like Sophie Tucker) and her "Rosary Group" would meet every Wednesday for like 30 years to say the Rosary. Well, they each would show up with one of those nasty huge boxes/jugs of cheap wine, consume it all, then gossip about every woman in town, and then AND ONLY then would they say the Rosary to pray to God for forgiveness