{"id":7368,"date":"2023-03-13T06:04:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T11:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=7368"},"modified":"2023-03-13T06:04:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T11:04:15","slug":"massive-fight-among-200-students-parents-at-louisiana-high-school-ends-in-10-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=7368","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Massive fight among 200 students, parents at Louisiana high school ends in 10 arrests<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An explosive fight at a Louisiana high school among nearly 200 students and parents ended with several cops injured and at least 10 arrests.<br>Swarms of police officers responded early March 8 to a \u201cmajor campus disturbance\u201d at East Baton Rouge Readiness Alternative School, finding a loaded gun abandoned on the ground,\u2002WBRZ reported.<br>Officials say one fight broke out and escalated, spilling out into the school\u2019s courtyard and gym. By the time police arrived, there were about 200 people involved in brawls across the campus.<br>Videos of the chaos taken inside the school\u2019s gym show chairs getting tossed and students being detained by law enforcement.<br>One shocking video shows a sheriff\u2019s deputy forcefully hitting a student\u2019s face into a brick wall. The officer was trying to arrest a 17-year-old student, authorities said.<br>One video shows an officer pushing a student into a brick wall while attempting to arrest the teen.WAFB<br>Police said the teen had punched the officer in the face and tried to bite him, which led to the aggressive encounter captured on video. The teen was among those charged with battery on an officer and resisting arrest.<br>Officials have not yet determined what triggered the massive melee at the school, which enrolls students who\u2019ve been previously suspended or expelled from other district schools.<br>Videos taken inside the school gymnasium captured the massive brawl that included students and parents.WBRZ<br>The NAACP released a statement Wednesday saying it was reviewing videos from the incident to decide if the aggressive police response captured on video was appropriate.<br>Officials have not yet determined what caused the massive brawl to break out at the school.WBRZ<br>The fight allegedly started with a small group of students but escalated into a larger clash involving parents and students fighting police as well.<br>One witness told WBRZ the brawl erupted when a girl who wasn\u2019t a student at the school and her mom showed up to fight another girl \u2014 and that it escalated from there.<br>Students were allegedly locked inside the gym during the fight. One responding police officer sustained injuries including a broken hip and head lacerations.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/03\/12\/fight-amo ng-200-brawlers-at-louisiana-hs-ends-in-10-arrests\/\">Nypost<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An explosive fight at a Louisiana high school among nearly 200 students and parents ended with several cops injured and at least 10 arrests.Swarms of police officers responded early March 8 to a \u201cmajor campus disturbance\u201d at East Baton Rouge Readiness Alternative School, finding a loaded gun abandoned on the ground,\u2002WBRZ reported.Officials say one fight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[3197],"class_list":["post-7368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-mass-brawl-between-students-and-parents-in-louisiana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7370,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368\/revisions\/7370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}