(Photo courtesy of the Stockton Police Department.)
The police have guns, don't they? Time to protest guns with rock throwing.
Come on down to Stockton, where the media's push for student protests turned violent. There's nothing like a violent protest to oppose violence.
SPD NEWS: MULTIPLE DEMONSTRATIONS AT AREA HIGH SCHOOLS TO DENOUNCE GUN VIOLENCE LEAVES VEHICLES DAMAGED AND SEVERAL STUDENTS ARRESTED
Today, there were several student-led protests against gun violence at some of our local high schools. During one protest, over a couple of hundred students walked off campus. While many of these students were demonstrating peacefully against gun violence, several students took this opportunity to commit acts of violence against our community members and officers. Rocks were thrown by these students which caused damage to uninvolved vehicles and Stockton Police vehicles. During one incident, as a Stockton Police Officer was patrolling the area of a high school which was on lockdown, the officer saw several students leaving campus by jumping a fence. The officer went to contact the students when the students fought with the officer and took his baton. A citizen saw what was happening and came to the officer’s aid until more officers arrived.
It's another of those "peaceful protests". It's not as peaceful as the one that turned Baltimore into Murder City. But it was still plenty peaceful.
During one incident, an officer approached a group of students attempting to leave a school by jumping a fence. When the officer approached the students, police said they fought with the officer and took his baton.
The officer was patrolling an area of the high school while it was placed on lockdown. A person who saw the incident take place came to the officer’s aid until more officers arrived, police said.
They carried signs that read “No More Gun Violence,” and chanted to end school shootings. Barth said those students never left campus on Dr, Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and returned to class within the hour.
Students were alleged to have thrown rocks that caused damage to uninvolved vehicles and patrol cars. A woman told police that a rock was thrown through her car window while she was driving along Rose Marie and Precissi Lane that hit her in the shoulder but did not cause any injuries.
Now it's time to get the peaceful protests back on track.
"It started off good, like I see some chants going on, people trying to express their condolences," Washington, a junior, told FOX40.
Arrests and damage marred what was supposed to be a peaceful protest, and a social media post calling for another walkout Monday put many at the school on edge.
"We were so scared this morning," Washington told FOX40. "My heart is just racing, like 'please God.' Like, I’ve just been praying all day, like, 'God, don’t let that happen again.'"
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It’s a step the three leaders plan to take, and in a world they know is willing to listen, they want to make sure it represents the true Stagg High School.
"It may not change what happened but it’s a step in the right direction," Washington said. "Instead of letting something like that happen again, at least we are trying to do it the right way, the peaceful way without embarrassing our school and destructing someone’s property."
Aside from the banner, the students also put together apology letters to law enforcement.
Now that actually is peaceful.