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Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Thursday, November 12, 2009 11:50:28 AM
Eighth-graders Cassandra and Aliyah Russell of Chicago never imagined they'd be arrested in their school cafeteria, much less for throwing food.
But that's just what happened following lunchtime mayhem last Thursday at the Perspectives Charter Middle School, south of Chicago. More than two dozen students, ages 11 to 15, were rounded up by police, arrested and charged with misdemeanor reckless conduct.
"They took us to jail, fingerprinted us, mugshotted us, or whatever, all because of a food fight...I was arrested. Handcuffs on," 13-year-old Cassandra told ABC News.
(I don't know if we should take up the time of the police of having to arrest students who take part in a food fight. Perhaps these students should have been given a paddling, made to clean up what they did, and have to work in the school kitchen, etc. Read more of the above story right here.)
