MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) - A number of police cars responded to Minneapolis South High School Thursday after an alleged food fight escalated into a melee involving 200 to 300 students.
Sgt. William Palmer, of the Minneapolis Police Department, said no weapons were involved in the incident. However, four people were taken to the hospital following the melee. Police were pelted by thrown objects as they rushed to break up the brawl.
Twelve people complained that they had been sprayed with mace. Police at the scene said they had to use chemical agent to get the crowd under control as they were being pelted with objects as they tried to break things up.
One student, Abdi Sheikh, said he saw hundreds of students fighting in what appeared to be a racial incident. "A big riot," he said. "It was all types of races."
Another student, Symone Glasker, said that an initial fight happened during the school's first lunch period. By the time the third lunch period started, all the hype from the initial fight caused tensions to boil over. She said the fights were over pride. "I know it's a pride thing between Muslims and black people," she said. "They want their pride back for something. I don't know." She also said "boys were hitting girls" and that some people were lying on the floor, with their hands over their heads, in surrender.
The fight, students say, was the result of long-simmering tensions between the 8 percent of students who are Somali Americans and the 20 percent who are African Americans.
The Somalis are African, not African-Americans, and as Muslims they are taught to think of Christians as an inferior species. Naturally, the idiots in charge of the Minneapolis school system praised the school's diversity in response to a diverse riot.
Stan Alleyne, the Minneapolis Public Schools chief of communications, gave a statement, saying South High is a school that continually makes the district proud. "South is a very diverse high school," Alleyne said. "It is a microcosm of the city. Students function together at a high level every day. That is the strength of this school. Our students live diversity every day."
Yes and some days they live diversity more than others. Eventually diversity will kill many of them. Given time, a form of diversity that involves importing large numbers of immigrants from violent and bigoted societies will kill us all.
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