School fight turns into riot
A fight between two high school students erupted into a riot of 500 people, prompting officers to fire bean bags and rubber pellets to scatter the crowd.
About 100 officers rushed to Fontana High School in California yesterday after students threw rocks and bottles at other officers and one another, according to Fontana police Sergeant Doug Wagner.
Police were last night investigating the cause of the fight.
He said: “We don’t know if it was gang related or if it was racially motivated.
“Some people were unhappy with one another, a fight broke out and it spilled over.”
Two students were arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, and four others were arrested for refusing to disperse and resisting arrest.
The brawl forced school officials to lock down the campus, and the school was closed several hours early, he said.
Fontana is about 50 miles east of Los Angeles.
