Originally Posted by BobG

Yes, that is my opinion, because I'm fucking from there and I've seen it happen. I see where Richard is coming from, but if the policy was to just let kids get pushed around a bit instead of prevention, administrators would be overwhelmed with controlling fights. Kids did actually get seriously injured and even stabbed when I was there. That's why prevention is a high priority there and that's why administrators acted as they did. Some of those Mexican kids in that area are with out a doubt, dangerous. If administrators did not act, the headline could have very well been, "Four Kids Stabbed On CDM". It's unfortunate that it's like that but it is. Strict policy dictates that administrators must act to do what they feel is best to protect the kids and that's what administrators had in mind when they acted. Surely you can't believe it was just for the sake of censorship of the US flag, that's absurd. Too absurd to be true.

Parents were actually already keeping their kids home that day because of the expectation that there might be "brown v brown" violence. Administrators were already on edge, there was heightened security and even police presence on campus. They would have been incompetent had they allowed a few goofballs to undermine their security measures.