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Fremont High Students Riot in Foothill Blvd - ORPN.org

Oakland Residents For Peaceful Neighborhood scores another news touchdown with this story on a riot that broke out at Fremont High School, and which gives an unflinching look at Oakland flatland school violence. Here's the story, as told by ORPN with a link back to their website for the rest of the story:

Fremont High Students Riot in Foothill Blvd.

A fight between two teenage women escalated into a mob that stopped traffic and attacked elderly bystanders.
The brawl began around 12:30 p.m. just outside Fremont High School on Foothill Blvd. at 48th Street. A resident of a house on Foothill Blvd. saw a young man holding a clutch of hair. Soon men in tricked-out cars and on decorated bicycles equipped with boom boxes gathered and escalated the chaos.
Traffic could not proceed while the mob occupied Foothill Blvd. One couple took an elderly lady into their vehicle in order to protect her from attack. She had been waiting for the bus. However, the bus driver soon closed his doors and refused to admit anyone.
The Melrose branch library is located at the intersection. Library staff locked the door and called the police. However, they never saw police respond, neither from Fremont High nor from the Oakland Police Department. One reason may be that three other fights broke out at other locations at or around Fremont High School at the same time...more

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