LONG BEACH : Police Called After Blacks, Latinos Clash at Jordan High
Racially charged fights broke out Thursday at Jordan High School in Long Beach, resulting in a police alert, nine arrests and a shortened school day, school officials said.
No one was injured in the fights, most of which were shoving matches between small groups of black and Latino students, said Dick Van Der Laan, spokesman for the Long Beach Unified School District. He said the disturbance began during lunch, when two Latinas and an African American girl, all suspected gang members, began fighting.
“As the security staff broke up one fight, there would be another starting someplace else,” Van Der Laan said. “There were a total of four or five fights.”
Administrators summoned Long Beach police, who sent dozens of officers. They organized a gradual release of students.
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