Thursday, November 24, 2011

Albuquerque Police Monitor Racial Tensions at Highland High

Police say they were called Friday to help calm things down among Hispanic and African American students at Highland High School.

Rumors about outsiders coming to the school to fan the flames have APD stationing gang officers on campus next week.

KOB Eyewitness News 4 spoke to students and parents who want to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation.

One student describes what he saw at school Friday.

"Everybody is lined up to go to war basically...It's just a lot of fear because people are scared for their lives...people are crying and running and basically scared to death. I know I was,” the student said.

Albuquerque Public Schools said a fight between two boys on Wednesday caused two different groups to become at odds with each other.

This student said it boils down to a racial conflict.

"All the black people want to fight the Mexicans and all the Mexicans want to fight the black people - it's as simple as that, that's as simple as you can put it," she said.

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10 comments:

  1. Not sure how this got by me.

    We are loaded up round these parts. The cartels are all around. These kids got no chance, simple pawns
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    Albuquerque is 3 hours as a bird flies from Juarez, state population 2 million, the entire state covers 120,000 square miles.

    Not alot of eyes between here and there.

    God help us when it breaks.

    Mozart

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  2. My wife loves North Carolina (has family there), I lived in Virginia (love Jamestown) and we shot a couple of IDPA State matches in Alabama.

    Are you daring me.. are you?

    In all seriousness, I love the culture of the South. (bet that's a surprise:))

    For now we will live it in spirit, need some time and luck to become a reality.

    Never know.

    Mozart

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  3. Correction;

    South not North Carolina, Mt. Pleasent.

    Mozart

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  4. That's about four hours from here if you go down the coast and I see right above Charleston where we went for the Hunley Funeral/Parade/Ball. An absolutely beautiful city. I imagine you come visit there at times.

    http://www.namsouth.com/viewtopic.php?t=206&highlight=hunley

    http://www.namsouth.com/viewtopic.php?t=35&highlight=hunley

    http://www.namsouth.com/viewtopic.php?t=1968&highlight=hunley

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  5. Great pictures!

    Beautiful place!

    Want to get back. It's been to long.

    Mozart

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