Food Fight Arrests

And although ABC tries to paint it as the fault of the police, it seems to actually say more about the lack of parenting:

• Eighth-graders Cassandra and Aliyah Russell of Chicago never imagined they'd be arrested in their school cafeteria, much less for throwing food.

  But that's just what happened following lunchtime mayhem last Thursday at the Perspectives Charter Middle School, south of Chicago. More than two dozen students, ages 11 to 15, were rounded up by police, arrested and charged with misdemeanor reckless conduct.

  "They took us to jail, fingerprinted us, mugshotted us, or whatever, all because of a food fight...I was arrested. Handcuffs on," 13-year-old Cassandra told ABC News.

  "We were suspended, went to jail and now have to go to court," said 14-year-old Aliyah.

  The sisters' mother, Erica, told ABC News she's stunned.

  "Who does that? Lock children up for throwing a carrot, a biscuit, milk, Jello," she said. "Who does that?"

Oh, we don't know. Maybe the Police do that? It's still a battery as far as we can tell. And many of these little princes and princesses talk their dumb asses into a trip to the station rather than a 3 day in-school suspension. If the school doesn't want to handle it internally, it falls on the police to be the bad guys.

And what does it say about the lack of parenting that these kids think they were wronged for being involved in school mayhem? Mama sticks up for them the whole way, so they're learning to manipulate the system already.

So next year, when they're over at Fenger, Manley, Crane, Farragut, Curie, Bogan, or any other of a dozen crap-tacular CPS high schools beating a fellow student to death with a railroad tie, lock-on-a-shoelace, or sock full of rocks, the media can wonder aloud why the police didn't do anything when the opportunity presented itself.