Breaking Up Fight, Police Pepper-Spray Students at Narbonne High
Melissa Pamer, NBC Los Angeles, October 4, 2012
Forty-seven patients were examined after police used pepper spray to break up a fight at Narbonne High School in Harbor City, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
A fire department spokesman and a Los Angeles Unified School District spokeswoman both stated the treatment was taking place after school police used pepper spray. It wasn’t clear where on campus the incident occurred.
Witnesses said a fight between two girls escalated and others became involved, then a female police officer pulled out the pepper spray.
“The lady just said, ‘Disperse.’ She didn’t give nobody no time to leave, she just started spraying. She was going crazy with the spray,” one student witness said. “People that was walking past that wasn’t even involved got sprayed.”
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Aerial video showed two patients being wheeled to waiting ambulances. Several fire trucks sat outside the Harbor Area school, which had about 3,300 students last year.
[Editor’s Note: Narbonne High School is 61.8% Hispanic, 17.4% black, and 8.2% white.]
