A group of students from Venezuela were punched and kicked by local teens
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A group of students from Venezuela were punched and kicked by local teens near Sullivan High School in Rogers Park on Wednesday afternoon, said Ricky D'Gucci, an activist who spoke to the students after the altercation.
At around 2:45 p.m., two 15-year-old males and two 17-year-old males were on the sidewalk when they were injured by a group, according to a police report.
Police said one person in the group hit the teens with a bat. The teens sustained minor injuries and no one was in custody, the report said.
According to D'Gucci, the Venezuelan teens walk about 30 minutes to school every morning from a city-run shelter at a Super 8 motel on the Far North Side. He said the fight was likely race related, and that the perpetrators were older than the Venezuelans.
"The only reason they got them was because they were Latinos," he said. "They got pretty beat up."
The city has received over 15,000 migrants since September of last year, with over 9,000 now staying in city-run shelters and hundreds attending Chicago public schools. Severe inflation and economic and political instability is driving record numbers of Venezuelans to the southern U.S. border, which is overwhelming the public schools and hospitals in sanctuary cities like Chicago.
The city was expecting to receive nine buses Friday, according to Office of Emergency Management spokesperson Mary May.
According to D'Gucci, there have been a lot of fights at Sullivan High. The teens told him that two were suspended.
"They're just kids. They came to work and go to school, and now they're scared to go back," he said.
In an email to parents and guardians Thursday, Sullivan High School Principal Jeff Cooks acknowledged the incident, and said the school was working to de-escalate these types of altercations and handle them in accordance with Chicago Public Schools policies.
"Please know that we are taking this situation extremely seriously to ensure the safety of our school community. We have requested additional safety support from the Office of Safety and Security as part of our efforts. If your child has voiced any fears or concerns to you about this situation, please let us know so we can ensure their social-emotional needs are met," Cooks wrote in the email.
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God bless America.
You can try to blame Murkins, but the story does specify 'local teens' - those native to a sanctuary city.
Is this the new corner on NT dedicated to the day's crimes? It should be busy. Leave a little space for Biden though.
Aren't you going to identify the group that attacked them?
“In a letter to constituents on Friday, Hadden insisted the incident was not a hate crime.”
“The fight broke out between a group of Afghan students and Venezuelan students over cultural differences,” she stated, without explaining what those differences were.
The seeder lost interest in the topic pretty quickly when he couldn't blame Americans for being racist.
Only in America do Afghans and Venezuelans rumble.
Maybe. I'm more interested though in the right wingers here who have no interest in the seed about Trump using Hitler like language in his insane attack on the migrants.
Are you saying that there are no criminals, gang members, murderers, thieves, rapists, traffickers of women and children, and a terrorist or two amongst the millions of border jumpers???
Trump wasn't talking about all the immigrants, just the probably sizeable numbers of the above categories
Please dont look clueless about this. Trump used similar language to what Adolph Hitler did when Hitler was talking about the Jews. Trump isnt creative enough to use a phrase like "poisoning our blood" with his own brainpower so he got it from someone else. That someone would be Hitler. It is possible the Nazi like Stephen Miller wrote his comments for him and Trump just memorized it.
I wouldn’t expect that Trump has read anything that Hitler wrote or said.
That’s more likely.
Biden's border chickens are coming home to roost.
Cluck! Cluck!
Hmmmm...
"We aren't anti-immigration, but keep them the hell away from us and our kids...."
Prostitution, narcotic hot spots...
The base isn't happy...
Damn skippy lucky they weren't shot, just another day in a big city shithole. Venezuela is probably safer than Chicago.
In Venezuela the students just have the commies to worry about, Chicago has the gangs and afghani migrants attacking them
If they had not let them in this would not have happened
Meanwhile, American citizen teens didn’t have time to rumble as they were too busy flash mob stealing cell phones, kicks and hoodies …..