Yep, It’s Black History Month February 20, 2008
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A melee broke out Monday at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center as offenders threw chairs, destroyed copy machines and flipped bookshelves, causing minor injuries to 16 youths and 10 staffers.
The 13-minute brawl started during a Black History Month presentation in the chapel when one boy tackled another, said Earl Dunlap, transitional administrator at the embattled detention center on Chicago’s West Side.
A third boy, seeing an opportunity to cause a ruckus, stood up and shouted encouragement for others to start fighting and destroying property, Dunlap said.
Then chaos erupted among the 78 youths, fewer than 20 of them girls, in the chapel, Dunlap said. There were 17 staffers in the room when the melee broke out at about 9:10 a.m., he said. About 10 minutes later, an additional 16 staffers arrived to help break up the fighting, he said.
It looks like the BHM proceedings were successful. The “yoots” got so much self-esteem that they decided to start a small riot. Later on in this article, it tells of a judicial takeover of Crook County’s juvenile justice center because the ACLU complained about “mistreatment of youths.” Maybe there was a good reason why they were “mistreated.”
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