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High school students protesting ICE remain jailed days after police assault in Pennsylvania
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technocrit lemmy.dbzer0.com technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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At least five high school students in Quakertown, located in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, have now been held in police custody for more than 72 hours following last Friday’s anti-ICE protest. As of this writing, authorities have not publicly clarified how many students remain detained, what specific charges they face, or why juveniles are being held for this length of time.

Their alleged offense: defending themselves after a police chief, not in uniform, physically assaulted students. The police assault has provoked mass outrage in the community and throughout the country. A Change.org petition demanding the resignation of Quakertown Police Chief Scott McElree, who was captured on video choking a young female student, has exceeded 7,800 signatures as of this writing.

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partial_accumen lemmy.world partial_accumen@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-15
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Their alleged offense: defending themselves after a police chief, not in uniform, physically assaulted students. The police assault has provoked mass outrage in the community and throughout the country.

This wasn't ICE agents cracking down. It was the out-of-uniform city police chief himself physically choking a student.

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imrighthere lemmy.ca imrighthere@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-03-27
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What an absolutely worthless country.

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