In the wake of a post-basketball game "near-riot" that attracted 300 students, officials plan to send letter home to parents and to hold programs to help educate students.
Plainfield police and school district officials met Wednesday to work on a plan that might forestall another near-riot situation like the one that broke out at McDonald’s Tuesday night following a Plainfield North-Plainfield East high school basketball game. The first course of action will be to send a letter home to the parents of all high school students, Plainfield School District 202 spokesman Tom Hernandez said. “High school rivalries are not a bad thing, but they have their place,” Hernandez said. “Our primary concern is student safety and community safety, and that many people in one location is not safe. We have to make sure our students are safe, and that extends to after-school events, which we see as an extension of the school …
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Police estimate that nearly 300 students filled the restaurant and parking lot Tuesday night in a clash that led to two arrests.
More than 300 high school students created a "near riot situation" at a Route 59 McDonald's Tuesday night following a rivalry basketball game between Plainfield East and Plainfield North. Plainfield Sgt. Mike Fisher described an out-of-control scene in which chanting students were packed shoulder-to-shoulder inside the restaurant at 12501 S. Route 59, just north of 127th Street, and took over the adjoining parking lot. "If I had to give a rough guesstimate, I'd say there were at least 150 kids inside," Fisher said. "I couldn't get through to get to the crowd without having to push people aside." Police took two Plainfield North students into custody on charges of disorderly conduct, which prompted the crowd to break up, he said. One …
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Debra
9:48 am on Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Having read all the above comments, I first want to say "thank you" to the Plainfield Police Department for their efforts in disbursing the crowd before a potentially volatile situation occurred, and reporter, Karen Sorenson for reporting the story, and also for the PPD and Dist. 202 School Officials for meeting and mapping out a plan to deal with this situation. As a retired A.P. of a … more ›