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Is School Fighting Getting Out of Control?
Security is tight at a Minneapolis High School today after a brawl erupted during lunch on Thursday.
Thursday afternoon, the lunchroom at Minneapolis' South High School descended into pandemonium as scores of students—as many as 300, by some accounts—started brawling. Police eventually used pepper spray to disperse the crowds. The fight seems to have been sparked when students jumped into a physical confrontation between two of their classmates. The battle occurred against a backdrop of tension between the school's Somali and African-American communities. Minneapolis schools spokesperson Stan Alleyne said he thinks a certain amount of fighting is par for the course. "In a high school, any high school in America, there are going to be fights from time to time," Alleyne said, according to MPR on Thursday. "South High is a safe school. Did …
