Fight At Burbank High! 6 Arested!

Published: Saturday, March 21, 2009, Burbank Leader

Six Burbank High School students were arrested last week in connection with starting a fight that involved more than 200 teens in the campus’ quad area, police said. The fight broke out at 12:44 p.m. March 13 on the campus between Latino and white students against Armenian students, Burbank Police Sgt. Robert Quesada said. A student pushed a school administrator to the ground during the fight and the administrator was taken to Providence St. Joseph’s Medical Center, where she was treated for cervical and shoulder strain, he said. When police went to the school, they saw students yelling and screaming at each other, but they were not fighting, Quesada said. Police got the students to calm down and some students involved in the fight were taken to the school’s administrative office, he said. Six students, whose names were not released because they are minors, were arrested in connection with fighting on school grounds. One of the six students was also arrested on suspicion of assaulting the school administrator, Quesada said. They were cited and released to their parents, he said.


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The Burbank Unified School District Board of Education heard clarifying comments from administrators about a fight at Burbank High School that drew several police units to the site. The fight was not racially motivated and did not escalate into a " riot," as had been rumored among the community, administrators said.