9 arrested after fight at Jersey City high school
Jersey City NJ March 7 2019 Police responded twice to Snyder High School in Jersey City on Wednesday, first on a report of a parent punching the school’s principal and then to stop a fight that broke out among students after dismissal.
The later fracas led to a three-car collision involving police headed to the Bergen Avenue school, a city official said. Police officers citywide were sent to the school to respond, according to law enforcement sources.
A spokeswoman for the Jersey City Public Schools declined to comment.
The first incident happened at about noon, when two female students had a verbal altercation that led the principal to send them home early, according to a memo the school spokeswoman sent Board of Education members.
While the girls were being picked up — one by her mother, one by her grandmother — one of the girls attacked the other, BOE President Sudhan Thomas told The Jersey Journal. The principal, Yvonne Waller, attempted to stop the attack and the parent punched her, the memo says.
Police arrested the parent and the girl, the memo says.
At 3 p.m. cops returned to the school when the big fight broke out and continued into the surrounding neighborhood, city spokeswoman Kimberly Wallace-Scalcione said. A police officer sustained a minor injury while responding to the chaos, but no other injuries were reported, Wallace-Scalcione said.
That fight was related to one yesterday that occurred on Martin Luther King Drive, according to Thomas.
The name and age of the mom who was arrested was not immediately available, Wallace-Scalcione said.
No one was injured in the motor vehicle collision involving the responding officers, she said.
“We are obviously very concerned about these multiple but unrelated incidents around the Snyder ecosystem today,” Thomas told The Jersey Journal.
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