ssault Over Immigration Poster Refuted
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Apr 10, 2008 1:27 AM (8 hrs ago) By PAUL J. WEBER, AP

DALLAS (Map, News) - An eighth-grader lied when she claimed a mob of angry students assaulted her for making a poster that read, "If you love our nation, stop illegal immigration," school administrators in Texas say.

Surveillance cameras at Athens Middle School show the 13-year-old student purposefully making scratch marks on her face and arms in a hallway after a classmate took her poster in a "snatch-and-grab" style, school superintendent Fred Hayes said Wednesday.

The student had told administrators she was clawed and hit after about 20 students, livid over the poster message she chose for a class project, swarmed around her and wrested away the sign.

Hayes said the school is pursuing misdemeanor criminal charges against the girl for making a false report.
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The girl's parents apologized for their daughter in a written statement. They did not return requests for comment.

"I see that my daughter was not assaulted and put the marks on her body," Shera Bowers, the girl's mother, wrote.

J.R. Bowers, the girl's father, wrote in the statement that he agreed with the charges expected to be filed against his daughter.

The alleged scuffle led to the suspension of three Hispanic students.

The students returned to class Wednesday, but Hayes said their punishment remained appropriate because they were involved in taking the poster. Hayes said he apologized to the parents of the suspended students because they were "cast in a negative light."

News of the alleged attack - and the suspension of the three Hispanic students - touched off a flurry of comments on the Internet and to the Athens school district. Hayes said the district received messages from people well outside Athens, a city of 12,000 about 70 miles south of Dallas. He described some of the messages as "irrational."

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It makes your stomach turn.

I know, huh? What irks me is that this kinds of outcomes is what is really EXPECTED to be as a status quo since the onset of the DHS-launch against immigrants. They are going to instigate riots and rage and then they are gonna say "you see" "I told you so"-"LOCK EM' ALL UP!" It makes me entirely infuriated. When are WE RAZAS gonna step up? No wait I have the answer...not anytime soon.
peace carnal.

MiszJoker602 wrote:ok what does IMO mean?


and this is some stupid ish... that girl is dumb and for tyring to say all that, she DESERVES to get her ass beat..

[font=Comic Sans MS]IMO - In my opinion

Now the little mocosa deserves to get her ass beat.[/font]

Nobody ever said the war on illegal immigration was gonna be pretty.