Anonymous wrote:The suburbs don't solve it all. There have been numerous fights between McLean and Langley after football or basketball games over the years. They just don't make the news for some reason.

I am not surprised that this made the news. one thing is a fight in an open area where presumably there are mostly kids and their families, one thing is a brawl involving a lot of teeagers at 4pm on a Friday afternoon, just in rush hour, in one of the busiest metro stations. a fight is never a nice thing, but the one a GP was also potentially very dangerous (narrow and limited escape ways, people can fall on the tracks or there can be a stampede for the escalator). I live and work in DC, I could not care less about a fight between Mclean and Langley, but a large brawl in a metro station downtown during rush hour bothers me a lot, I sometimes have my 6yr old kid with me at Metro center, a colleague takes the metro daily with her baby, so I am not surprised this made the news.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain to me why all this crap always happens at the china town metro.

Let's walk that one through. Both schools are on the red line, Wilson at Tenleytown, McKinley at NoMa. The brawlers, however, very likely don't live on the red line. They're changing trains somewhere, which is either Gallery Place or Metrocenter. Right there we've narrowed it down to two likely stops.

It happens there because that is a popular place for teens to hang out in addition to being on the converging metro lines.

Anonymous wrote:Horrible, and sad to think what these brawling thugs progress to later:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/he-was-almost-unrecognizable-beating-victims-wife-testifies/2013/04/30/59ee8078-b1a6-11e2-bbf2-a6f9e9d79e19_story.html

No way will I send a child of mine to a DC public high school.

My kid was safe in her DC public high school. It was when she went to private school that she was sexually assaulted. She also got drugs and alcohol from her addicted rich friends. (Hmmm, at least two heroin addicts that I knew of. I'm sure there were more.)

You folks do what you want but upper middle class white kids are pretty good at hurting each other in very serious ways and getting away with it. Your kid has a lot more to fear from his/her rich white friends than from the average working class/poor black kid at DCPS. But I know that it's even pointless to raise this in this forum when the fear has gripped everyone by the throat.

I occasionally exit at Tenleytown as part of my morning commute and the Wilson kids who congregate at some of the exits and right outside the exits have serious behavior problems. Unbelievably foul language, yelling for no reason, pushing, jumping turnstiles, just all sorts of unnecessary disgusting and inappropriate behavior. It's sad. I'm always happy when they station a cop around there.

If you're putting Wilson and McKinley in the same league with McLean and Langley HS, you need to sell some of what you're smoking

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Anonymous wrote:How convenient that everyone ignored 17:44. I wonder why.

Maybe because the kids at Langley and McLean trash talk each other at a local McDonald's, and the Wilson and McKinley kids try to beat the crap out of each other at a Metro station during rush hour. If there were footage of NoVa or MoCo kids brawling like this, it would make the news.

Hmm, you are such a liar. They have had all out brawls between McLean and Langley students.

Not either of the PPs, but it seems likely that the location is the reason it makes the news. If they were brawling at the Anacostia metro stop, do you think anyone would care? No. If AA kids beating the hell out of each other made news, maybe it wouldn't happen so often. Who knows? The only reason it's interesting is because thousands of commuters and tourists could witness it or be collateral damage.

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain to me why all this crap always happens at the china town metro.

Let's walk that one through. Both schools are on the red line, Wilson at Tenleytown, McKinley at NoMa. The brawlers, however, very likely don't live on the red line. They're changing trains somewhere, which is either Gallery Place or Metrocenter. Right there we've narrowed it down to two likely stops.

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Anonymous wrote:How convenient that everyone ignored 17:44. I wonder why.

Maybe because the kids at Langley and McLean trash talk each other at a local McDonald's, and the Wilson and McKinley kids try to beat the crap out of each other at a Metro station during rush hour. If there were footage of NoVa or MoCo kids brawling like this, it would make the news.

Hmm, you are such a liar. They have had all out brawls between McLean and Langley students.

Do they pummel each other with their calculators? I think the definition of brawl in McLean is a tiny bit different than one in DC.

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Anonymous wrote:How convenient that everyone ignored 17:44. I wonder why.

Maybe because the kids at Langley and McLean trash talk each other at a local McDonald's, and the Wilson and McKinley kids try to beat the crap out of each other at a Metro station during rush hour. If there were footage of NoVa or MoCo kids brawling like this, it would make the news.

Hmm, you are such a liar. They have had all out brawls between McLean and Langley students.

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Anonymous wrote:Horrible, and sad to think what these brawling thugs progress to later:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/he-was-almost-unrecognizable-beating-victims-wife-testifies/2013/04/30/59ee8078-b1a6-11e2-bbf2-a6f9e9d79e19_story.html

No way will I send a child of mine to a DC public high school.

So horrible. Please tell me these kids are the product of Wilson.

*aren't

It has nothing to do with the high school they went to but every thing else that's happened before that point - starting in utero. IMO by the time kids get to high school the path is pretty much set.

it's to annoy those of us who live downtown

Can someone explain to me why all this crap always happens at the china town metro.

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Anonymous wrote:The suburbs don't solve it all. There have been numerous fights between McLean and Langley after football or basketball games over the years. They just don't make the news for some reason.

They don't?

http://mclean.patch.com/articles/accounts-differ-on-what-happened-at-mcdonald-s-between-police-students

http://mclean.patch.com/articles/five-juveniles-arrested-for-public-drunkenness-following-friday-s-mclean-langley-game

Great examples because we all read the local McLean paper.

No video for one thing. Also sounds like the bigger issue is how much force was used by the police. The students while in large numbers and not following orders to disperse were not actually engaging in a brawl like the students in the Metro incident.

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Anonymous wrote:The suburbs don't solve it all. There have been numerous fights between McLean and Langley after football or basketball games over the years. They just don't make the news for some reason.

They don't?

http://mclean.patch.com/articles/accounts-differ-on-what-happened-at-mcdonald-s-between-police-students

http://mclean.patch.com/articles/five-juveniles-arrested-for-public-drunkenness-following-friday-s-mclean-langley-game

Great examples because we all read the local McLean paper.

Anonymous wrote:If you equate your dog to school children, then you've should've gotten spayed.

I guess the black kids at Wilson got tired of beating up the white kids at Wilson. That's news worthy I think because Wilson was a horror for white kids they suffered in silence.

This Wilson and McKinley brawl stemmed from twitter and instagram trash talking.

It is technology at its all time worst. Yet, don't think this is a new fad, school fights are happening all over this city.

Instagram trash talking? What, did one kid make another kid look like a washed-out Polaroid?