Students allege school roundup was illegal, targeted minorities
| Three high school students and their parents filed suit Thursday against Union City school officials and police, alleging they illegally rounded up, questioned, photographed and searched students as part of an apparent gang sweep. About 60 mostly Hispanic and Asian students were detained by school officials and police at James Logan High School last year on Feb. 22, according to the suit filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California on behalf of the students. "They have to stop harassing these children. They cannot assume that everybody is gang affiliated," said Angela Munoz, whose son, Victor, was questioned that day. "Just because they're students doesn't mean they can go and take their rights away. If he can't sit and eat lunch with friends, what can the kids do?" |
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