[Jane13]

Some of my friends were involved in a fight last night.I say "Involved" because they didn'y want to have anything to do with it.

Last night I was at a choir concert at the highschool with my friend, and we see a big group of our friends rush out of the auditorium really worried. we followed them out, and one of our buddies starts telling us that there was a fight, and arrests were made in our group. I had no idea what was going on, but I heard a lot of names of my best friends. I'll call them KM, JK, MWS, and ECS for their privacy.

KM and I have been friends since first grade, and I was really worried, so I called her house around nine, and no one picked up the phone. Around ten she called and said she had just gotten home, and had been at the police station since seven.

She said that our group had been hanging out at the mall, and for no reason these black kids (i'm not intending to sound racist, a couple kids that were in our group, even that night, are black) about nine years old to fourteen decide they want to look tough and beat up a skinny white boy like my friend MWS.He didn't want anything to do with it, so our group is all trying to back off. They wouldn't leave them alone, so they decide to go outside, and our group had no intention to fight, but they start harrassing KM and threaten to **** her. The Mall cops come out and tell them to "Get the fuck off their property", so they leave.

Apparantly, these kids followed our group to the field across the street from the highschool. MWS's nose and lips were pretty busted and bloody, and people were attacking JK with rocks. They were still threatening KM, and now they were saying they had a gun. They didn't know if they did or not, but they didn't want to find out if they did. My friends, being the responsible people they are, still didn't want to get into anything- they were on a store's property, and these kkids were younger than they were. My buddies took a sprint to Dollar General to wash the blood off, and started to walk to the highschool, and the other kids still followed them.

JK and MWS were getting bloodied pretty badly, so finally, JK pushes the kid to the groud, starts yelling and scaring the crap out of him, MWS finally really starts fighting back, and KM sticks around because she doesn't want to abandon them.The kids back off a little, and the conversation whent something like this:

KM: Guys...
Bloodied, battered and tattered MWS and JK: What?
KM: PO-LICE. CAR-S.

The black kids split off running, and my buddies are calm, although battered and really messed up. Who do the cops go after first? The girl in the miniskirt with a nosering(KM), the skinny white boy in a trench coat(MWS), and the guy with spikey black hair and spikey jewelry(JK) (the latter of these are in a lot of pain and really bloody). JK might not have been caught, had it not been for the fact that he wanted to make sure that the one guy with the other group that wanted to keep the peace didn't get in trouble.

At the police station, they wrote down their stories, and the main ring-leader from the other group got off because he pulled the whole 'I'm young and easily influenced' bit. MWS had it bad, but JK had it worse. Apparantly, they got in a big mess because they "consented to fight". It doesn't freaking sound like they consented to fight to me!! Worse yet, the cops said "Well that's interesting. The other group had only the nicest things to say about you, and one of them even asked for this girl's [reffereing to KM] phone number." Did they read the story at all?! She was sexually harrassed by those freaks! Worse yet, the cops tol MWS and JK not to even try to fight their record (this would go on their permanant record). KM's dad is a lawyer, and he said, "You two know we're going to fight this, right?".

I'm so glad she called... I was so worried :cry:

It's morning now, and Carbondale is a small town, so eveyone's probably heard some version of the story...