U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/a> policies when police approached them outside a bakery, about a half-mile from school.<\/p>\nSouders represents a 16-year-old boy who, he said, had his eyeglasses broken as he was knocked into a large planter by a uniformed officer during the scrum. The boy spent the weekend in custody trying to get glass particles out of his eye, and was seen there by a nurse before his father took him to a hospital Tuesday after his release, Souders said.<\/p>\n
High school administrators had met with the student protesters about the planned walkout, but then withdrew permission on Friday morning out of safety concerns, the acting superintendent said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Many in the group are students of color, and some are the children of immigrants, their lawyers said. Both Quakertown, with about 9,300 residents, and the high school, with about 1,650 students, are predominantly white. <\/p>\n
According to defense lawyers, the students were taunted along the route by another group of students yelling insults, including racial epithets, at them.<\/p>\n
\u201cThroughout the protest, the police were following from a distance,\u201d Souders said. \u201cProbably in hindsight, they should have interceded between the protesters and counterprotesters. They were saying really awful things to get the kids riled up.\u201d<\/p>\n
His client, a high school junior who works two restaurant jobs, was released on home confinement with an ankle monitor, he said. He can leave home for school, work, church and other approved activities.<\/p>\n
As juveniles, the teens have a right to an adjudication hearing within 30 days \u2014 or 10 days if they are in custody. However, the lawyers expect to seek more time to gather video and other evidence in the case.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was an abomination of (police) escalation when it should have been a teaching moment for de-escalation,\u201d said lawyer Ettore \u201cEd\u201d Angelo, who represents another 15-year-old girl charged and released in the case. <\/p>\n
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