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Official Police Report of Hoxton Park High School Muslim Riot and aftermath
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Green Valley police station surrounded after confrontation over 'Facebook slurs'
Chelsea White and Rosemary Lentini
The Daily Telegraph
March 03, 2011 1:30PM
A CONFRONTATION between parents and police following racial slurs allegedly posted on a high school student's Facebook page descended into a police station being put into lockdown yesterday.
The incident began outside Hoxton Park High School, after the school closed yesterday.
Police were forced to use capsicum spray on some of the adults involved as stunned students watched on.
Six men and women aged between 26 and 50 were arrested.
Some of those involved said the incident began when a Muslim student was attacked by a mob of year 9 school girls.
The alleged victim of the mob attack claimed she was bashed by about 10 "Australian girls" at the school and the attack was racially motivated.
"I don't know why they chose me. I'm feeling really hurt and worried about what happened," she said.
She said the attack followed anti-Islamic slurs allegedly made on a fellow student's Facebook page.
Parents said this was not the first time such attacks had occurred, and some gathered at the school following the alleged attack on the girl.
The group of arrested people was taken to Green Valley police station.
But rumours then spread, also on Facebook, suggesting the fight was racially motivated and that police had removed the veil of a Muslim woman during the protest that followed.
An angry mob descended on the police station, with a witness saying hundreds of youths threw projectiles at officers.
The police helicopter, dog squad and riot officers were believed to have been called in. Police declined to comment on the alleged attack.
Brawl outside school sparks mob protest
Daily Telegraph
March 03, 2011 10:44AM
A CROWD descended on a southwestern Sydney police station after six people were arrested for fighting outside a high school.
Six men and women, aged from 26 to 50, were arrested outside Hoxton Park High School at Hinchinbrook about 3pm yesterday and charged
with various offences including affray.
Police used capsicum spray on the group and a number of officers were injured during the confrontation.
Hours later, about 8pm, a group of about 40 supporters entered Green Valley police station where the men and women were being held.
The supporters were told to leave when they became agitated and abusive.
The group then congregated outside the station but left a short time later.
The six arrested people have been granted bail and are due to appear at Liverpool Local Court on April 8.
Emotions run high as playground fight leads to parents brawl and invasion of police station
SMH
Stephanie Gardiner
March 3, 2011 - 9:59AM
A group of 40 "emotional" people crowded into a Sydney police station after officers arrested six people over a fight outside a high school
about a playground dispute, police say.
Police said they were forced to use capsicum spray on the group outside Hoxton Park High School on Wilson Road, Hinchinbrook yesterday
afternoon.
Some officers were allegedly injured in the confrontation and six men and women, aged between 26 and 50, were arrested and taken to Green
Valley police station.
A large group of people later came into the police station, upset over the arrests, police said.
Chief Inspector Darrin Wilson said the scuffle outside the high school was over an earlier fight between students in the playground.
''That was a result of parents being unhappy with their daughter being assaulted in school grounds earlier in the day,'' he said.
He said the group were emotional, not angry.
"I guess it's just like any group of people, your family and friends get arrested, you become emotional," he said. "They took offence to us
arresting them."
Chief Inspector Wilson could not confirm reports a Muslim woman's veil had been ripped off by officers outside the high school.
"I've heard those rumours and I can't confirm them. Police were the victims in this and they acted accordingly."
The group were asked to leave the station, but gathered outside before finally leaving.
The six people arrested outside the school were charged with offences including affray, intimidation, assault police, resist arrest and
offensive language.
They were bailed and will appear in Liverpool Local Court on April 8.
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