Mehlville High School students in south St. Louis County held a walk-out protest today for robber Mike Brown.
The students walked out of the school—
Live at mehlville .. pic.twitter.com/urMEVxtuPu
— el✌️isamehinovic (@ViisaMasterCard) December 3, 2014
Mehlville is located in South St. Louis County which is almost entirely white. The school participates in the voluntary interdistrict choice corporation which assists in transferring African-American students from the city to the school for their education.
Not everyone was supporting the protesters.
“@NamesBrenden: With the St. Louis Mehlville highschool Protestors pic.twitter.com/p3tnxV7tYd” lmao
— Hayley Wabiszewski (@hwabi_) December 3, 2014
Glad to see hoodrats protesting at Mehlville #NationalSchoolOfCharacter
— Oleg Vadimovich (@JuLiAnDoMo1) December 3, 2014
Police are now outside the school.
Students did some sort of sit-in & then walked out of Mehlville high school. Sister drove by said police & students are outside.
— Cryssy Nelson (@cryssyinstl) December 3, 2014
Lots of rumors on social media about the protest:
Protesters at mehlville getting locked out of school hahaha
— Megan Warren (@meganwarren__) December 3, 2014
Just received this in email: Just heard of a big fight at Mehlville Senior High between Bosnians and blacks.
(A Bosnian man was
UPDATE: The news about a fight came from one of the students.
UPDATE: From a parent – there was a large fight.
UPDATE: KSDK said the protest was peaceful and about 25 students walked out of the school.
