Importantly: they were attacked by the police chief, who wasn’t wearing a uniform, and spent the better part of a week in jail already over it.
McElree, the police chief, who was dressed in plain clothes, grabbed a teenage boy and placed a teenage girl in a chokehold, they said, prompting other students to intervene and a larger scuffle to break out.
He knew exactly how he wanted to act and he did it on purpose. This was not a mistake; this was not stupidity; this was evil.