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News Capital City Baton Rouge’s CAPITALCAPITAL CITYCITY Community Newspaper Cell Phones Record ViolenceStudents, Teachers Secretly in Recorded Schools Cell Phone Videos That Capture Violence in EBR Schools. See Page 2 NEWSNEWS® Thursday, June 13, 2013 • Vol. 22, No. 12 • 16 Pages • Serving Baton Rouge • www.capitalcitynews.us • 225-261-5055 Coach Miles Goes ‘Over the Edge’ Key Issues: Education, Crime Serious Debate On Proposal To Incorporate Southeast BR Only Voters Decide SE Backers Say Issue of Whether to Create Municipality La. Constitution SOUTHEAST — The battle to create May Not Need a new community school system in the southeast part of East Baton To Be Amended Rouge Parish is about to take on a SOUTHEAST — Supporters of entirely new dimension. the proposed Southeast Ba- Now supporters of the new ton Rouge Community School district say they are considering District said Wednesday the launching a drive to incorporate recently-completed legislative Southeast Baton Rouge into a new session was far more successful municipality. than most people realize. Norman Browning, chairman of Norman Browning, chair- LSU coach Les Miles rappelled off One American Place to promote adoption. Local Schools for Local Children, man of Local Schools for Lo- said there are at least three reasons cal Children, said the passage to form a new municipality: of SB 199 has placed the new LSU Coach Says It’s Time to Get • Facilitate creation of the school district in the Louisi- Southeast school district ana Revised Statutes. “That is Serious about Adoption of Kids • Allow Southeast residents to done. We passed the legislation through four committee hear- BATON ROUGE control planning and zoning within — The Louisiana Family Forum has set a goal of the school district, and ings and both houses of the leg- Family Forum says more than helping at least 100 of those chil- • Serve as a bulwark against islature. We don’t have to do 100,000 children are available for dren to find a family to permanent- crime in the City of Baton Rouge. that again. Now we can focus adoption in the United States, in- ly call their own. LSU coach Les Browning said no decision has on passage of the constitutional cluding many with special needs. Miles went “over the edge” to get been made but that the topic will amendment, but that’s not our Here in Louisiana, more than 500 people thinking about adoption. begin to be discussed publicly at a only option.” Browning said children could be adopted, and the See LES MILES on Page 4 See WILL on Page 16 See SE BR on Page 16 GOP Nabs ex-General Counsel of Democratic Party Key Democrats Switch to Republican Party Central’s No. 2 Man, State Senator Say ‘Democrats Left Us’ BATON ROUGE — Over the past week, three key Democratic of- ficials have announced they are switching to Republican. Two of them are black conservatives. State Sen. Elbert Guillory of Opelousas announced his change Jenkins of party registration at a national Woody conference of black conservative leaders held in Baton Rouge last by week. Guillory became the first Photo black Republican in the Louisiana BLACK, CONSERVATIVE, AND NOW REPUBLICAN — Republican parish official Dr. Trey Thomas (left) and state GOP chair- Legislature since Reconstruction. man Roger Villere (center) welcomed two black conservative Democrats, Central Mayor Pro-Tem Ralph Washington (2nd) and Sen. See BLACK on Page 8 Elbert Guillory (4th), to the Republican Party, along with former Louisiana Democratic Party general counsel Randy Piedrahita (5th). 2 CITY NEWS Thursday, June 13, 2013 COMMUNITY PRESS, LLC CAPITAL CITY NEWS CENTRAL CITY NEWS Vol. 22 • No. 12 & The Leader Vol. 16 • No. 12, No. 346 910 North Foster Drive Post Office Box 1 Baton Rouge, LA 70806 Greenwell Springs, LA 70739 Phone (225) 261-5055 • FAX 261-5022 • Entire contents © 2013 Email stories and photos to [email protected] or [email protected] Published every other Thursday from January to August and every Thursday from September to December by Community Press, LLC The Leader was founded April 30, 1998, and the Central City News was founde April 21, 2005. They merged May 4, 2006. Capital City News is a continuation of the South Baton Rouge Journal, which went on hiatus in 2008 during its 20th year of publication. The Cap- ital City News resumed publication of the Journal with Vol. 21, No. 1 on Aug. 16, 2012. Community Press also publishes the Central Community Directory and other publicatons. Editor & Publisher Woody Jenkins Business Manager Candi Lee Graphic Artist Terrie Palmer Business Specialist Jolice Provost Member, National Newspaper Association & Louisiana Press Association Deadline for news and advertising: 5 p.m. Mondays $40 a year by subscription in advance • $50 a year outside East Baton Rouge ARE YOU CALLED TO ADOPT A CHILD? — The Louisiana Family Forum is trying to help 100 Louisiana children, including many with special needs, find a permanent fam- Country Living in the City ily to love and care for them. Interested? Go to www.lafamilyforum.org. Dramatic Videos Secretly Recorded in EBR Schools By Teachers, Students Document Extent of Violence The film is a compilation of and now.” The East Baton Rouge East Middle School that could not No One Can View videos secretly recorded by pub- Parish school system responded be contained by a Sheriff’s depu- lic school teachers and students, that it was an isolated incident. ty who had to call for more units. as well as local TV news reports. • A roaring brawl at Woodlawn The incident involved a number This Documentary Most of the videos were recorded High School featuring a muscular of students and in May 2013. student stripped to the waist who school staff. Mul- Without Realizing The teachers risked their jobs by was menacing scores of other stu- tiple units were recording the incidents and releas- dents on the school grounds. required to get We Have Problem ing the videos to the public. • Multiple fights going on in control of the Video clips include the Belaire High School gym with situation. Eight • The beating of a child on an screaming and fists swinging. middle school stu- Woody Jenkins East Baton Rouge Parish school Editor • A school bus driver who raped dents were de- bus. A parent was outraged by a a Woodlawn High School special tained and hand- video of the incident which showed BATON ROUGE needs student. cuffed. Woody Jenkins — Supporters of the her child being beaten senseless • A beating in the halls of Wood- On May 3, proposed Southeast Baton Rouge for minutes with no assistance. lawn High School. 2013, there were six separate fights Community School System have The bus failed to stop, and the in- • A five-year-old child left aban- reported at Woodlawn High. released a dramatic video that doc- cident was not reported to law en- doned on a parish school bus for On May 13, 2013, a fight at uments violence and other illegal forcement as required by law. The two hours. His mother said it was South East Middle led to the report activities in public schools such as parent said, “I am furious and con- no accident of a student with a gun. Woodlawn, Broadmoor, and Tara cerned that students are not safe in • A brawl at Tara High School, The video says that for many High Schools. the school system. This has to stop as students watched and a teacher of the students attending public tried to intervene. schools in East Baton Rouge Par- • The rape of a 14-year-old by ish, this is the reality. an 18-year-old special needs stu- In an interview last week, a school dent in the school auditorium. employee reported that many of • The Broadmoor High lunch- the students at Woodlawn High are room engulfed in violence and bused into Southeast Baton Rouge fighting. from failing schools taken over • Attacks in the hallway at by the Recovery School District. Broadmoor High as a student was It is no wonder that the people pounded in the head. of Southeast Baton Rouge want • An attack on a student at their own school system. The East Woodlawn High School. Baton Rouge Parish school system • Another attack at Woodlawn is out of control and cannot main- High School as a teacher unsuc- tain order in the schools. cessfully tried to intervene. 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