PROVIDENCE -- The police say that locally made rap videos incited a brawl that involved hundreds of teens and injured a police officer near the Juanita Sanchez Educational Complex last Thursday afternoon.
Ironically, social media also led to arrests, after some teens recorded the fights on their cell phones and posted the videos onto Facebook, said Sgt. Michael Wheeler.
Other students showed the videos to administrators and police, who were able to identify several assailants, said Wheeler.
So far, one adult and nine teens have been charged in the fights. School Resource Officer Wayne Marshall fractured his ribs while arresting a 14-year-old Alvarez High School boy suspected of instigating the fight, said Wheeler. The other teens were from Sanchez, Central and Mount Pleasant high schools.