Is it a regular thing for us? No, it's not. But it's something we have to deal with.

The officer first attempted to verbally stop the fight and then tried to physically separate them. The officer was physically struck. To ensure the combatants' safety as well as his own safety, the officer used the means necessary.

We can understand their (parents') concern. But based on what we were dealing with, school was the safest place they could have been.

Our primary goal was to prevent it (the protest). If we couldn't do that, the next job was to at least make sure it was peaceful.

He put us on his back today -- getting rebounds, playing great defense and just being a great leader out there.

Continuing to play the victim is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Blaming others for your station in life will indeed make you a victim but the perpetrator will be your own self, not life or those around you.