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On the morning of Sept. 13, parents rushed to the Public Policy Charter School in South LA’s Exposition Park neighborhood after getting frantic calls from their kids. The students were told there would be no class that day.

“My daughter did call me while I was at work and informed me that some people, she didn’t specify if it was staff or the board or anybody. She just said ‘some people came in cursing at us and they pushed and shoved two kids’,” said parent Tina Trujillo.