Legal Process Beginning For High Schoolers

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The first of five high school protesters detained for days in Pennsylvania after a scuffle with a man who turned out to be the police chief entered a probationary program designed to spare him a criminal record. Three other Quakertown teens delayed their juvenile court hearings Friday, while a lawyer for the fifth wants the assault charges dropped entirely. That lawyer, Ettore “Ed” Angelo, calls the treatment of the teenagers “shameful.” They spent four to eight days in detention after the Feb. 20 protest and the past month on house arrest. The police chief remains on medical leave and under investigation.