Parents, teachers. School leaders. They are all stepping in try to stop these racial tensions. Lets get out to Washington Township and steve keeley, steve. Reporter well, text on wednesday led to a brawl right inside of the doors of the school hallway, yesterday, in the morning, which led to suspensions in the afternoon and then an emergency meeting for parents, the public and even the police last night. So what will happen friday . Well, police themselves had to put out notice right on the Washington Township Police Facebook page, to say, hey, we will ease the tensions and any fears by telling you that School Officers will be highly visible for remainder of the week and probably after and wrote quote we can confidently dispel rumors a gun was brought to school here at the high school. It has been brought to the administrations attention that there are racial slurs especially on social media from other students, not necessarily against the student, but toward another race. At first we
Allentown. And, 59 degrees, plenty of sunshine to take to us a high of 74 later on. That is your Weather Authority forecast, seven day is coming up but at 5 01 it is time to check traffic with a look at road work. It is on the schuylkill westbound on off ramp to conshohocken, it looks like they will pick this up soon, but neff not done so yet. Usually around 5 00 they do that and let traffic flow as smoothly as it will. We will look at road work on i95 in both directions between betsy ross, aramingo exit and girard. Arrow on the northbound side they are still working. We have route 42 and creek road a little bit more volume then last time we checked friday morning is underway, guys, on the road. Thanks, sue. Lets get to this developing story because there was a racially charged text message from one High School Student to another that is now affected an entire community, in south jersey, this students , parents, teachers and School Leaders are all taking action over this one right now.
One happened in washington townsh township. Katie is showing us why racial tensions are running high and how students are making a statement about it. They are. Lets begin with what happened in coatsville. Earlier this week we told you how High School Students there posed for picture with racist imagery. It had leaders reacting pretty harshly. This morning students held a silent show of unity. They could be seen standing arm in arm in the football staid up. It was in response to pictures of their classmates posing carvings of a swletters kkk. Amid racial tensions running high a peaceful protest was held after a brawl erupted earlier in the week. And thats video of the brawl. It happened after students confronted classmates they say texted racial slurs and hateful language. Dozens of students held a sitin yesterday. Students told us what was in those hateful text messages. Saying we are going to bring the kkk back and all of the black people in our school are monkeys and they belong bac
Fans, philly fans were going crazy, chanting defense and of course trust the process. And if you brought it there i cannot imagine how loud this roar will be here tonight. When you look out on the floor and you see a healthy joel embiid, Markelle Fultz and ben simmons you just want to pin much yourself right now after i get myself up off the floor and stop crying they are tears of joy i swear. It is exciting. We have the young core. We have been talking about this for four years. It is here, foundation is built and we are going to the moon. Brett brown seems to be so ready for this season to start i think he is too with this roster. He and Brian Colangelo have done a marvelous job building this culture and putting this Team Together and getting us started. Is there Something Special coming here. You cannot stop this freight train. Thank you very much, thanks for having me. Ukee, back to you in the studio. Leslie, scott, thanks very much. Chester County High School Community Comes toget
Today remain silent on what they call a vital issue. Im a minority as myself. So this sort of relates to me. Reporter the students took the racist remarks personally. We have to make a difference as people. You know, incidents like this shouldnt happen. They shouldnt have hate towards someone because of the pigment of their skin. Reporter the School District admits there is a problem, citing other past racial issues with students. But the majority is now stepping in. Change something thats been a problem and you know, to have a proactive approach to solve it and make it better so Something Like this wont happen in the future. Reporter determined today show acceptance a. We care about what happened and what those kids did didnt represent the rest of us. Reporter im told the students involved have been disciplined. We did speak to the district about this issue. Coming up at 6 00 youll hear from them and why they say it will never happen again. They were tossing things and yelling. New vi