Students damage cars, attack police during gun control protest (PHOTOS)

By Chris Eger

Authorities said five teens were taken into custody on a variety of charges that included battery on an officer and resisting arrest. (Photos: SPD)
Police in one California town said that some among the high schoolers in a number of student-led protests against gun violence were not peaceful.
The Stockton Police Department on Friday said five teens were taken into custody on a variety of charges that included battery on an officer and resisting arrest. One, Verania Cervantes, 18, was booked into the San Joaquin County Jail, while the others, juveniles, were released to their parents. In one incident, a number of teens caught jumping a fence at a closed school fought with an officer and took his baton.
“While the majority of the students were peaceful today, we don’t condone the violence which was committed by a small handful of students,” said Stockton Police Department’s Public Information Officer Joe Silva. “It’s unacceptable to batter a police officer and especially to take an officer’s baton.”
Photos posted by the agency showed both police and private vehicles with windows smashed and sheet metal dented.

One image shows the imprint of a shoe sole on an officer’s uniform.

SPD noted a 16- or 17-year-old, believed to be

Source: Guns.com