By Grace O’Halloran
OCTOBER 22, 2022
A B-CC student allegedly “jumped” a Whitman senior in downtown Bethesda after last night’s football game between the rival schools, sparking a series of brawls that involved at least eight students and a Montgomery County Police officer.
At approximately 7:49 p.m., a B-CC senior struck a Whitman senior from behind on a sidewalk outside the Chipotle on Old Georgetown Road, according to the Whitman student and a bystander. Then, at least eight other students pushed the Whitman student to the ground and proceeded to punch, kick and curse at them, the student said.
In 2019, The Black & White reported on a pattern of increasingly violent altercations outside the Bethesda Chipotle in the hours following football games between the two schools. After police removed 12 students from Whitman’s homecoming game due to aggressive behavior, Whitman and B-CC administrators announced on Monday that this year’s Battle of Bethesda would take place an hour and a half earlier than in previous years.
Football player Jacob Gaum, a junior, said that the fight didn’t shock him and he believes that the altercations will remain popular after intense games...
This was OFF school property! Not under the purview of MCPS. Your headline implies that off-campus fights should have ended just because new policies were put in place for safety and security concerns at the games.
ReplyDeleteThe headline is from the Whitman High School student newspaper.
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