PASADENA - Following a racially charged brawl among students at John Muir High School, community members plan to gather around the school today in a show of peace.
Concerned Community Volunteers Inc. is hosting "Hands in Hands" from 10 a.m. to noon, hoping to form a human chain around the school.
"We are coming together as a community to protect the students," said Millie Lee, a local resident and activist spearheading the effort. "Anyone who has a passion for Muir and wants to see the best for Muir will be involved."
Lee hopes the event will bring attention to the violence in northwest Pasadena that has claimed the lives of five Muir students in the last five years.
Most recently, Brandon Jackson, a Muir student, was killed in Altadena in February.
She also hopes to call attention to the racial tensions festering between blacks and Latinos in northwest Pasadena, Lee said.
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