yes, he was a basketball player.
the guy that got the beat down was talking about the pert's 14 year old sister.
you gots to talk to yo kids when they get 17 and 18 and tell them you hit on someone you might jest go to jail son.
seriously, this is just another step in our community in the wrong direction. the slop is slippery my friend and you might fall down the hill if you aren't careful

Will someone wake up the Fayette County Board of Education?
Me thinks its to late for that, their starting to get stiff and bloated.

Obama's weapon of Choice!

America, the last I heard we could name our children as many names as a mother and/or father wanted to. What does that have to do with the fighting. As many people would love the chance to tell you, Darius was defending his 13 year old sister's honor. The 18 year was saying things about her, that shouldn't have been said. So lets hope families still are loyal and defend each other. I do not agree with fighting on school grounds and Darius should be punished and will be. He wouldn't have punched the other guys lights out, had he shut up. But we all know teenagers do and say things when they shouldn't. Just like some hurtful adults do at times.

MORE excuses rather than accepting responsibility for those actions; PLEASE stop the hate and violence. By the way, if the victim was doing ANYTHING other than actually physically starting this fight/assault then Darius had NO excuse and NO reason to attack this person. Unless you condone this type of action just because someone else made statements he should not have. Do you beat your Wife/Husband if they make any statement you don’t like?

The kid does not have three last names. He only has one last name and 2 middle names.

Are you so sure he's not your baby?

I guess he was named after the three most likely Baby Daddies.

I'm with Spyglass.I sure am glad I was class of 79. When a kid could get into an after school scrap without S.W.A.T. and your dad would ask how you did. a teacher might ask one of the boy's to cut something with their pocket knife. Typically where I went to high school, In DeKalb county, if you screwed up too bad a coach would just kick your ass and it was over.
Of course we didn't shoot each other either...

I don't remember every little Highschool Scrap or bout with alchohol ending up in the local paper either.

Kids fight so what. This isn't news. When did we become such pansies? Who didn't get into a fight at one point when they were a teenager? And who didn't steel a bottle of booze out of dad's liquor cabinet? A couple kids got cought drinking in the park. So what? Take'em home given a stern talkin too and forget about.

Granted, Nelms never misses an opportunity for needless prosodic infloration. However, the point remains that Darius knocked a kid out cold.

You rendered others unconscious and got a stern talkin too then forgot about it?

Knocking another out is probably one toe over the line, wouldn't you say? Short of that bit, I agree: kids will be kids and such.

We did have school fights. They never ended with somone taken to the hospital.

Here is how it went down.

2 knuckleheads would start talking trash to each other

Then one would throw a punch

A teacher in the hall would grab both by the scruff of the neck and knock their heads together

They would be taken to the principals office and paddled

Their parents were called

When their fathers got home from work they got "it" again

For the rest of the school year the teachers didn't even have to scold them for whispering in class.

It was a freakin miracle cure. Also becuase all of the other students saw what the consequences were for bad behavior no one else in our class tried to fight for the rest of the year.

Miracles and behavior changes used to happen with regular frequency "back in the day".

If this happened at Fayette County High then obviously Mr. Sennett has retired or softened up bit with age.

Even though paddleing worked please don't let positive results interfer with the pop psychology "if it feels good do it mentality". Please don't discipline these "angels" you might hurt their feelings.
Gee,.. the "time out" "don't punish them" or dish out any consequences thing seems to really be working for you people.

Suspension worthy? Yes. News worhty? Not so much.

Not much left of Los Citizen, though, if you stripped away the salacious, the stupid and the petty.

Suspension worthy? Yes. News worhty? Not so much.

Good thing the Citizen did not reveal the race of Darius Antonia Marcus Lollar. They may as well rename the school as South Fulton High School.

ROFLMAO over the number of names comments.