“We were out there and there they come with their shouting and shaking their fists…We were just saying stay in school, learn English, you know? They didn’t like this.”
“They all lined up there and at the command of one of the girls they threw eggs all of a sudden…They did their damage and ran like rats.”
Joel and Eloise Gomez, after the couple exchanged words outside their house with some of the 300 or so students from Santa Barbara High School who were making their way back to campus, about one block away. The peaceful school-sanctioned protest march in support of illegal immigrants on April 18th turned ugly when students from Santa Barbara High pelted the home of the elderly couple with rocks and eggs. (For the full story click here.)