Importantly: they were attacked by the police chief, who wasn’t wearing a uniform, and spent the better part of a week in jail already over it.
McElree, the police chief, who was dressed in plain clothes, grabbed a teenage boy and placed a teenage girl in a chokehold, they said, prompting other students to intervene and a larger scuffle to break out.
Yeah, that’s probably why he put them in jail for a week. I can’t imagine what those kids went through for no reason.