Morgan Hill: After flag flap, cops add officers at Live Oak High
Posted: 05/07/2010 09:23:11 AM PDT
Updated: 05/07/2010 10:32:02 AM PDT
Morgan Hill police stepped up their presence today at a high school catapulted into the national news spotlight over four football players who wore American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo.
Sgt. Jerry Neumayer said two officers are now patrolling the campus of Live Oak High School, instead of one. At lunch, he plans to send two more to campus. And he said "three or four" more officers are working overtime today, to be ready just in case there's trouble at school.
"We've heard rumors of possible protests or fights," he said. "The principal asked us to come."
All the brouhaha stems from Wednesday, when four teens wore red, white and blue garb on Cinco de Mayo, a day when many Latino students wore red, white and green to honor the defeat of the French military in Mexico in