And MORE on the Georgia football riot...

Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution blog.

• The Superintendent of the Warren County Schools asked that the buses for Hancock County be moved to a safer location. Even though the schools have had issues with past sporting events, request was denied.
• The Hancock County Sheriff declined a request for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to step in. Eventually, the GBI came in on their own, but the investigation is still on-going.
• It appears we now know the genesis of this riot: The week before, Hancock County was playing another team, while Warren County had the week off -- so several Warren County players attended the game, and openly celebrated on the field with the other team when Hancock County was defeated.
• It has been reported that several Warren County players were, in fact, additionally attacked by Hancock County law enforcement!
• From the Augusta Chronicle: The Warren County coach had five metal plates put into his face.
  

That basically makes it clear -- this was a premeditated, pre-planned, and probably community-wide attack.

Time to close down the entire sports complex, hopefully forever (Warren County has declared that they will forfeit all contests in all sports with Hancock County for at least the rest of the academic year -- they refuse to face them.) at Hancock County.

Warren County was defeated in their homecoming by Washington-Wilkes 34-13 tonight.