School seizes 16-year-old boy's rosary beads because they are 'gang symbol'
In an alarmingly over the top ruling a Colorado high school confiscated rosary beads from a student because officials believed he was wearing them to mark affiliation to a gang.
Manuel Vigil was outraged when staff at Thompson Valley High School in Loveland accused him of being part of a gang, forcibly taking his religious symbol from him and refusing to return it.
The 16-year-old and his family are strong Catholics and he insists he wears the beads to protect himself from harm, having at no point been a part of a gang.
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