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Three boys (l-r) Daequon Carelock, Wan'Tauhjs Weathers and Raliek Redd were arrested in Rochester while waiting for bus to basketball scrimmage

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Three high school students were arrested while waiting for a bus in Rochester after a police officer told them to disperse.

The boys are members of a basketball team at Edison Tech High School. They were arrested Wednesday, Nov. 27 while waiting for a bus to take them to a scrimmage at Aquinas.

According to WROC, basketball coach Jacob Scott had arranged for a bus to pick the boys up on Main St. There was no school that morning, so he arranged a central location for all his players to meet and wait.

A police officer asked the group of about a dozen players to disperse. When they refused and explained they were waiting for a school bus, the officer arrested three of them.

The three boys arrested were Raliek Redd, Wan'Tauhjs Weathers and Daequon Carelock.

"We tried to tell him we was waiting for the bus," Redd said. "And he didn't care. He arrested us anyways."

According to WROC, the police report claims the boys were:



When Coach Scott arrived and questioned the officer, the officer threatened to arrest him as well.

"He goes on to say, 'Listen, if you don't disperse, you're going to get booked as well,'" Scott told WHEC in Rochester. "I said sir, I'm the adult. I'm their varsity basketball coach. How can you book me? What have I done wrong?"

Eventually, several more officers arrived. Scott attempted to talk with them as well.

"One of the officers told me if he had a big enough caravan he would take all of us downtown," Scott said. "...I'm speaking to the officers with dignity...and still [my players] see me get treated like nothing."

The boys' families had to post $200 bail to make sure the boys were home for Thanksgiving.

"It's a catastrophe," Scott said. "There were 17 other guys who had to witness three of their teammates get arrested for doing what? Waiting for the bus for a scrimmage."

A trial date has been set for Dec. 11.

Watch interviews with coach Jacob Smith and the three arrested players from WHEC Rochester:

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