10:10 AM MDT on Wednesday, October 5, 2005

Associated Press

BOISE -- This morning, members of an Hispanic student organization from Boise State University are gathering outside of a Boise high school to protest a flier recently distributed in a nearby neighborhood.

The flier distributed to homes near Centennial High School said a a violent gang from Los Angeles had moved into the area and attacked children. And it said that police were warning residents to be on the lookout for young Hispanic groups.

But Lynn Hightower with the Boise Police Department says that's not true. She says the flier was distributed by the father of a boy who was in a fight at the high school. She says the fight was not

gang-related.

Adrian Lopez is the president of the Organizacion De Estudiantes Latino-Americanos at Boise State University.

Lopez says he and other group members are gathering quietly outside of the school to show people in the neighborhood that young Hispanics are not a threat.