"I talk Spanish at home, except with my brothers, with them I speak English, " says Adriana, a teenager at Bell High School in East Los Angeles, California.

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Giddings, Lee's county seat, is the kind of place where the courthouse bell tower rings every hour and the most important event in the world is Friday night's high school football game.

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"She was very high achieving and was in the top 10% of performance in the school, " Mrs Bell said.

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Bell and five other defendants were arrested in the alleged beating of Barker, who is white, at their high school on December 4.

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