I would torch everything around me to teach them a lesson.
The police are holding on to the phones because they won't all fit in the school safe. They probably all got their phones back after school. Police didn't steal anything.
When I was in school all our phones were once confiscated as well. There were a few dikbekke but no one threw a tantrum, there was no vandalism and no one decided to burn down the school.
Sounds like this school has a lot of problems with criminals so good for teachers and police trying to do something about it.
Story makes it sound like police were there for drugs and weapons, and confiscated the phones too. Then the burning started after? Who knows.
Point is a phone isn't a drug or a weapon and fkall to do with the police, no matter what was arranged. If the police are so useful, why didn't they stop the fires and people starting them?
I don't support the burning of infrastructure, but this place is and was a dump, kids shouldn't even be allowed to go there if you give a fk at all about their safety