# Police raid US high school at gunpoint

- Author: Joichi Ito
- Date: 2004-08-21T14:01:56Z


meta-rojiteach your children well, at gunpoint

ap via abc news, august 20, 2004Justice Says Guns-Drawn School Raid Legal

A guns-drawn raid at a high school last year did not violate civil rights laws and the case is closed, the U.S. Justice Department said.

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Fifteen officers entered Stratford High School's main hallway and ordered 130 students to the floor Nov. 5 of last year. They used plastic ties to handcuff 18 students and school officials opened and searched 17 book bags using a drug dog.

Police found no drugs or weapons, but the raid frightened children, provoked marches and lawsuits and brought national media attention and the resignation of the school's longtime principal.the original story is covered here with video.  the memory hole has more, including an unidentified person in what appears to be a military uniform.This is one incident that I can't imagine happening in Japan... at least not yet. I wonder what this sort of "police state" behavior does to children.





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