VIDEO SHOWS DRAWN GUNS AND COWERING STUDENTS

The surveillance video of the Stratford High School drug raid broadcast on
televisions across the country shows a small clip of the 30-minute sweep
from one camera among the more than 70 at the school.

One angle shows officers coming down the main hallway at 6:45 a.m., several
with guns aimed downward. Most of the students are standing along the
sides. Several cower after spotting the officers, hiding behind each other.

Within 30 seconds, all the students are sitting or lying against the wall
on one side or against the trophy case on the other, with their backpacks
in the center. The camera angle does not show all 107 students who happened
to be in the hall.

Other officers come in from the bottom of the screen. The video shows an
officer pick out a sitting student, throw him to the side and pin him down.
He is one of the students searched later.

At one point, the officers sweep their guns at a downward angle, near
students on the floor.

With a gun in his right hand aiming out, one officer uses his left to
direct students to stay down. When he bends down toward a group of
students, the muzzle of the gun momentarily points down with him.

The officers then replace their guns in their holsters. Students turn and
face the wall or trophy case, on their knees, and fold their hands behind
their heads.

A police dog comes into the screen about 6:50 a.m. and walks up and down
the hall sniffing backpacks, going in and out of the scene. Ten minutes
later, students turn back around and sit.

By 7:10 a.m., students begin getting up one-by-one, starting at the end of
the hallway. Officers talk to each student as he or she stands up, then
walks away.

Five minutes later, the hall is flooded with students heading to class.