News (Media Awareness Project) - US KY: PUB LTE: Police Endanger Kids in Useless Drug Raid |
Title: | US KY: PUB LTE: Police Endanger Kids in Useless Drug Raid |
Published On: | 2003-11-13 |
Source: | Daily Independent, (Ashland, KY) |
Fetched On: | 2008-01-19 06:09:40 |
POLICE ENDANGER KIDS IN USELESS DRUG RAID
I watched the video of what looked like a special tactical unit
storming into a high school in Goose Creek, S.C., on Nov. 8. Officers
waved their guns at 15- to 18-year-old kids. Some were forced to look
straight down the barrel of a gun. Kids were told to get down on the
ground; some were handcuffed, detained while dogs barked at their feet.
These officers, and school officials put those children in serious
danger - all over a drug raid that turned up no drugs or any arrests.
Now I understand President Bush, when he said, "Drugs transform
schools into places of violence and chaos."
It does not have to be like this!
Charles Byrnes, Taylor Mill
I watched the video of what looked like a special tactical unit
storming into a high school in Goose Creek, S.C., on Nov. 8. Officers
waved their guns at 15- to 18-year-old kids. Some were forced to look
straight down the barrel of a gun. Kids were told to get down on the
ground; some were handcuffed, detained while dogs barked at their feet.
These officers, and school officials put those children in serious
danger - all over a drug raid that turned up no drugs or any arrests.
Now I understand President Bush, when he said, "Drugs transform
schools into places of violence and chaos."
It does not have to be like this!
Charles Byrnes, Taylor Mill
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