Drug Raid With no Drugs?

[Mike]

After complaints from parents and students, police in Goose Creek, South Carolina, defended their decision Friday to send a team of officers, some with guns drawn, into a high school earlier this week for a drug raid that turned up no drugs.

The Berkeley School District north of Charleston, South Carolina, also defended its role in the incident, which has triggered outrage among some in the community.

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What worries me is the fact that they did this to the whole school. The school administrators have to have some sort of clue on who is doing it. Perhaps they should have done it before or after school?

[M_Six]

They're just doing what Bush did. No WMD, no drugs. But somehow it all gets justified in the end.

[Gait_Keeper]

damn that's sick, what the hell?????????????

did they check the staff too???????
guns drawn!!!!!!

what if a child sneezed and was shot?

aw man I see many law suits

too much room for error

review the tape and go after the offenders, this scary, will other states follow this example??

[Aaron_J]

Within 30 seconds, officers had moved to "safely secure the 107 students who were in that hallway," Aarons said. "During that time some of the officers did unholster in a down-ready position, so that they would be able to respond if the situation became violent."

If there was even the slightest chance of the "situation becoming violent" this should have never been allowed to take place.

If I was a parent of a child in this school I wouldn't stop until the principal and those in charge of the officers were fired or otherwise removed from their positions.

Every other officer involved in this disaster should be severely reprimanded for their role.

At what point could this have seemed like a good idea? At what point did anyone think the best solution to the schools drug problem was to send armed men into the school and create a situation that might "become violent"?

[Bovon]

Urrr uhh, anybody happen to remember Columbine H.S. in Littleton, Colorado?...

Anybody here old enough to remember Pearl Harbor?

Once shot in the arse, it may have been your fault, but.. it is your fault if you get shot in the arse the second time, under the same circumstances. Its easy to Monday morning quarterback..not quite as easy to make that kind of snap decision within minutes of an alarm that could take some kids lives. This is called "growing up"..taking responsibility...something that many HS kids have not quite got a handle on yet.

Those that are criticizing the amount of force used this time, would also be the same ones that would be seriously critical if nothing had been done... and some of the students had been killed in a similar situation.

If we must err, I...for one would much rather the error be on the side of the students rather than the complacent doods.

[Pexster]

Excuse me, maybe I missed something (wouldn't be the 1st time) -- was Columbine about drugs?

[Pexster]

Pearl Harbor?

No, I'm not old enough to remember, but my late neighbors were. My friend Howard (a fellow ham radio operator) was a member of the South China Sea Patrol (think of the movie "The Sand Pebbles"), then a diesel submariner, then went topside. He was at sea and his wife was in Honolulu on 12/7/1941. It was 6 months before they knew that each other was alive. And they both always maintained that we KNEW Pearl Harbor was going to happen. I am honored to have known them.

[Aaron_J]

Bovon.

I am not understanding your reply nor do I see what Pearl Harbor and Columbine have to do with sending armed police into a High School to create a situation that they admit could have become violent.

Care to elaborate?

[Gomer]

I mind the guns drawn stuff so much.

What bothers me is the fact this was "leaked" to the kids somehow.

[pickel]

Gives the cops a chance to play cowboy with real guns. But look who they picked on....little kids with theme tablets and writing materials. Like they'd really bust in on an organized crime meeting ( if they weren't paid off ) The Law Enforcement mentality ???????? , What's next ????????