Seen at publicola’s: “Police in the western Michigan community of Wyoming entered two classrooms at Lee Middle and High School on Thursday and announced there was a threat to the school, The Grand Rapids Press reported. Students, who were unaware police were conducting a drill, were taken from the classroom into the halls, patted down […]

A few years back: Seventeen Stratford High School students are suing the city of Goose Creek and the Berkeley County school district in federal court, alleging police and school officials terrorized them in a drug raid last month. In the raid, which was caught on tape leaked to the press, students were threatened and handcuffed. […]

I’ve covered the drug raid at Goose Creek in the past. Police drew guns and used dogs on high school students and no drugs were found. Pete reports on a possible settlement in the case: A federal judge gave preliminary approval Tuesday to a $1.2 million plan to settle lawsuits filed over a high school […]

For those of you who don’t remember Goose Creek, here’s the skinny: A drug sweep Wednesday morning at a South Carolina school has some parents and students questioning police tactics. Surveillance video from Stratford High School in Goose Creek shows 14 officers, some with guns drawn, ordering students to lie the ground as police searched […]

Triggerfinger reports that there will be no criminal charges in the police raid of a high school. Civil suits are pending.

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Goose Creek Police using AK-47s? I guess, better to raid high schools with.

Radley is tracking botched police raids so I don’t have to. Unclear on the concept: Polcie in Arizona raided the home of a 73-year-old man with Alzheimers this week. The flash grenade they deployed during the raid set the home on fire, and burned it down. No one inside heard a police announcement, though the […]

Two abysmal offerings today, first is this: An 89-year-old woman could be evicted from her home of more than 50 years for missing one tax payment of $572 on her South Hanover Twp. property. Helene Shue’s red farmhouse and 41 acres of land along Route 39 — about two miles from Hersheypark — were appraised […]