Raid at High School Leads to Racial Divide, Not Drugs
The infamous Goose Creek, S.C. drug raid at the high school contines to have repercussions, including a class action suit against the police, the school district, and the principal, George C. McCrackin.
One of the students describes his experience this way:
'For many of the students in the sweep, the raid is a humiliating memory. Rodney Goodwin, a 10th grader who came to Stratford this year, said he was in the cafeteria when the principal pointed him out, along with other students at his table, to three police officers, who told him he was under arrest and put plastic handcuffs on his wrists. Mr. Goodwin was taken to the main hallway, where, he said, a police officer pointed a gun at him as the principal patted him down and reached inside his pockets.
"I really don't know why they did what they did to me," he said. "I didn't do anything wrong, but they arrested me." '
"... a police officer pointed a gun at him as the principal patted him down and reached inside his pockets." That alone shows that it is an outrage that this moron is still employed.
Another "zero tolerance" nightmare story. Instituted in theory to keep criminal activity out of schools, "zero tolerance" mostly catches the innocent, because the real bad guys are too smart to be caught up, leaving the innocent to be swept up witout even knowing what they did wrong.
"Zero tolerance" really means "I can look like I am keeping drugs and guns out of my school without having to do any real work, and the school board will back me up even if I look like an idiot for doing it."
Posted on December 10, 2003 11:53 AM