Gun-Wielding Cops Conduct Drug Sweep At School: Drug Sweep Finds No Drugs
Police, school district defend drug raid
We received reports from staff members and students that there was a lot of drug activity. Recently we busted a student for having over 300-plus prescription pills. The volume and the amount of marijuana coming into the school is unacceptable.
- George McCrackin
They would go put a gun up to them, push them against the wall, take their book bags and search them. They just came up and got my friend, not even saying anything or what was going to happen. ... I was scared
- Aaron Sims
How this man was ever higher to run a high school defies explanation. Personally, I wouldn't hire him to run a Jack-in-the-Box.
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 for marijuana. Students who didn't comply with the orders quickly enough were reportedly handcuffed.
Police didn't find any criminals in the armed sweep, but they say search dogs smelled drugs on a dozen backpacks.
The school's principal defended the dramatic sweep....
The parents of some students who were subjected to the sweep disagree.
"I was just upset knowing they had guns put to their head and a canine was barking at them and about to bite somebody," said Latonia Simmons, the parent of one student. "It was awful."
I can understand McCrackin's concern about drugs in the school. He is, after all, ultimately responsible for the security and safety of the students. Even so, armed cops with dogs? What in the hell was McCrackin thinking? Of course, this assumes there actually was an honest-to-God thought process at work here- not something I'm altogether certain about.
Part of McCrackin's job may be to safeguard students, but that is not going to be achieved by these Gestapo tactics. I wonder how many of the students had to go home after this incident and change their shorts? Was this really necessary? Of course not, but it sure makes for good DUMASS AWARD material, eh?
Congratulations, Mr. McCrackin. It's just too bad that your talents are better suited for running a Gestapo training camp.
