Update on Goose Creek incident...
I wrote about the Goose Creek high-school drug raid
here
Now, about a month later, a lawsuit has been filed.
From the South Carolina
State:
bq. 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.
bq. Individuals named as defendants in the suit, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Charleston, include: Stratford High School principal George McCrackin; Berkeley County school superintendent Chester Floyd; Goose Creek police Chief Harvey Becker; and Goose Creek police Lt. Dave Aarons.
bq. The suit also names the city of Goose Creek, its police department and the Berkeley County School District as defendants.
bq. School officials declined to comment on the details of the lawsuit but expressed regret about the incident.
Awwww...
bq. The Nov. 5 raid by police and school officials has created a national firestorm, in part because it was caught on videotape by the school and made available to a local television reporter.
bq. Stratford officials have said they had reason to believe drugs were being sold in the hallway before classes started, but no drugs were found in the raid.
Yeah - lock down the school, bring in large numbers of armed cops and dogs and not find anything... Can we say "job opening"
Posted by DaveH at December 10, 2003 10:00 AM