Posted on 05/25/2006 7:50:45 PM PDT by DuckFan4ever
Security Director First Sprayed Pepper Spray
DES MOINES, Wash. -- A police officer used a TASER gun on a student to break up a fight between two juniors at Mount Rainier High School in Des Moines Thursday. The Highline School District's director of security was in the high school when the fight broke out in the school cafeteria at 7:30 a.m.
The first time the two students fighting ignored the security director's orders to stop fighting, he sprayed them with pepper spray. When that didn't stop the fight, the school's resource officer took out a TASER gun and jolted one of the boys on the back of his shoulder.
Neither student required hospitalization.
Both of the students involved in the fight have been suspended from school. Many students witnessed the incident.
read the article....and good night.
good night
if pepper was used ....
You're dating yourself....my dentist says kids he sees now are substantially larger than 25 years ago.
"I really have no idea what public schools are like nowadays."
Ummm, no you don't.
I get really mad at my husband at times for stepping into the middle of a fight. He's not overly tall, 5'6' and the farm boys around here are large boys. So far he's managed just with the force of his voice and personality no physical force needed. However, he has an old Navy trick that would put em down pretty quick provided he's fast enough to use it!
He says the worst ones are the ones between girls. They latch onto hair, body parts whatever and they don't let go!
In the past 20 years, suit-happy lawyers have taken school disticts across the country to court for "failing to control the violence" along with other bogus demands.
The ACLU jumps into the fray in a heartbeat by representing the loser of a fight AGAINST the school district for failing to stop little Johnny from getting hurt.
School districts have been forced to add security just to stop the violence, much of it promoted by HipHop Gangsta bullcrap.
School districts these days are often in a no win situation. If they don't stop the fights, they get sued for millions for "allowing the situation to continue"
If they DO stop the fights, they get harassed, sued or criticized by people like yourself who apparantly has some bone to pick with security officers.
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