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Love Gone WrongFrom: Dennis SerdelTo: Military Resistance NewsletterSent: January 29, 2014Subject: Love Gone Wrong

Written by Dennis Serdel, Vietnam 1967-68 (one tour) Light Infantry, Americal Div. 11thBrigade; United Auto Workers GM Retiree

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Love Gone Wrong

So tired of the drifting coldlike the war in Afghanistanthat keeps going on & onwith Soldiersin love with themselvescoming hometo a heros welcome
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Kailua Soldier Dies In Afghanistan PlaneCrash

Jan 15, 2014 Hawaii News Now

HONOLULU

An Army National Guard soldier from Hawaii was killed after the plane he was in crashedin eastern Afghanistan.

An MC-12 reconnaissance airplane crashed on January 10, killing Sgt. Drew M. Scobie,according to a spokesperson for the Hawaii National Guard.

Scobie and two others were on their way back from a nighttime mission when the crashoccurred, killing all three.

The military says there is no indication that the plane crashed as a result of enemyaction. The cause is under investigation, and details will be released by the Departmentof Defense at a later time.

Scobie, 25, was born and raised in Kailua and joined the Hawaii Army National Guard in2009. He was deployed to Afghanistan in October 2013 as a Fire Direction Operator.

He flew on the MC-12 with a primary mission to provide intelligence, surveillance andreconnaissance support to ground troops.

According to Scobies Facebook page, he also worked at Straub Clinic & Hospital onOahu. A number of his family and friends have posted condolences on his page.

Sgt. Scobie leaves behind a wife, who is expecting, and a child.

The Scobie family released the following statement:

We continue to celebrate the life of Drew Scobie, loving father, husband, son, grandson,brother, friend and hero. Drew loved his family deeply, proudly and heroically carried the

Aloha spirit wherever he went to defend our country.

Drews zest for life was contagious and always made his family proud. He will remain anexample for his son Duke, his unborn baby, his entire family and the many who weretouched by his upbeat and positive attitude for everything he did.

Drew will always be in our hearts and his spirit will live on and become part of theessence of our islands just like the breeze on the ocean.

Love knows no distance and Drew is here and will always remain in our hearts. Gifts tosupport the Scobie children can be made at any branch of Bank of Hawaii.


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POLITICIANS REFUSE TO HALT THEBLOODSHED

THE TROOPS HAVE THE POWER TO STOP THEWAR

Resistance Action

[Graphic: flickr.com/photos]

2014-01-28 Xinhua

KABUL -- Two Afghan army soldiers were killed in two separate bomb attacks, thecountrys Defense Ministry said on Tuesday evening.

The ministry said in a statement that the two army personnel were killed in twoImprovised Explosive Device (IED) attacks in western Farah and southern Helmand

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January 29 The Associated Press & by Saifullah Maftoon, Pajhwok

Four security personnel were killed on Wednesday in an attack in the Qarabagh districtof southern Ghazni province, officials said.

Governor Musa Khan Akbarzada told Pajhwok Afghan News that the bomber detonatedhis explosives-laden car near security personnels vehicles in the afternoon.

Two Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers and as many policemen were killed in theattack in the Karo Sayee area of Qarabagh, the governor said.

Located on the Kabul-Kandahar highway, Karo Sayee has a 50-shop bazaar. ANA andpolice personnel launched an operation in the area this morning.

Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesman, said one fighter was killed during a clash inthe district. Without commenting on the bombing, he claimed the security forces alsosuffered casualties.


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The Taliban claimed responsibility for the bombing in an emailed statement.

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Jan 29 By Ghanizada, Khaama Press

At least two Afghan national army soldiers were killed following a roadside improvisedexplosive device (IED) explosion in southern Helmand province of Afghanistan.

The Afghan defense ministry following a statement, said the incident took place inSangin district of Helmand province on Tuesday.

IF YOU DONT LIKE THE RESISTANCESTOP THE OCCUPATION

Large Sums Of Money HaveLikely Been Wasted In

Afghanistan Trying To ImbueBasic Literacy In Police

Recruits Shoddy Contractor Work, Lax

Oversight Between 30 And 50 Percent Of

Afghan Police And Army Recruits

Either Desert Or Otherwise Drop OutEvery Year

One Contractor Billing For Classes HeldFor As Little As 2 Hours A Month


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January 28, 2014 By Dan Murphy, Staff writer; The Christian Science Monitor

The ability of soldiers to read and write enables them to understand intelligence, keeprecords, order fresh supplies, read maps, and participate in training crucial to their skillsin the field. In the case of the police literacy is perhaps even more important since,ideally, they conduct investigations and make arrests that can lead to fair prosecutions.

Yet it appears that large sums of money have likely been wasted in Afghanistan trying toimbue basic literacy in police recruits due to shoddy contractor work, lax oversight andseemingly nonexistent tracking of recruits over time, according to a report releasedtoday by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction:

The command said that the literacy program will meet its goal of 100 percent of ANSFpersonnel proficient at Level 1 and 50 percent proficient at Level 3 by the end of 2014.However, these goals were based on the ANSFs authorized end strength of 148,000personnel that was established in 2009, rather than the current authorized end strengthof 352,000.

Several NTM-A/CSTC-A (the National Training Mission-Afghanistan and the CombinedSecurity Transition Command-Afghanistan - both NATO-led security training efforts)officials told us they do not know how the goal for the literacy program was developed,but that attaining it based on the current authorized ANSF end strength may beunrealistic and unattainable.

Translation?

The already imperfect literacy program for Afghan soldiers and police (collectivelyknown as the Afghan National Security Forces, or ANSF) was designed for anoverall force less than half the size of the cu rrent one.

The SIGAR report also says that between 30 and 50 percent of Afghan police and armyrecruits either desert or otherwise drop out every year, that literacy training was removedfrom basic training by the Afghan Ministry of Defense last year, and that 45 percent ofpolice personnel recruited between July 2012 and February 2013 were sent directly tofield checkpoints without receiving any literacy training.

Literacy level one is the proficiency of an average first grader in the US school system.

The US and its NATO allies have long recognized that the illiteracy of the average Afghan cop or soldier was a major obstacle to their goals in the country.

In 2010, fewer than 20 percent of Afghan soldiers and police were literate. In Aug. 2010

Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, the head of the NATO training effort for the ANSF at the time,laid out the challenge in stark terms: Unless we take on literacy, we truly will neverprofessionalize this force.

To address the problem three contracts worth a total of $200 million were issued thatmonth to OT Training Solutions, Insight Group, and the Education Institute of Karwan toteach recruits how to read.

How has it gone?


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The lack of defined requirements for classes and length of ins truct ion resulted inone contractor bill ing for c lasses held for as litt le as 2 hours a month and formultip le classes at one site that could have been combined into one class,SIGAR writes.

None of the three literacy training contracts requires independent verification of testingfor proficiency or identifies recruits in a way that permits accurate tracking as the recruitsmove on to army and police units.

The NATO training mission reports that 298,526 soldiers and police have trained tosome degree of literacy (224,826 reading at a first grade level and 73,700 at a thirdgrade level) but that is well below the current authorized force of 352,000 (leaving53,474 without any literacy training).

Thats well shor t of 100% lit eracy, the goal of the progr am, and SIGAR says eventhe reported numbers can be questioned given the absence of outs ide auditing ofperformance and the lack of tracking of sold iers and police quitting against newrecruits coming in.

FORWARD OBSERVATIONS

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convinc ing argument, is needed. Oh hadI the ability, and could reach the nations ear, I would, pour out a fiery st ream ofbiting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke.


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ANNIVERSARIES

January 30, 1972:Shameful Anniversary; Bloody Sunday:

An Occupation Massacre

Carl Bunin Peace History Jan 28 - Feb 3

In Bogside, Derry, British Occupied Ireland, near the Rossville flats, 13 unarmed andpeaceful civil rights demonstrators were shot dead by British Army paratroopers from the

British Armys 1st Parachute Regiment in an event that became known as BloodySunday.

The protesters, all Catholics, had been marching in protest of the British policy ofinternment without trial of suspected Irish nationalists. Internment without trial wasintroduced by the British government on August 9, 1971.

British authorities had ordered the march banned, and sent troops to confront thedemonstrators when it went ahead.


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The soldiers fired indiscriminately into the crowd of protesters, killing 13 and woundingseventeen. One wounded man later died from illness attributed to that shooting.

By the end of the year 323 civilians and 144 military and paramilitary personnel would bedead.

January 31, 1876:Odious Betrayal

Sitting Bull: One of several chiefs who refused to comply.


The U.S. government ordered that all Native Americans must move to reservations bythis date or be declared hostile.

Most Sioux did not even hear of the ultimatum un til after the deadline.

Major General Philip Sheridan considered the notif ication exercise a waste of

time.

January 31, 1968:Resistance Anniversary:


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The Tet OffensivePeace History: Carl Bunin

The Tet (the lunar new year) Offensive began as North Vietnamese and Viet Congforces launched surprise attacks against major cities, provincial and district capitals inSouth Vietnam.

The attack had been anticipated but, nonetheless, half of the ARVN troops (Army of theRepublic of Vietnam) were on leave because of the holiday.

There were attacks in Saigon (the Souths capital) on the Independence Palace (theresidence of the president), the radio station, the ARVNs joint General Staff Compound,Tan Son Nhut airfield, and the United States embassy, causing considerable damage

January 31, 1945: Anniversary Of A Murder;

The Execution Of Private Eddy Slovik

Pvt. Eddie Slovik


Private Eddie Slovik became the first American soldier since the Civil War to beexecuted for desertion.

Supreme Alli ed Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered Slovik s execution becarried out, he said, to avoid further desertions in the late stages of the war.


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Yet, curiously, the army never publicized his execution beyond his company, never toldhis wife, and buried him in a secret cemetery.

It would be nearly a decade after Sloviks death before Huie began investigating thestrange circumstances surrounding it.

Despite the efforts of many people, Sloviks wife never received the paltry $10,000 plusinterest she asked for in GI life insurance. Sloviks remains were finally returned to theU.S. in 1987, to be buried beside the grave of his deceased wife.

While many people believe that Slovik was the only American soldier executedduring the war, that is not tr ue.

Many w ere executed on charges other than desertion, and Afr ican Americansoldiers once again bore the brunt of these executions.

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OCCUPATION PALESTINE

Israelis Detain Camel For Infil tratingMilitary Zone In Occupied Palestine

January 26, 2014 Middle East Monitor via Uruknet

Israeli security forces have detained a camel alleged to have infiltrated a military zonenear Bethlehem, taking the level of arbitrary arrests and harassment of youngPalestinians to a new low.

The head of Rashaida village council, Fawaz Rashaydeh, told Quds news agency thatIsraeli soldiers arrested the camel belonging to Moslim Younis Rashaydeh and took it tothe Maale Adumim settlement near Bethany.

The soldiers arrested the camels owner at the same time and forced him to pay a fine of2,000 shekels for the return of the animal and an additional 600 shekels as a transferfee.

Rashaydeh accused the Israelis of acting with intent to drive Palestinians from their landto the east of Bethlehem.

According to Mr Rashaydeh, this is not the first time that the occupation forces haveconfiscated and detained livestock belonging to local citizens. Over the past few yearsIsrael has confiscated several herds of cattle belonging to Palestinian farmers from thevillage, he said.

The village head appealed to the relevant authorities and institutions to intervene andstop Israeli violations against Palestinians and protect their livestock. The farmers facethe loss of their livelihood due to the Israelis taking ever more of their pastures as well astheir animals.


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Thirteen-Year-Old Palestinian Boy Attacked By Zionist Settler Mob, As

Usual;Then Hes Arrested At Checkpoint 56 InOccupied Hebron

Yazan Al-Sharabate just prior to his arrest (Photo by ISM)

25th January 2014 International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team; Hebron, OccupiedPalestine

On Saturday, January 25th at around 2:30 p.m., when a group of around 30 settlerswere passing by Checkpoint 56 on Al-Shuhada Street in Hebron, two 13-year-old boyswere attacked by five settlers.

One of the boys, his father and a photographer were taken to the police station wherethey were interrogated for three hours by the police before being released.

Yazan Al-Sharabate, the boy who was arrested, left from his home on Al-ShuhadaStreet at 2:30 p.m. in the dir ection of Checkpoint 56.

On his way, five settlers between the ages of 15 and 24 were harassing him. Thefive settlers caught up with Yazan and began to beat him.

Yazans friend who was passing by was also assaulted when he tried to intervene to endthe attack.

Yazans father arrived and stopped the assault, but when a group of Israelisoldiers arrived they pushed Yazan to the ground and handcuffed him while thesettlers ran away.


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Judge Busy Kissing Ass Of Oil And Gas Company:

Local Woman Vera ScrogginsThreatened With Fine And

Imprisonment If She Sets Foot InNew Country Hospital;

Also Off-Limits Are The Chinese

Restaurant Where She Takes HerGrandchildren, The Supermarkets AndDrug Stores Where She Shops, The

Animal Shelter Where She Adopted HerYorkshire Terrier, Bowling Alley,

Recycling Centre, Golf Club, And LakeShore

Anti-fracking activist Vera Scroggins, left, talks with Yoko Ono, center, and Sean Lennonat a fracking site in Franklin Forks, Pennsylvania. Scroggins is also a videographer andself-appointed guide to the gas patch of northeastern Pennsylvania, where she lives in asingle-wide trailer near a lake. Photograph: Richard Drew/AP


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I believe she is a public menace because what she does is she essentiallytrespasses not so much on property though she does do that but shetrespasses on the soul of the communi ty, he said. She does not allow thepeople of this communi ty any peace.

29 January 2014 by Suzanne Goldenberg in Montrose, Pennsylvania; Guardian Newsand Media Limited

Vera Scroggins, an outspoken opponent of fracking, is legally barred from thenew county hospital.

Also off-l imits, unless Scroggins wants to ri sk fines and ar res t, are the Chineserestaurant where she takes her grandchild ren, the supermarkets and drug storeswhere she shops, the animal shelter where she adopted her Yorkshire t errier,bowling alley, recycling centre, golf club, and lake shore.

In total, 312.5 sq miles are no-go areas for Scroggins under a sweeping courtorder granted by a local judge that bars her from any properties owned or leasedby one of the biggest drill ers in the Pennsylvania natural gas rush, Cabot Oil &Gas Corporation.

They might as well have put an ankle bracelet on me with a GPS on it and be ableto track me wherever I go, Scroggins said.

I feel like I am some kind of a pri soner, that my rights have been cur tailed, havebeen restricted.

The ban represents one of the most extreme measures taken by the oil and gasindustr y to date against p rotesters like Scroggins, who has operated peacefullyand within the law including taking Yoko Ono to fr ack sites in her bid to elevatepublic concerns about fracking.

It was always going to be an unequal fight when Scroggins, now 63, made it her self-appointed mission five years ago to stop fracking in this, the richest part of the MarcellusShale.

Just how unequal became clear on 21 October when the case of Cabot v Scrogginscame before a local judge, Kenneth Seamans, in the Montrose court house.

Cabot turned up with four lawyers and nine witnesses, employees of the company andthe firm it hired to provide security.

Scroggins represented herself. She told the court she had been unable to f ind alawyer as the hearing had been called on 72 hours notice.

By the time the hearing was over, the judge had granted Cabot a temporary injunctionbarring Scroggins from all property owned or leased by the company.


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It is hereby ordered that Ms Scroggins is restrained, enjoined and prohibited fromentering upon property owned and/or leased by Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation includingbut not limited to well sites, well pads and access roads, the injunction reads.

The effect of that ban is far broader than the dry legal language would suggest.

In court filings, Cabot said it holds leases on 200,000 acres of land, equivalent to312.5 sq mi les.

That amounts to nearly 40% of the largely rural county in nor th-easternPennsylvania where Scroggins lives and where Cabot does most of its drill ing.

The temporary injunc tion granted on 21 October does not require Cabot to identifyor map the lands where it holds dri lling leases, putting Scroggins in the bizarreposition of having to figu re out for herself which areas were off-limits.

Cabot later offered to limit the scope of its exclusion order in court filings seeking tomake the injunction permanent.

The next hearing on that injunction is scheduled for 24 March.

Scroggins, who now has a lawyer, is fighting to overturn the injunction.

Until then, each tr ip Scroggins makes outs ide her home requires a calculationabout whether her route will take her on lands or r oads leased to Cabot, or a visitto the court house to pore over property records.

We need a map. We need to know where I can and can not go, she said. Can I stophere, or can I not stop here?

Is it OK to be here if I go to a business or if I go to a home? I have had to ask andcheck out every person I go to: are you leased to Cabot?

Many of those businesses are, it turns out. Susquehanna County is one of the mostactive areas in Pennsylvanias natural gas rush. Eight of the top 10 most productive gaswells are in the county, according to an industry newsletter. All eight belong to Cabot.

Environmental groups say the court and Cabot - went too far.

It seems to be an extraordinarily heavy handed reaction by industry and one which wasextremely out of proportion to what she has been doing, said Kate Sinding, a lawyer forthe Natural Resources Defence Council.

Campaigners claim other over-reactions by indus try and police against frackingopponents such as the arrest last December of tw o protesters in Oklahoma for terrorism hoax , after they unfurled a banner and dropped glitt er on the floor ofan office tower owned by Devon Energy.

But Scroggins lawyer, George Kinchy, says this was the first time to his knowledge thata company has used the full weight of the law against a single activist.


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He also said Cabot was lucky Scroggins was not represented by a lawyer at the hearing.

The company was not pressed to demonstrate the gas leases gave it the right to makesuch absolute decisions about access. They have no proof that they had the right toexclude her. They didnt present evidence of leases that gave them the right to treat theproperty as their own, he said.

Cabot refused several requests to respond, beyond a brief email statement fromspokesman, George Stark. Cabot has a policy of not commenting specifically onlitigation to which it is a party, the statement reads. That being said, Cabot supports anindividuals right to free speech and regrets having to seek relief from the court in orderto prevent Ms Scroggins from repeatedly trespassing on company property, where shecould potentially jeopardise the safety of herself and others.

However, the company arranged for Tom Shepstone, a consultant who blogs at NaturalGas Now, to speak on its behalf. Shepstone said the injunction was overdue.

Im proud of Cabot and what theyve done because theyre saying were not going totake this any longer, he said.

Cabot in court filings does not accuse Scroggins of violence or of causing harm toproperty, and she has never been arrested or charged with trespass. She has notchained herself to machinery, or staged sit-ins.

But Shepstone argued Scroggins had upset too many people to be tolerated.

I believe she is a public menace because what she does is she essentiallytrespasses not so much on property though she does do that but shetrespasses on the soul of the communi ty, he said. She does not allow thepeople of this communi ty any peace.

In the five years since fracking came to north-eastern Pennsylvania, Scroggins has beenrelentless in trying to exposing the risks associated with the industry.

Scroggins and her then husband moved to this very rural area of north-easternPennsylvania from Long Island, New York more than 20 years ago, when their childrenwere small. After various careers, Scroggins, now a grandmother, considers herself afull-time activist.

She has visited frack sites posting up to 500 videos on YouTube. She has called inhealth and environmental regulators at perceived violations, and she has organised bustours of frack sites for anyone who is interested from Yoko Ono and Susan Sarandon

to visiting Canadian elected officials.

None of that activity by Scroggins or other activis ts was ill egal, or presented apublic danger, according to Jason Legg, the district attorney for SusquehanaCounty.

I dont recall any major protests or people trespassing on any property, he said.


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Even by Cabots own admission, in court testimony last October, Scroggins seems tohave been more nuisance than danger.

Her biggest and most repeated offence, according to court testimony, appears to havebeen parking her car on access roads and at times even on the narrow public countyroads at angles that required the big water tankers to swerve around her.

Scroggins, who does not appear adverse to confrontation, was also insistent on talkingto personnel on site. But in every instance cited by Cabot witnesses, she left the areawithin 5 or 10 minutes sometimes after they threatened to call police.

By 2011 those repeat visits to gas sites made Scroggins public enemy number one, sofar as Cabot was concerned.

Cabots security contractor, Northeast Diversified Services told the court it had postedphotographs of Scroggins in their guards campers, and had been following the activistsince 2011.

Yes, we follow you, yes, from site to site, the companys vice-president, Thomas Tolan,told the court.

Scroggins wasnt winning friends in the community either. There are landowners inSusquehana County who have made money off leasing their land to Cabot and othergas companies for fracking. The consensus is basically that it has been a lifeline to anarea that was struggling, Legg said.

In a small town like Montrose, population 1,600, Scroggins forceful brand of activismappears to have been too much for some though she has a hard core of supporters.

In a recent visit to the cour t house to check on Cabot leases, she was scolded by

a court official just for st riking up a conversation wi th the person beside her at thecounter.

A few minutes later, Thomas Meagher, the county solicitor, said Scroggins brought herlegal problems down on herself by failing to following the unwritten rules of civiliseddiscourse.

Scroggins rejects the idea that nice has anything to do wi th it.

I am doing this as nicely as I feel is warranted. I have other concerned citi zenfriends who play passive and they dont get anything done more than I do. Theyare just in the background, she said.

They are playing passive and nobody even hears about them. Those who want toplay that womanly rol e, they can play it. I dont have to.

As for Cabot and her cr it ics in the community, They c an just get used to it ,Scroggins said.


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Arrest Of 7 Students After APrank Involving A Water

Balloon Fight

Parent Tried To Approach SchoolPrincipal And Talk About What HeThought Was Excessive

Manhandling Of Students He Was Confronted By Officers,

Threatened With Being Tasered AndThen Arrested For Second-Degree

TrespassingNorth Carolina School Police Pepper-

Sprayed Teens And Handcuffed,


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Interrogated And Arrested Students OnBaseless Accusations Without Informing

Them Of Their Rights Or CallingParents

Wake County school administrators meet with school police to devise new ways ofterrorizing students.

27 January 2014 By Susan Ferriss, The Center for Public Integrity [Excerpts]

Just days after the Obama Administration urged schools to back off harsh school

discipline, a federal civil rights complaint filed in North Carolina this week alleges thatschool police have violently tackled students, pepper-sprayed teens and handcuffed,interrogated and arrested students on baseless accusations without informing them oftheir rights or calling parents.

The complaint filed Wednesday on behalf of eight Wake County, N.C. students recountsmultiple incidents of alleged abusive police behavior, most of them involving African-

American students.

One alleged incident mentioned in the complaint resulted in the arrest of sevenstudents last spring for di sorderly conduct or assault after a prank involving awater balloon fight.

The incident at a Wake County public high school in Raleigh last May sparked publicoutcry, as media reports revealed what some parents considered an excessive policereaction.

As a local TV station reported, a parent who tried to approach a school principal and talkabout what he thought was excessive manhandling of students said he was confrontedby officers, threatened with being Tasered and then arrested for second-degreetrespassing.


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We leave those decisions up to the Raleigh PD, a school spokeswoman told localmedia when asked if she thought arrests were excessive.

A slightly built 15-year-old student who was not arrested was also interviewed by localtelevision and showed how he was bruised and scraped and went to a hospital after an officer forced him down on the ground.

The complaint filed Wednesday describes a host of additional allegations previouslyunknown to the public.

In 2011, accor ding to the complaint, an 11th grade boy identi fied as T.W. waspulled out of a line while waiting for hi s new class schedule, asked to prove hewas a student and pinned against a wall by two officers as a teacher tr ied toconfirm to the officer that the boy was indeed a student.

An of ficer took the boy into the principals off ice and searched him, told him totake off his shoes and began to interrogate him about d rugs and demandinformation about drugs for which he allegedly told the boy he could get paid,the complaint alleges.

The boy was suspended from school for having a lighter, the complaint says, andgiven a citation to adult criminal court for interfering with a police investigation.

The boy and his mother had to make four court appearances, the complaintalleges, during w hich the school of ficer told the judge that he had approached theboy ini tially because he looked old to be in school.

Charges were dropped.

The boy whom the complaint says continued to be harassed by the officer eventually dropped out of school.

The complaint also alleges that a 16-year-old with severe emotional and learningdisabiliti es was manhandled and handcuffed by a police officer during two minorincidents when he became agitated in spite of an ind ividual l earning planadvising that the boy was best calmed by walking him through hallways andspeaking to him.

The boy also was arrested after a bri ef altercation with a student who had bulliedhim, the complaint says, and put into a holding cell at a jail wi th adults unti l after11 p.m. all without the school informing his parents.

The complaint is filed against the Wake County Public School System, the RaleighPolice Department and a number of other law enforcement agencies.

Over the course of the past five years, the complaint claims, the unregulateduse of law enforcement officers to address school discip line matters has resultedin thousands of Wake County Public School System students, predominantly

African-American students and students wi th disabil it ies being deprived of their


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educational rights and sent to juvenile or criminal court as a result of minormisbehavior that occurs at school.

In North Carolina, minors 16 and 17 are automatically referred to adult court, which jeopardizes students ability to put allegations of infractions behind them that shouldhave been dealt with at school, without police involvement, groups that filed thecomplaint say.

The Center for Public Integrity has investigated reports of questionable policetactics nationally inside schools, including incidents involving police in Californiaand Utah who rounded up students who w ere all Latino or black and had notbeen accused of any wrongdoing but who were interrogated, forced to pose formock mug shots and asked for information that was put into fil es.

North Carolina has already fallen under scrutiny because of complaints that blackstudents have been suspended at greater rates than white students for the same typesof infractions of school disciplinary policies, as the Center has reported.

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