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Friday, January 26, 2007
What Happened At School Today? Nothing, I Just Got Pepper-Sprayed
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
More than two-dozen Mount Zion High School students were treated for exposure to pepper spray after a school resource officer used the incapacitating chemical on an unruly classmate during lunch yesterday.
According to our account of the incident, the officer pulled out the spray after a student grabbed him as he was trying to break up a fight among a gaggle of girls. Shortly thereafter, 29 kids had to be treated for burning eyes and itchy throats.
Last semester, another Clayton County resource officer Tasered a kid at Jonesboro Middle School in order to stop a fight at that campus.
Now, I can’t really claim to know whether it’s better being sprayed or shocked, but is it too much to expect school-based officers to break up fistfights without resorting to weapons?
