SWAT Team 'War on Kids'

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Full-length documentary on a SWAT Team raid on a South Carolina High School, because the Head 'thought' drugs were being dealt. 107 students locked in hall, forced to lie on ground, some to kneel, some were handcuffed, all this under barked orders and under drawn guns, some thrown to the floor.
No drugs were found, not even a cigerrette.
Though the school was predominantly white, the great majority of those caught in the hall, or ordered into the hall, were black:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-tAQ56-gaA

Here is the result, looks like an out-of-court settlement, but I don't know what happened, or is happening, to a seperate 20-student case:

http://bankrupt.com/CAR_Public/060406.mbx

SOUTH CAROLINA: Settlement Reached in High School Drug Raid Suit
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A preliminary settlement amounting to $1.6 million has been
reached in a class action arising from the 2003 drug raid at
Stratford High School, The Post and Courier reports.

In 2004, The Goose Creek Police Department faced a federal
lawsuit filed by parents of students at Stratford High School,
alleging that their children were terrorized by armed police and
drug-sniffing dogs during a search at the school. The suit also
named as defendant the Berkeley County School system.

On November 5, 2003, a surprise commando-style drug raid was
conducted on 107 Stratford High students. A widely televised
surveillance tape of the raid showed police with guns drawn,
handcuffing students with plastic cuffs and ordering them not to
move while officers and dogs searched them. No drugs or weapons
were found and no arrests were made.

The suit is pending in the U.S. District Court in Charleston,
South Carolina, on behalf of 20 Stratford High students aged 14
to 18, charging police and school officials with:

(1) violating the students' constitutional rights by
conducting an illegal search and seizure,

(2) using excessive force,

(3) committing assault and battery, and

(4) subjecting students to false imprisonment.

Under the settlement, students who were in the hallway during
the incident, and students who were brought into the hall and
searched, would be eligible for compensation. They would share
$1,175,000, with an additional $25,000 put into a medical
compensation fund for students who sought medical or
psychological treatment. Eleven attorneys would split $400,000.

The defendants will not admit wrongdoing but will agree to
change policies and undergo training in appropriate search
procedures.

The settlement will be funded by:
Contribution
Berkeley County School District $50,000
Zurich North America Insurance Co. $500,000
The City of Goose Creek $60,000
S.C. Municipal Insurance Risk Financing Fund $990,000

The American Civil Liberties Union represents the plaintiffs.
Lead lawyers were Fritz Jekel and Marlon Kimpson, both of Motley
Rice LLC -- http://www.motleyrice.com/-- and Gregg Meyers, 39
Broad Street, Suite 300, Charleston, South Carolina 29401,
(Berkeley & Charleston Cos.), Phone: 843-720-8714; Fax: 843-720-
8704.