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Drug Sweep Principal Resigns

Jan 05, 2004 5:52 PM
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It's about freaking time. The principal who called in an absurdly excessive police raid on his own students (none of them arrested) has resigned due to deserved pressure.
Principal Resigns Over School Drug Raid

MONCKS CORNER, S.C. (AP) -- A high school principal announced his resignation Monday after coming under fire over a November drug sweep in which police with guns drawn ordered students to the floor.

"I realized it is in the best interest of Stratford High School and of my students for me to make a change," George McCrackin said in a statement.

School officials asked Goose Creek police to come into the school Nov. 5 after receiving reports of marijuana sales on campus. Police said dogs sniffed drug residue on 12 book bags but found no drugs. No one was arrested.

The raid led to allegations of excessive force and racism, because many of the students were black.

District Superintendent J. Chester Floyd said McCrackin will be reassigned to a still-undetermined position. But he said McCrackin will probably spend the coming weeks preparing for two lawsuits filed by students over the incident.
What a scumbag. I hope he gets buried in civil suits.

Props to my boy Goldie, who's an activist working with this community.

Comments: Drug Sweep Principal Resigns

Perhaps you didn't read the whole story. It was possibly marijuana, and you know the reefer madness makes people itchy to kill. I think a little bit of hysteria is no big deal when combating the hardend criminals that pot turns out.

Posted by: David Kearns on January 5, 2004 6:01 PM | permalink

Yes, high school kids allegedly smoking pot definitely merits a guns-drawn raid ... you never know when they might pull out a cigarette lighter or something.

Posted by: Joe Grossberg on January 5, 2004 7:08 PM | permalink

OT, but I love how you're allowed to bring lighters on airplanes, but not screwdrivers (regardless of type or size). I've actually had a philips head screwdriver confiscated from me at the gate (maybe about a month after 9/11, in fucking Ohio of all places), but they didn't bother with the lighter.

Posted by: Bob Ippolito on January 5, 2004 8:30 PM | permalink

I've heard (I think Michael Moore may deserve the hat tip for this one) that the reason why lighters weren't banned was because of the tobacco industry's influence.

Posted by: Joe Grossberg on January 5, 2004 10:36 PM | permalink

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