Monday, April 9, 2012

Junior High Students Pepper-Sprayed for Dawdling Between Classes « Student Activism

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Junior High Students Pepper-Sprayed for Dawdling Between Classes

At least three young people were treated at a local hospital Thursday when a police officer working the hallways at Jack Robey Junior High School in Pine Bluff Arkansas pepper-sprayed a group of students returning from lunch.
School superintendent Jerry Payne told the Associated Press that the officer used the spray because, in AP’s paraphrase, “students weren’