Los Angeles school police citations draw federal scrutiny
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Vanessa Romo/KPCC.org Students protest in Los Angeles against school police tickets issued heavily at middle schools, low-income schools. A.J. and a friend had gotten into a physical altercation over a basketball game, and school staff had summoned not parents, but police officers. Neither boy was injured, and the school ended up suspending his son for only one day, Johnson said. But officers wrote up a court citation and decided, on the spot, to also handcuff and
