Storm Trooper Raid of SC High School - Update

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I know this was a big story here when it happened, so if this info has already been posted, apologies.

That school raid, the video shown on several national media outlets, is one of two incidents in the news article below. A shoplifter from a local grocery store was shot to death by police a few days after the shcool raid.

Locally, the stories have kind of melded into one police v. citizens mega-story, and now the FBI are looking at both incidents. As well, there was a march today from the shoplifter killing site to North Charleston City Hall. Though the main focus of that march was to protest the shooting of the shoplifter, the Stratford HS raid was also addressed. There will be another march in December adressing both incidents and Jesse Jackson will take part in that march.

From the local paper (registration required, unless you hit the "stop" button on your browser after the story displays but before the registration page replaces it).




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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has begun a preliminary investigation of both the recent Stratford High School drug raid in Goose Creek and the shooting death of a man by North Charleston police earlier this month, officials confirmed Friday.


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Goose Creek police officers stormed Stratford High School with guns drawn in an attempted drug raid early on Nov. 5. The scene was caught on the school's video cameras, sparking a national outcry against the department's use of force. In addition, some people expressed concern that black students were targeted.

In an unrelated incident two days later, North Charleston police officers shot and killed 41-year-old Asberry Wylder on Rivers Avenue during Friday afternoon rush hour after Wylder shoplifted some meat from a grocery store and reportedly attempted to rob another business. While several witnesses claimed Wylder, a black man, was shot a second time after being handcuffed and beaten, North Charleston police denied that and said he was shot twice after he stabbed an officer with a knife. The officer wore a protective vest and was not injured.

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Jackson is currently organizing a protest march for December in regard to both incidents, and he plans to attend, Johnson said.
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http://charleston.net/stories/112203/loc_22fbi2.shtml

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1. Thanks for posting.....

I'm glad to see there are people willing to stand up to these police-state tactics....

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2. Thanks, I hadn't seen this