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One small-town Minnesota school district is taking a unique approach to keeping students safe: The police are moving in. In Jordan, south of Minneapolis, officials looking at school security after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut decided the police would set up satellite offices in public schools. Officers will conduct some of their daily work from the schools, including taking calls and filling out paperwork, while still going out into the community to patrol or respond to emergencies.

Police showed up in riot gear to control a huge crowd trying to register for summer school in Hawthorne Monday.

Amateur video shows a number of police officers gathered at the Opportunities For Learning Public Charter School (OFLPCS) campus Monday.

Police said while many people were upset that registration was canceled, everyone left peacefully.

Real News @ http://RevolutionNews.US — Calif. Police Chief Ken James argues that a gun is not a "defensive weapon" but rather an "offensive weapon used to intimidate and used to show power."

"One issue that always boggles my mind is that the idea that a gun is a defensive weapon," he said. "That is a myth. A gun is not a defensive weapon."

Hunter Spanjer is 3 1/2 years old and is deaf. He signs his name and school officials think the signing of his name looks like a weapon so they want him to change it.

Daily News @ http://RevolutionNews.US ~ Police arrest an Albuquerque middle school teacher after finding 20 pounds of marijuana at her house. Police say their investigation started after the teacher's own son was arrested for having pot on a middle school campus.

There were also reports that student was selling pot at school.

A concerned citizen actually tipped off police, saying that student's mother, an APS teacher, was growing pot at her home....

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At 7 a.m. on Monday, the 16 year-old mixed some common household chemicals in a small 8 oz water bottle on the grounds of Bartow High School in Bartow, Florida. The reaction caused a small explosion that caused the top to pop up and produced some smoke. No one was hurt and no damage was caused. After the explosion Wilmot was taken into custody by a school resources officer and charged with possession/discharge of a weapon on school grounds and discharging a destructive device. She will be tried as an adult. She was then taken to a juvenile assessment center.

The boy had no weapon in his hand, his hands were in the air when he got shot 8 times.

A police spokesperson said the weapon turned out to be a BB-gun, but added that police acted appropriately because toy guns are often indistinguishable from a real weapon

A 34-year-old Texas mother was arrested after police say she put PCP, also known as “angel dust”, in her 6-year-old daughter’s school lunch, according to the arrest affidavit. Police say on May 4, the girl began to exhibit behavior consistent with a person under the influence of narcotics at her elementary school. The girl said she could hear “banging in her head,” and was talking to people who were not there. The girl’s school counselor called her mother, Torina Gutierrez, and reported the incident to her, the arrest affidavit states.

Indiana Bill allows school bureaucrats to punish students for actions, statements, and activities outside of school hours, outside of school boundaries, and outside of school concerns.