Are school security guards too hard-assed, and sometimes racist to boot? Or are they usually just dealing with reality? More today on a recent controversy near Seattle, from the King County Journal.

The three black students in the Kent schools and the Seattle chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People made a $10 million claim against the district, alleging physical and psychological abuse by security officers, behavior that they believe is supported by Kent administrators. The NAACP claims the three students were slammed into lockers, kneed in the back, pepper sprayed and handcuffed.

NAACP chapter President Carl Mack acknowledged that the three students had other disciplinary actions in the past, but he said the district has not responded to his request for information on how many times students have been handcuffed in the district.

The district denies the accusations, saying the students were not mistreated, but late last week declined an invitation to have the three security guards in question talk about their actions.

While not commenting specifically on the claim against the Kent district, Chuck Lind, senior deputy prosecuting attorney with King County who handles juvenile cases, said parents would be 'shocked' at the types of assaults by students on teachers in schools and even school officers.

'The type of violence within public schools and the level of behavior that is treated as acceptable would surprise the public if they were aware of it,' Lind said.

Posted by Matt Rosenberg at March 8, 2004 04:12 PM

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