ABSTRACT
On November 5, 2003, a drug sweep at South Carolina’s Stratford High School had the American public questioning police tactics. Surveillance video from Stratford High School showed 14 o cers ordering students to lie on the ground while police searched for illegal drugs. Students who did not comply with the orders were handcu ed and taken to the ground. Police, with weapons drawn, walked around and over them, while drug-sni ng dogs stuck their noses in and out of book bags. “I froze up,” reported a student. “I didn’t know what to do. I fell on the ground. Everybody thought it was a terrorist attack” (Leach 2003).
