Police Chief Changes Account in Shooting Death Of 15-Year-Old Jordan Edwards

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Sad tragedy here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b02655f840f923

[Jerry Oz]

It's open season on Black boys. This kid was just waiting in the principal's office when the resource officer decided to beat his ass. He choked him and knocked out a tooth before arresting him for resisting arrest. Thanks, Trump.

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Oh that is crazy! They'll tell you that you did not see everything that happened that led up to the altercation. I see a kid being manhandled.

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What the hell?

[Jerry Oz]

Woodland Hills student accuses school resource officer of punching teeth out
ELIZABETH BEHRMAN
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Lbehrman@post-gazette.com


12:00 AM
APR 6, 2017

In November, the principal of Woodland Hills High School was investigated for allegedly threatening to knock a student’s teeth down his throat.

On Wednesday, an attorney for a student at the same school accused the school resource officer of doing just that — striking a boy so hard that his front right tooth had to be sewn back into his mouth.

“Too much has happened at Woodland Hills High School in the past six months for this to be ignored,” said attorney Todd Hollis, who is representing the student he identified as Queshawn Wade, 14.

At a press conference Wednesday at his office downtown, Mr. Hollis sat next to the boy — who had a bruise on his face that he said was a remnant of Monday afternoon’s altercation — and outlined his version of events. The teen was questioned by Officer Steve Shaulis, a Churchill police officer stationed at the school, about a missing cell phone, Mr. Hollis said. The officer told the teen that the matter “would end up in court,” and the student exited the school office and walked back into the hallway. Officer Shaulis followed the student and used a derogatory term to describe him, Mr. Hollis said. The boy “responded in kind,” he said, and the officer then pulled him back into the office where he threw him against the wall and knocked him to the floor, striking him multiple times before eventually handcuffing him.

Mr. Hollis said he doesn’t know what the student was ultimately charged with, but that he was taken by ambulance from the school to UPMC Presbyterian, where his tooth was sewn back into his mouth. The boy, whose face was still swollen Wednesday, will need four more surgeries, he said.


“How hard does a person have to hit a child to knock their teeth completely out of their mouth?” Mr. Hollis said. “What does a child have to do to justify that response?”

“I don’t care about the phone,” he added. “This is a 14-year-old child. This is not a grown man. This is a school where we send our kids to.”
Churchill Interim Police Chief Roch Kujava referred all questions to the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office, which is investigating the incident. He did not say whether Officer Shaulis remains on duty and would not outline what charges the student faces.

Mike Manko, spokesman for District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr., also declined to detail any charges against the student because he is a juvenile.

“Our office is in receipt of the initial report from Churchill Police concerning this incident,” he said in a statement. “As is always the case when there is police use of force to effectuate an arrest, our office will review this incident and share that review with the FBI.”
Woodland Hills Superintendent Alan Johnson said he will also be conducting his own investigation into what happened.

“We certainly regret that the student was injured — that’s not what we want to ever see happen,” Mr. Johnson said. “Mr. Hollis made some serious allegations and I need to investigate them, and when we’ve done that we’ll have a statement to issue.”

In addition to accusing Officer Shaulis, Mr. Hollis said another unnamed officer and Principal Kevin Murray were present during the incident and did not intervene.

Mr. Murray was reinstated from paid leave in January, after the district attorney’s office declined to press charges after an audio recording surfaced of him threatening to punch a student and telling him he would “knock his ... teeth down his throat” during an incident in April 2016. Later, Mr. Murray told the student that if the matter were to go to court, his word would be believed over the student’s “every time.”

Attorney Phil DiLucente, who represents Mr. Murray, said his client was not aware of the altercation between Officer Shaulis and the student until after it happened.

“My client was not involved in the incident and casting his name in this light with respect to the alleged incident is not only inflammatory, but completely unnecessary and only done to damage his reputation,” Mr. DiLucente said in a statement.

But Mr. Hollis said both Officer Shaulis and the principal need to be permanently removed from the school because of their behavior.
“Where there’s smoke, there’s fire,” he said. “This tells me there’a problem at Woodland Hills High School that needs to be corrected.”

http://www.post-gazette.com/local/ea...ersion=pgevoke

[Jerry Oz]

Click the link above to see the gruesome severity of the boy's injury.
[QUOTE]4 Students Now Claim Abuse At Woodland Hills High School

By VIRGINIA ALVINO YOUNG • 1 HOUR AGO

• Woodland Hills school resource officer Steve Shaulis, of the Churchill Police Department, is captured in an altercation with a student on surveillance footage.
  SCREENGRAB / WOODLAND HILLS SURVEILLANCE VIDEO
  
  

More Woodland Hills High School students have come forward alleging abuse by a school principal and a school resource officer.
Four students are claiming abuse over the past two years, according to Pittsburgh Attorney Todd Hollis, who represents three of the students.
A 2015 surveillance video shows a student thrown to the ground by armed school resource officer Steve Shaulis, who works for the Churchill Police Department. The school’s principal, Kevin Murray, assisted Shaulis in holding the student down. The student was then Tasered.
A surveillance video, released this week, shows an altercation between a student and Shaulis, that concludes with him punching out a student’s tooth. The Allegheny County District Attorney’s office is currently investigating the incident and will share findings with federal investigators.
Hollis said other students and their families are considering lawsuits and that he believes more students have been Tasered, and will come forward.
“In a scenario like this, where you have one child that’s alleging abuse and within four months you’ve got three other kids, and most of them say the same thing – I doubt that this is an isolated event,” Hollis said.
Hollis said two of the students he represents have special needs.
“We want additional training,” Hollis said. “We want these individuals removed. We don’t ever want them around children, to have the opportunity to injure a kid, and we want a culture change.”
Woodland Hills Superintendent Alan Johnson said the principal and officer acted in accordance with protocol.
“Am I happy that we ended up in a physical confrontation with a student? No,” he said. “Obviously we never want to see that happen. Am I going to be so naïve to say there’s never going to be a physical confrontation? That’s gonna happen. It’ll happen again.”
But he said Woodland Hills High School has been taking steps to improve students’ outcomes.
“We know that in most urban high schools, ours included, students of color, particularly black males tend to get suspended at higher rates,” Johnson said. “They tend to be expelled more frequently, and that’s something we’ve known about for a long time.”
Johnson said before the allegations of abuse, the school district rewrote its code of conduct and began practicing restorative justice and cultural awareness training, but that training is limited to school staff, since resource officer work on a contracted basis for the district.
Johnson said suspensions and expulsions, especially for black students who make up 70 percent of the district's student population, are going down.[QUOTE]






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this is all so sick. These cops are depraved and criminal. The killing of Jordan Edwards is one of the saddest things I've heard in a while.