Day: April 8, 2009

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Resource officer uses taser on student

LAKELAND – A Lakeland police officer said he had no other choice than to use his Taser on a 13-year-old student at Southwest Middle School.

According to the arrest report, student Unique Young had been removed from class for acting up. However, she refused to sit in the office and wait for her parents to come pick her up.

The school’s resource officer, Edward Lori, was alerted of Young’s refusal to wait in the front office. The police report says Lori joined the confrontation between Young and the dean of students in the hallway of the school. Continue reading “Resource officer uses taser on student”

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When you’ve had a shotgun pushed in your face by your stepfather at age 5, a slumping stock market isn’t the worst thing you’ve had to overcome.

So while Chris Gardner talks to an Omaha audience next month about his year as a homeless single father – as Will Smith portrayed him in the 2006 movie “The Pursuit of Happyness” – you can understand that he has some experience in breaking destructive patterns in life.

Family violence is one. Fear is another. Waiting for help from others is yet another. Continue reading “”