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Rhode Island: School Resource Officer Shown on Video Tackling Student

HeadlineOct 20, 2015

And in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, city and state police say they will investigate a school resource officer’s tackling of a 14-year-old high school student. Eight teenagers and two adults were arrested Thursday after gathering to protest the tackling. Cellphone video shows one student lying face-down on the floor as an officer grabs a second student around the neck and slams him down.

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