Parents of Stratfod High School students and civil rights leaders including Jesse Jackson met in South Carolina today to protest the potentially deadly situation created in November when local police swarmed into the school with guns drawn in a search for drugs. However, spokesmen for the police sought once again to alleviate parents' fears by assuring them that all officers involved in the raid were safe and unharmed.

Acting swiftly on third-person heresay evidence that a small amount

Jesse Jackson expresses his approval as an officer demonstrates the proper technique used to subdue frightened, unarmed 11-year-olds.

of marijuana might be present in the school, heavily armed officers of the local police force were deployed in a tactical sweep to enforce the schools "zero tolerence" drug policy.

Officers involved in the heroic raid were baffled by the level of fear demonsrated by the local community.

"It was no big deal really," says Officer Charles Halstead, "I mean, they're just a bunch of school kids and we're big cops with body armor and assault weapons." Although heartened by the concern demonstrated by the community he says that at no time did he feel threatened or that his life was endangered by the handcuffed children as they lay on the floor.

In another drug enforcement incident last month, police took no chances by gunning down the entire 7th grade class of Martin Luther King Junior High in Oxbow Creek, Missippi. Lt. Calli of the Oxbow Police said the raid is just the first example of what's being labelled the "Sub-Zero Tolerence Policy" in the escalating war to stop drugs from entering American schools.

Calli called the raid a "100% success!," citing that not a single officer was harmed and assured parents of the 7th graders that their children's classrooms were now "completely safe and drug free."