A 14-year-old special-education student who’d arrived at the school with a history of abuse and neglect, Cedric had been taken from his home five years earlier with his siblings.

He’d just been smothered by his teacher, police said, after she placed him in a “therapeutic floor hold” to keep him from struggling during a disagreement over lunch.
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A police officer that was assigned to Kankakee Junior High School is accused of using a Taser on several students during a demonstration.

Kankakee police said the officer used the weapon on at least three boys who volunteered to get shocked during a classroom demonstration, according to the Chicago Tribune.

“A cop came in and then he pulled out his Taser, and was like, I’m giving out free runs for the Taser to try it out,” 12-year-old Miles Maiden told ABC 7. “And then everybody was like I want to try it and I said I’ll try it in my finger and he was like, let me get you in your thigh.” Read the rest at www.nbcchicago.com/news

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