The Daily Kos has the article The Truth about the Spring Valley “Officer Slam” Assault on a Teen Girl.

Not many news agencies have reported, or even wondered why she was asked to leave in the first place. As it turns out she had momentarily looked at her phone during class, and apologized for it at the time. Nor have they wondered why the phone issue, which she had already put away, escalated to an administrator and then the now fired school resource officer who had a reputation around the campus as “Officer Slam” for his tendency to throw students to the ground, assaulted her in the first place.

Is this the kind of thing that the parents in Sturbridge wanted or expected when they supported having a School Resource Officer on the premises of our schools? Now that they know, will any minds be changed about the appropriateness of an untrained police presence in our schools?

PC World has the article US Army tests swarms of drones in major exercise.

Their use on the battlefield raises the stakes in the push to detect, spot and control drone flight.

“This is a first step toward a continuing saga, trying to stay ahead of the bad guys,” said Hatchett. “We have much to do but we are now out of the blocks and moving forward.”

<sarcasm>It’s nice to know that gun control is now the least of our problems</sarcasm>