-Caveat Lector- http://my.abcnews.go.com/PRINTERFRIENDLY?PAGE=http://abcsource.starwave.com/wire/US/ap20010403_817.html Charges dismissed against students who played with paper gun NEWARK, N.J. (AP) A judge dismissed charges Tuesday against two 8-year-old boys who had been accused of making terroristic threats for pointing paper guns at other students. Judge Peter V. Ryan agreed with prosecutors' recommendation to drop the charges against Hamadi Alston and Jaquill Shelton, of Irvington. Police said Hamadi stood up at his desk at the Augusta Street School on March 15, pointed a piece of paper folded to look like a gun at his classmates and said "I'm going to kill you all." Hamadi said he was imitating what Jaquill had done earlier that day. Under the school district's zero-tolerance policy on violence, school officials notified police, who questioned the boys for nearly five hours before filing charges. Hamadi's father called the charges an inappropriate reaction to recent school violence across the nation. "It was crazy," Ron Alston said. "You can't hurt nobody with a piece of paper." Irvington police and School Superintendent Ernest Smith did not return calls seeking comment. Representatives of several black organizations attended Tuesday's juvenile hearing to support the boys and said authorities need to be more prudent, despite school shootings elsewhere. "Now it seems that even the slightest thing may trigger someone to put the legal process into motion," said Lawrence Hamm, president of People's Organization for Progress. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
