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School Safety Officers. The title implies creating a safe environment for young people to learn and engage with each other. Except that in New York City, with School Safety under the NYC Police Department, these School Safety Officers enter the public schools the same way many police officers enter our neighborhoods, with an antagonistic attitude and thinking they are walking into a jungle whose residents they need to crush. Those residents happen to be our children.

Rojan Morgan is suing Hillcrest High School after he says several school safety agents assaulted him after he brought a cell phone to school.

“They took me to a back room, inside of the school and started to beat me,” Morgan said.

“When I came to the school I was ignored and shut out and that’s how this all started,” mother Trudyann Morgan said.

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