Principal intervenes in skirmish, gets arrested

A student at a New York City high school has been accused of punching a safety officer and the school's principal, who tried to intervene, has been charged with obstructing government activity and resisting arrest. For years, parents and principals have claimed that some cases in which students were being arrested for misconduct were simply behavior problems that should have been handled by school officials. The New York City Civil Liberties Union says it has received hundreds of complaints from students and teachers about rough treatment of students and unwarranted arrests by some of the nearly 5,000 school safety agents.

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