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Officer Hospitalized After Attack By Group of Students

Posted on: Friday, 17 February 2006, 12:01 CST

By Karina Ioffee, The Record, Stockton, Calif.

Feb. 17--STOCKTON - A police officer was taken to a hospital Thursday afternoon after a group of high school students attacked him just as school was getting out for the day, according to the Stockton Police Department.

A school resource officer at Ronald E. McNair High School was jumped after he tried to arrest a female student who had gotten into a fight, police said. As the officer tried to handcuff the girl, she fought him and had to be subdued on the ground, said Officer Pete Smith, a police spokesman. At that moment, a crowd gathered, and four students jumped on the officer, Smith said.

The officer, whose identity is not being released by police, sustained a knee injury and was taken to San Joaquin General Hospital around 3 p.m., Smith said.

Lodi Unified School District officials did not return calls seeking comment Thursday afternoon.

A second officer who was responding to the fight also was taken to the same hospital after she her patrol car crashed near West and Hammer lanes, police said. Her injuries were not immediately known, and both officers are expected to remain off-duty for at least two days, police said.

Eight students were arrested in connection with the fight on charges including battery on an officer, lynching and resisting arrest, according to police.

McNair opened in September and is one of numerous high schools in the Lodi and Stockton unified school districts that have police officers assigned to campuses.

Contact reporter Karina Ioffee at (209) 546-8279 or kioffee@recordnet.com

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