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Alarming use of Tasers in public schools

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File: Taser International's X2 two-shot Taser for law enforcement is displayed at the National Shooting Sports Foundation's 34th annual Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade Show at the Sands Expo and Convention Center in January 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Taser International's X2 two-shot Taser for law enforcement is displayed at a recent trade show in Las Vegas.

In California and other parts of the nation, an increasing number of children are being Tasered by school-based police officers. 

In California and other parts of the nation, an increasing number of children are being Tasered by school-based police officers. 

Since 2011, at least 84 incidents between these officers and students have occurred, but not on a college campus ... it's happened at the K-12 level. 

That’s the assertion of a new report titled, Set to Stun, by the Huffington Post and the Hechinger Report, a non-profit news agency that covers education.

We talked to Rebecca Klein, she's the editor of education news for The Huffington Post.

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