Bump and Update: Now the school says it asked for the raid but had no idea the police would draw their weapons.

The ACLU says the execution of the raid was illegal:

Graham Boyd, director of the drug policy project for the American Civil Liberties Union [said], "You absolutely cannot bring police with guns drawn into a school." Boyd said police must suspect individual students of drug activity, then any action taken must target those suspects. He said investigators should have called individual suspected students to the principal's office to check their bags for drugs.

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Original Post, 11/7 3:20 pm

This is inexcusable. If it happened at the high school our kid attended, we would have been up in arms.

Fourteen cops, some with guns drawns, raided a South Carolina high school searching for.....marijuana. To top it off, they didn't find any.

Surveillance video from Stratford High School in Goose Creek shows 14 officers, some with guns drawn, ordering students to lie the ground as police searched for marijuana. Students who didn't comply with the orders quickly enough were reportedly handcuffed. Police didn't find any criminals in the armed sweep, but they say search dogs smelled drugs on a dozen backpacks.

Whoever ordered this raid should be fired. And if the principal agreed to it, he or she should go as well.