Boy's mother, ACLU want answers in Reno campus shooting

RENO, Nev. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada joined those pressing school district officials in Reno Thursday for more information about the circumstances and policies that led to a campus officer shooting a 14-year-old boy in a high school courtyard a week ago.

Cheryl Pitchford, the mother of the hospitalized boy, was among 100 of his classmates, friends and family who marched to Washoe County School District headquarters on Wednesday to deliver a petition demanding all campus police carry Tasers and pepper spray.

Reno police say the boy was threatening others with knives when a school district officer shot him in the chest Dec. 7 while surrounded by dozens of students.

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