Brickbats.

• Author: Oliver, Charles
• Position: Current events

It was bad enough that a man crashed his car into Aaron Shelton's yard. It was even worse when the Hamilton County. Tennessee, sheriffs deputies pursuing the driver tackled Shelton to the ground and beat him with their batons even as he and his wife tried to explain that Shelton was not the man they were looking for--indeed, that he was a fellow deputy. After his coworkers realized their mistake, Shelton says they tried to keep him quiet, telling him they were "all brothers, man."

An officer in Wiltshire, England, told a newsstand owner to give him the names of customers who bought the "survivors" issue Charlie Hebdo, published after the attack on the publication's offices. The department subsequently said the officer will face no disciplinary measures, but it did apologize and delete the information from its system.

A teacher at Ranson Middle School in Charlotte, North Carolina, forced several students to return home on a cold day without theircoats.The teacher took the coats because they did not match the school's required colors.

Charley Cadac is 6 years old. She's 4 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 60 pounds, for which the school nurse at Palm Beach Gardens Elementary School in Florida sent home a letter saying she is overweight. The school system says the letter was part of a state-mandated program to monitor child obesity.

Sweden's resettlement assistants are supposed to help immigrants learn the language, assist them in filling out paperwork, and generally help them fit into Swedish society. The government suspects that many of them instead were recruiting people to...