The Orange County Register reports:
ALISO VIEJO An 18-year-old student at Soka University of America has been coaxed out of his dorm room after hurtling furniture out a 4th-floor window and barricaded himself in the room for nearly four hours, sheriff's officials said.SWAT officers and crisis negotiators were stationed outside the teenager's dorm after he locked himself inside and refused to speak to anyone. The teenager eventually gave up to deputies just after 8 p.m., said Orange County Sheriff's Department spokesman Jim Amormino.
The student was reported to be suffering from psychiatric problems.
Soka University is closely affiliated with Soka Gakkai International, the scientology-like multibillion-dollar multinational religious corporation that claims to practice Nichiren Buddhism.
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Nor that I give a toss at a rolling donut, The Orange County Register, or Soku U. but the follow up reporting on the article, which read like they came from it, makes assumptions that the article does not. The student, in the article, was not reported to be suffering from anything but taken to a psychiatric ward for observation instead of jail.