Two masked men wearing hoodies and wielding handguns burst into the Pine Eagle Charter School in this tiny rural community on Friday. Students were at home for an in-service day, so the gunmen headed into a meeting room full of teachers and opened fire.The Reddit thread discusses what might have happened had one of the "victim" teachers responded with lethal force.
Someone figured out in a few seconds that the bullets were not drawing blood because they were blanks and the exercise was a drill, designed to test Pine Eagle's preparation for an assault by "active shooters" who were, in reality, members of the school staff. But those few seconds left everybody plenty scared.
Principal Cammie DeCastro said it became clear very quickly just how many of the school's 15 teachers would have survived. The answer: "Not many," she said.
Meanwhile, in Virginia plainclothes police officers try to apprehend a female student. She resists...
On April 11, Elizabeth Daly bought a carton of sparkling water, cookie dough and ice cream at a Charlottesville store. She drove off when she was confronted by plainclothes ABC agents after they suspected the 20-year-old of purchasing beer... The woman was charged with two felonies after she attempted to flee the agents.They later dropped the charges, but had she run over them while driving away, I would have given her the benefit of doubt for fleeing a possible attempted rape/carjacking.
"They later dropped the charges, but had she run over them while driving away, I would have given her the benefit of doubt for fleeing a possible attempted rape/carjacking."
ReplyDeleteGood thing they didn't "stand their ground" or we'd be talking about a dead girl.
I drive to the police station when an unmarked policecar attempts to pull me over... well only did it twice, once they instantly understood what my waving meant and the other time they got all excitied roared up next to me demanded I stop an I told them I would at the station, the officer was a little upset but told me iit was actually a good ideaon reflection (traffic warning only each time).
ReplyDeletePolice also can't stop you and inspect packages you just bought at a store without probable cause... what we're those police thinking with that young lady?
We had a similar incident here in San Diego recently. They ended up shooting the woman dead.
ReplyDeletePlain Clothes US Border Patrol officers swooped in on an apartment to arrest a guy on a warrant. A woman there panicked and tried to drive off. An office jumped on the hood of her car. She took off, so he pumped 9 bullets in to her.
Here is the thing. They were plainclothes, screaming in English to native Spanish speakers. She had no idea who the where, what they wanted. They weren't near the border. From her perspective, a bunch of thugs show up waving guns around. She thinks kidnappers, drug cartel attack, robbers, who knows?
The articles in the papers fail to mention that they were plainclothes. One time the local paper let that fact slip. Then they forget to mention it ever again.
Really? They were going in plainclothes with weapons in to an unknown situation in a bad neighborhood to arrest a problem guy. What in the hell did they think was going to happen?
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/May/21/border-patrol-wrongful-death-suit/
"They later dropped the charges, but had she run over them while driving away, I would have given her the benefit of doubt for fleeing a possible attempted rape/carjacking."
ReplyDeleteI would have given her a medal.
A reasonably competent veteran of the Combat Arms who happened to be on scene might have broken somebody's neck.
ReplyDeleteHow many kids needed new undies?
It seems public ed is a sink for the dumbest among us.