Florida Cops Terrify Students With Unannounced Active Shooter Drill
The principal of the Jewett Middle Academy in Polk County, Florida announced a lockdown last week with no further explanation.Tampa’s Fox 13 reports:
Students huddled into classrooms waiting for further instructions. Instead, they started hearing voices in the hallway.
“A lot of people started getting scared because we thought it was a real drill,” Lauren said. “We actually thought that someone was going to come in there and kill us.”
Two police officers burst into Lauren’s classroom with their guns drawn — one carrying, what Winter Haven police said, was an AR-15 rifle…The school sent an email out after the exercise, called a “lockdown active shooter drill,” to let parents know it had taken place.
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This did not go over well with students or parents.
Parents were reportedly furious, prompting the local police to re-evaluate its standard procedure for such drills. “Further lock-down drills that occur at schools within the city limits of Winter Haven will be performed by uniformed officers without weapons,” the department later announced.[su_csky_ad]
fahvel November 17th, 2014 at 1:04 pm
the level of paranoia in the usa with its cameras and gun toters and this crap is beyond anything with the word reason attached. What the hell is wrong with these terrified whimpering people?
Carla Akins November 17th, 2014 at 1:51 pm
A well practiced plan saves lives. However, terrifying children and enraging their parents, not such a good idea.
Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" November 17th, 2014 at 3:08 pm
although I agree, the element of surprise and realism will help determine where things go wrong, and how to further develop emergency plans.
Kim Serrahn November 17th, 2014 at 1:06 pm
I see the cops started thinking again, NOT……
Bunya November 17th, 2014 at 1:50 pm
The next recipient of this surprise drill; the Shady Acres Retirement Home.
Anomaly 100 November 17th, 2014 at 2:02 pm
USA! USA! USA!
FrankenPC . November 17th, 2014 at 2:18 pm
“Everything’s all right people! This was a fake police brutality drill!”
Larry Schmitt November 17th, 2014 at 2:31 pm
More proof, as if we needed it, that common sense is anything but.
Suzanne McFly November 17th, 2014 at 2:40 pm
Great society we have created. We terrorize our students to prepare them for a possible shooting to take place in their school. Who sees this as progress?
Suzanne McFly November 17th, 2014 at 2:40 pm
Great society we have created. We terrorize our students to prepare them for a possible shooting to take place in their school. Who sees this as progress?