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Insane! Armed Cops Terrify Kids in Unannounced Active Shooter Drill
An unannounced “active shooter drill” at a Florida middle school left teachers and students frightened and confused, and has angered parents who say police and administrators terrified their children.
The Thursday morning drill at Jewett Middle Academy in Winter Haven began when the school principal announced the school was going on lockdown. Winter Haven police officers then burst into classrooms brandishing guns, including an unloaded AR-15 rifle, to check on students huddled in the dark. Teachers were also clueless a drill was taking place.
“All of sudden there was a gun barrel,” 8th-grader Xavier Tate told “Fox & Friends”Sunday, describing what he saw from his classroom. “We didn’t know it was a drill. We thought it was a gunman (coming) right through the door.”
“It was very scary,” he said.
“All of sudden there was a gun barrel.”
– Xavier Tate, Jewett Academy student
His mother Cherrise Tate told the show it is unbelievable they were calling it a drill.
“When a friend called and told us there was a shooter at the school my husband…raced to get to the school,” she said. “He was so afraid. All he could see was Columbine.”
Seventh-grader Lauren Marionneaux told MyFox Tampa Bay that a lot of people started getting scared because they thought it was a real situation. We actually thought that someone was going to come in there and kill us,” she said, adding that she was so scared she texted her mother, Stacy Ray.
“I’m panicking because I’m thinking that it’s a legitimate shooter coming, that something bad is happening at the school,” said Ray, who said she also got frightened texts from her other children. One of those texts read: “I thought he was going to shoot me.”
The school informed parents of the drill afterward. A spokesman for the Polk County Schools told MyFox Tampa Bay that it’s standard procedure for these types of drills to take place without giving parents, students or teachers advanced warning. In a statement the school district said “we regret any concern that parents and students might have experienced.”
Winter Haven Police Chief Charlie Bird also defended the drill, saying, “it really is to protect the children.”
On Friday Bird announced that future lockdown drills will be conducted by uniformed officers without weapons.
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every single commanding officer in that station needs to be fired, and the school administrators.
PROSECUTE AND PUT EVERYONE OF THE PEOPLE IN JAIL AND FIRE THE ONES AT THE TOP AND JAIL THEM TOO
lawsuit time! Take every f’n million from the school, city, police, and the state! Make them bleed money for years to come! But, no. Nothing will come of it, and they will do it again, and again. This isn’t the first time we’ve heard this! Time and time again! People, you mean nothing to them! You playthings are just fodder for their amusement!
The sad part is Winter Haven Police Chief Charlie Bird probably actually believes that “it really is to protect the children.” The police departments are full of dim-witted sh|theads like that guy.
They do it because the federal funding tells them to. Local police federal funding comes with “guidelines” that say they don’t get the money unless the police go in and terrorize little children in the schools.
And another thing. This morning international TV news reported a similar incident in Kenya where men with guns stormed some building in an apparent drill without notifying anyone beforehand. More than a dozen people were injured when they jumped out of windows trying to escape the gunmen. One man will never walk again and one woman died.
So we have two terror drills without any announcement happening on opposite sides of the planet within the same week. Coincidence? You decide.
State terrorism.
TERRORISM !!
If an armed citizen shoots one of these cops during an unannounced “drill”, I hope they put me on the jury.
I guess the bosses discovered that if you announce a drill (like Sandy Hook) and let everyone in on the plans – that eventually you’ll be found out; and lose the chance to take advantage of the “crisis”.