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This is terrorism.

“While teaching a class to high school students on Wednesday, Burlington police officers staged a surprise demonstration in which a masked gunman burst into the room and pretended to open fire.”

Burlington Police Terrified High School Students With Mock Shootingm.sevendaysvt.com Updated at 2:31 p.m. While teaching a class to high school students on Wednesday, Burlington police officers staged a surprise demonstration in which a masked...

Everyone involved should be fired. Police, school administrators who agreed to this... Everyone.

The next school board meeting, and every one after that until the next election would be a DOOZY

I'd like to see some lawsuits.

Doesn't happen often enough in the eyes of the police, eh? 😵‍💫

I would like to see some consequences for this poor decision making.

Absofuckinglutely

It does sound like the chips thought the students knew about it. The school was supposed to tell but forgot.

Just realized after mocking their spelling I called the cops chips... Duck you predictive keyboard.

100%. Absolutely cruel and inhuman behavior. Is there any legal recourse for students &/or parents?

Is the lesson children don't matter?

How…how does this equal not real?

Given Uvalde, it's definitely real for them to not intervene

This part stuck out to me, too. Even when they *stage* a crime they’re *still* incapable of showing us that they can and will protect people.

If one of those kids cracked the fake shooter with a chair, what would have happened?

This is terrorism.

If my neighbors and former colleagues saw this skeet, I would be the terrorist.

Yep

my god

"The students realized it was fake only after noticing that the cops in the room had done nothing to stop the pretend shooter, they said." I've got bad news for some naïve and trusting kids.

376 of them. I'm never going to forget that. If an armed person showed up and went after the shooter, the police would have stopped them. Take as much time as you like to think that over.

Terrorism has a political purpose. This seems more like terror for its own sake, for the titillation of the cops. Sadism, IOW.

The purpose is always to give greater funding and power to police

Always. But could they actually think that scaring the shit out of school kids is going to serve that purpose?

I don't know if it works, but scaring people so they'll support police nonsense (or buy guns) is well-established. Infuriates me.

Making them scared of criminals, sure. But making them scared of cops?

I'm sure that wasn't their intention but I'm not sure that's a bad outcome, given what I keep seeing of cops. It's an outrageous thing to do, but I've seen bad self defense teachers pull similar bullshit. Scaring people is a terrible approach to teaching people how to pay attention to real dangers.

The terminology got changed. When I was starting grad school we divided it up into terror, what states do, & terrorism, what non-state actors do. The former used violence, threats of violence, fear, & intimidation to establish reflexive systems of control. To lock the populace into compliance. 1/

This is a form of what we would have called (state) terror back in the early to late 90s. In this case, scaring segments of the populace into conforming without having to be instructed. I never really understood why the nomenclature changed, but I left academia and didn't need to worry about it. end

Jesus fucking christ!

Remembering that time my driver's ed teacher wanted to communicate the importance of wearing a seatbelt, so they had a friend of theirs run me off the road into a ravine.

Omg

That didn't happen, I was being sarcastic.

Oh. Ha ha. I took driver's Ed in Texas and this is not far from my experience.

what the actual fuck

There is no good explanation for this. Every single person involved should be fired, immediately.

Who on earth thought a "surprise demonstration" at a school would be a good idea? More traumatised kids.

It figures that cops can't spell.

Typical cop backpedaling too. If you are in a bank and a guy comes in with a gun and starts shooting, does it make you feel any better that it wasn't directed at you?

according to @jasonkirk.fyi they used to do this in evangelical schools after 9/11

Before

oh shit

Not just terrorism. State sponsored terrorism.

Just another normal day in a totally normal country

I cannot fathom the disconnect these people must have from reality. That THIS is the solution and not better gun control. (Or any gun control at all)

Holy f*ck

In what world is this a good idea?

Why would anyone assume this?

I don't think ACAB is strong enough for this one holy shit

Omfg! This is my childhood place, my nephews went to school here! Wtf is happening?

That is appalling.

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