Mother: Class kept going after teacher fired gun, injuring 3

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

SAN FRANCISCO — A teacher at a Northern California high school accidentally fired his gun inside a classroom, causing minor injuries to three students, but kept teaching while the students sat there, the mother of one of the students said Wednesday.

Dennis Alexander, a reserve police officer, was pointing the gun at the ceiling Tuesday to make sure it was not loaded when it discharged inside his classroom at Seaside High School in the coastal community of Seaside, police said.

Police said no one sustained serious injuries.

Alexander was not authorized to have a gun on campus, Monterey Peninsula Unified School District spokeswoman Marci McFadden said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mother-class-kept-going-after-teacher-fired-gun-injuring-3/ar-BBKcd2H?ocid=spartandhp

[MineralMan]

1. That teacher should be arrested and charged.

He broke the law by bringing an unauthorized firearm into that classroom, where his stupidity and ego caused it to be fired, injuring students. He should be sitting in the county jail right now, waiting for a criminal court appearance.

[safeinOhio]

2. As my ex, the cop use to say...

who's going to arrest me, I'm a cop

[MineralMan]

4. Cops can, and do, arrest other cops.

That's who.

[safeinOhio]

5. Another term she used a lot

Professional Courtesy

[MineralMan]

6. Also false.

The "Thin Blue Line" is bullshit. Until that concept goes away, we will continue to suffer from bad cops. It's time for that line to be crossed on a regular basis.

[safeinOhio]

11. Only about 5% of cops respect the law. I was married to one and

found that to be true. It is a violation of their oath of office and the Constitution.
Here is the opinion of a cop that does respect the law.

Then there are a lonely few who see the practice of professional courtesy as unethical. A Jim Geeting posted the following on Officer.com:

"I am a strong believer that we are being neither professional nor courteous when we give a slide solely because the driver is an off duty cop or one of the many other categories [a previous poster] mentioned he felt deserved special treatment. Why stop there? Why not school teachers, plumbers, babysitters, lawyers, accountants, the guy who owns the McDonalds franchise down the street, Wal Mart clerks, and on and on. The law is not ours to give away. ... to give a free pass; solely and exclusively due to one's profession and nothing else, when others who chose other career paths would get hammered, is not only cheesy, it's corrupt by definition. ..."

[MineralMan]

13. In most places, we elect the District Attorney or equivalent person.

In almost all of this country, it is that official in each county who decides who will be prosecuted and who will not. We elect those people. We should pay better attention to who we elect. It makes an enormous difference. This is why we have elections. This is why we must exercise our right to vote in EVERY election, not just in presidential election years.

If we cede our control of our own government, then we must share in the blame when things go wrong. It's a simple equation.

I do not understand why we fail to vote. It is a shame on all of us if we do not. It is not our government unless we participate.

[safeinOhio]

14. Agree 100%

Same for the Sheriff and the Mayors that hire and are responsible for the actions of cops. They have the most to lose from lawsuits against their officers. They know this.


I saw her boss, the Sheriff and he asked me why I moved out of state. I told him she said "as a professional courtesy, her friends would pull me over and harass me". The Sheriff told me "not in my department", he then handed me his business card and wrote his home number on the back and said if I got pulled over in his county to call him and both would be fired. I stayed out of the county and he ended up getting rid of her anyway.

The Sheriff has a PHD and is a very good guy.

[riversedge]

8. This new CA law will be meaningless if no charges are brought.....

....A law that took effect in California on Jan. 1 halted the ability of school districts to allow non-security employees to carry guns on campus.

[MineralMan]

9. Yes. That teacher broke the law.

Arrest him. Charge him. Try him.

It's so freaking simple. Why we don't do those simple things, I do not understand.

[riversedge]

10. I do not understand either:-(

[SoCalMusicLover]

3. I'm Sure The NRA Will Hire Him After He's Fired

They always stand by their supporters.

[riversedge]

7. says it was the family that filed a police report!! Didn't anyone at the school hear the shot?

Alexander was teaching a gun safety lesson in an administration of justice class and was about to show the students how to disarm someone when the gun fired, Gonzales said.

Gonzales said the incident happened Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. and that she did not hear about it until her son called her hours later when the class ended and went to a relative's home.

As the boy's parents rushed him to a hospital for X-rays, she said the school's principal called her cellphone to apologize.

The teen is fine, though he's still shaken up and stayed home Wednesday, his mother said.

Gonzales said police didn't arrive at the school to investigate until three hours later and the family filed a police report.

[safeinOhio]

12. My town

Happened a few days ago. The newspaper held off on reporting just who the cop was, the Sheriff.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/126212960