WTAF - Teachers 'executed' in shooter drill sue Indiana sheriff's office for trauma, injury

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An active shooter drill went too far at an Indiana elementary school, drawing real blood, and causing true trauma for the teachers playing victim, according to a lawsuit filed this month against the sheriff’s office that put on the mock exercise.

Teachers at Meadowlawn Elementary School came to work Jan. 4, 2019, aware of the planned training, but not what the White County Sheriff’s Office had in store, the lawsuit says.

The training included: high-velocity plastic pellets fired at point-blank range, breaking skin, leaving scars; screaming, expletives, and verbal abuse, according to the suit.

“The teachers displayed obvious signs of anguish and physical pain, but were humiliated to find the law enforcement officers joking and laughing at them,” the suit states.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/teachers-executed-shooter-drill-sue-220814776.html

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1. America must look like a literal dystopia to the rest of the world

Not only would this drill be unnecessary in just about any civilized country, the idea that this kind of drill could even be remotely acceptable would be mindboggling anywhere else.

What on earth has happened to us?

[Laha]

15. I'm sad that I must agree.

This is terrifying. Something is truly wrong here. I care because you're my neighbours. No child or teacher should ever have to go through this. And I hope the officers are shamed all the way to oblivion for their behaviour.

[MagickMuffin]

2. Enforcers cruelty knows no bounds

He will cause injury to you and laugh and make jokes about it. They are trash!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

3. Stanford Prison Experiment?

[Enterstageleft]

4. Easy cure

Let the teachers & students have the same weapons & ammo.

Make the "law enforcement officers" ( I use that term very loosely) strip down to their 'undies' & get shot by the teachers for 5X the time those a-holes shot the teachers.

It would stop immediately, if not sooner.

[magicarpet]

5. Macho meatheads making a Fascist Police State day,...

... by day with the total endorsement and encouragement of donnie dump.

[Ferrets are Cool]

6. When the FUCK does this "so-called" law enforcement shit stop?

I'm gonna have to stop reading stories like this. I have a blood pressure problem.

[2naSalit]

9. When WE make it stop.

Just like the crime family occupying the WH whose crimes are too numerous to count, they are saying to us, make us stop it.

[Hav]

7. It sounds as if the drill was originally meant to incorporate actual teachers

but if that's the case, it was of course a disaster and the whole attitude by the officers was just deplorable, almost sadistic.
My initial thought was that it would be a drill for the benefit of the police which meant actors or volunteers who were sufficiently briefed would be the ones participating.

Even though I have absolutely no knowledge regarding these matters, slowly "executing" your colleagues to show them this happens if they don't do anything is not only cruel but it also doesn't seem beneficial at all should the teachers ever have to face such an extreme situation.

[crickets]

8. This was no real drill. It was just a sick excuse to brutally bully a group of captive teachers.

If you think you are required to be there and think your teaching job might hang in the balance, what are you supposed to do? If you want to leave because you are being physically harmed and the people harming you might do worse to you if you try to go, what do you do?

I hope they sue the shit out of the bastards, and insist they are fired. There was no excuse for that garbage. None.

[world wide wally]

10. I'm pretty sure any teacher could have told you that it hurts to get shot...

Even without the demonstration.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

11. Why did this not become a major story a year and a half ago?

And why didn't the teachers just walk out on the "training" and go straight to the principal and then the media?

Saying they felt like they couldn't opt out is scary. I'm horrified that not a single one of them seems to have done or said anything.

[AwakeAtLast]

12. It was a story at the time

And teachers in Indiana no longer have tenure, hence the reason for fear of speaking out.

So glad I now teach in Illinois!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. I'm glad to hear that it was a story at the time.

Obviously I missed it.

[AwakeAtLast]

14. Considering everything that has happened in the last six months

That was easy to do.