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Watching that reconstruction of events is sad and sickening. What a bunch of cowards/inept/untrained school officials and law enforcement (police captain was probably among the worst of the bunch but there are several in the running for that).

In early 2016, I attended a 3 day Citizen Response to Active Shooter class taught by Paul Howe (Owner of Combat Shooting and Tactics in Nacogdothes) . I expected the class to be mostly made up of teachers (as Paul trains a lot of teachers (for school districts) in this program) but the vast majority were law enforcement and one judge (no teachers at this class). I was surprised that there were so many law enforcement in the class and asked about that. They told me that they were there for training (some out of their own pocket) as the requirements now are that the first person goes in when he or she arrives at the scene. This was not new policy in 2016. Yes, it can be a very difficult situation but that is part of the job. Departments need to be training their officers for this type of event and doing refresher drills often (it was an intense 3 days at the class, real life would have been significantly worse). Schools need to have training on how to deal with a situation like this (should be arming teachers/administrators).

Hope there is a big house cleaning in the law enforcement and school administration there starting at the top.