Jim Kenyon: On school cop, Lebanon board is punting like it’s 1999
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I’m still trying to figure out why the Lebanon School Board caved so badly when it came time Wednesday to vote on allowing an armed police officer to continue patrolling school hallways.
The board had an opportunity to show real leadership by declaring that schools and police aren’t a healthy mix.
Instead, it punted.
Seven board members Chairman Dick Milius, Martha DiDomenico, Tammy Begin, Aaron Mills, Stephen Kantor, Lilian Maughan and Lisa Vallejo Sorensen voted to fund the school resource officer’s position for another year.
Relatives wept and hugged as the nine people killed in a school shooting in the Russian city of Kazan were buried Wednesday, which was declared a day of mourning in the predominantly Muslim republic of Tatarstan.
Columbine High School Shootings Fast Facts
Here is some background information about the deaths of 13 people at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, on April 20, 1999.
Facts
Twelve students and one teacher were killed by students Dylan Klebold, 17, and Eric Harris, 18.
The pair made home videos prior to the attack making references to what they were going to do and apologizing to their parents for it.
Harris and Klebold killed themselves with gunshot wounds to the head in the school’s library at approximately 12:08 p.m. on the day of the shootings.
SWAT teams entered the school 47 minutes after the shootings started. Five hours passed before law enforcement declared the school under control.
âActive Shooterâ: How an Obscure Term Became a Shorthand for Violence
This law enforcement jargon has proliferated in recent years on social media and in breaking news reports. While it conjures fears of mass shootings, the term is often used imprecisely. Many reports turn out to be false alarms.
The mass shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., on April 20, 1999, changed the popular understanding of the term âactive shooter.âCredit.Rodolfo Gonzales/The Rocky Mountain News, via Associated Press
May 4, 2021, 9:02 a.m. ET
For most of the 20th century, âactive shootersâ in the United States were not considered cause for alarm.