Magruder HS Shooting

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS, including Magruder HS, dropped the resource officer program in the school because some parents accused the resource officer of being racist (since many of the students that are questioned or detained were students of color).......even though many of the resource officers were officer of color themselves!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/montgomery-schools-police-officer-program/2021/08/25/99fe70d2-058b-11ec-a654-900a78538242_story.html

Not to say having a resource officer would have prevented this but this is just a continuing process of labeling all police officer as racist. Sure, there are some bad cops but many are good people with family and kids of their own and just want to get home safe to be with their families. By denigrating the profession, police academy will have less qualified applicants resulting in a decrease quality of officers.......very sad.

Racism is structural and it's more strongly present in some structures than in others. The cops are a racist structure from the get-go--the idea of modern policing originates in slave patrols. Putting police into a structure like a school, which also has a history of structural racism, is not a great idea...as we can see from all the school shootings in which SROs have cowered, fled, or otherwise been radically ineffective.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What makes this so sad is this is teh SECOND incident of a student bringing a gun to school TODAY. There was a BB gun brought to Wheaton HS this morning:

Private school is looking better and better...

A BB gun? Like in A Christmas Story and like my kid shoots at Cub Scout camp? Stop it with the drama.

You realize that “bb guns” just look like real guns now right? Like exactly the same.

Ok, so a student brought a replica gun. So it looked like classmates around him were in danger but no one actually was.

You apparently don’t know that if you use a replica gun to rob or threaten someone it’s still a felony gun charge.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Watching the press conference and just feeling disturbed. McKnight literally thanked everyone in county government and MCPS before expressing any concern about the student who’s been shot or even saying anything about safety in schools. She then incredibly finished her statement blaming society. How pathetic. The absolute worst though is not once did she say that this was unacceptable and that guns in schools were unacceptable. It’s incredible. I don’t understand it.

Isn't that like saying water is wet?

She had the time to talk about helping kids use their words but couldn’t be bothered to preface that by saying that this cannot stand? You tell me why it’s important to emphasize the need to be empathetic to a school shooter but not emphasize how unacceptable this is? It’s unprecedented in our county. Words matter and I don’t feel very assured that she’s serious about keeping guns out of our schools and based on her statement she seems equally concerned about helping schools shooters as she is about protecting the safety of students.

It’s unacceptable.

That was a pretty bad press conference. The police chief was cracking jokes and the interim supt was playing politics.

I honestly don’t feel reassured at all that under these people things will get better. In fact, it’s the kind of performance that makes me think it’s only going to get worse.

[Anonymous]

How about metal detectors? Are they problematic too? I don’t know why MCPS does not have them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS, including Magruder HS, dropped the resource officer program in the school because some parents accused the resource officer of being racist (since many of the students that are questioned or detained were students of color).......even though many of the resource officers were officer of color themselves!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/montgomery-schools-police-officer-program/2021/08/25/99fe70d2-058b-11ec-a654-900a78538242_story.html

Not to say having a resource officer would have prevented this but this is just a continuing process of labeling all police officer as racist. Sure, there are some bad cops but many are good people with family and kids of their own and just want to get home safe to be with their families. By denigrating the profession, police academy will have less qualified applicants resulting in a decrease quality of officers.......very sad.

Racism is structural and it's more strongly present in some structures than in others. The cops are a racist structure from the get-go--the idea of modern policing originates in slave patrols. Putting police into a structure like a school, which also has a history of structural racism, is not a great idea...as we can see from all the school shootings in which SROs have cowered, fled, or otherwise been radically ineffective.

We can all see the crime wave in inner city with less policing. As a minority, I would rather have cops in my neighborhood and keep it safe than let crime run wild. Many of the inner cities have African American mayors and many have African American police chief......yes, very racist!

[Anonymous]

I’m so done with this lady. Just finished. Its just reprehensible.

[Anonymous]

In parallel to the discussion of "All police are racist", can we have a discussion of the race of the kids who are bringing guns to the school? Who is committing the crime?

[Anonymous]

None of this would have happened if MCPS had gone virtual this week.

[Anonymous]

Kids are still being released from school now. It’s grotesque that they would do this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:None of this would have happened if MCPS had gone virtual this week.

Now it’s “if only they’d been virtual this week?”

After weeks of hearing “only 2 weeks of virtual after break” which of course would have had kids in school this week anyway.

Don’t exploit this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids are still being released from school now. It’s grotesque that they would do this.

Is this the behavior of a sociopath? Denying kids even water. Further traumatizing them so that McKnight could arrive ONE HOUR late to the press conference so she could read her statement for the cameras. How is this putting the health and safety of kids first? I’m disgusted. Everyone should be.

[Anonymous]

So crazy. The shooter was sitting in a classroom on lockdown until he was arrested closer to 3pm…that’s two hours. Saw on Facebook that the police apprehended him in the classroom. That could’ve so easily become a shootout situation. Terrifying.

I’m glad my kids and I were blissfully unaware - my son was under the impression that the suspect was already in custody while we were texting between 1:15-3pm. We would’ve been in a panic.

[Anonymous]

Honest to god I am disturbed to my core by this. How had MCPS become this way? How has this county turned into this? How can we bring things back from the brink.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids are still being released from school now. It’s grotesque that they would do this.

Is this the behavior of a sociopath? Denying kids even water. Further traumatizing them so that McKnight could arrive ONE HOUR late to the press conference so she could read her statement for the cameras. How is this putting the health and safety of kids first? I’m disgusted. Everyone should be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So crazy. The shooter was sitting in a classroom on lockdown until he was arrested closer to 3pm…that’s two hours. Saw on Facebook that the police apprehended him in the classroom. That could’ve so easily become a shootout situation. Terrifying.

I’m glad my kids and I were blissfully unaware - my son was under the impression that the suspect was already in custody while we were texting between 1:15-3pm. We would’ve been in a panic.

Yes, it’s crazy. But beyond that MCPS lied! They had a kid with a gun trying to hide in the school in a lockdown situation and their immediate reaction was to lie through their teeth. They sent an email to parents saying that a student had a health issue and that there was no threat, all the while the gunman is hiding out in the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honest to god I am disturbed to my core by this. How had MCPS become this way? How has this county turned into this? How can we bring things back from the brink.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids are still being released from school now. It’s grotesque that they would do this.

Is this the behavior of a sociopath? Denying kids even water. Further traumatizing them so that McKnight could arrive ONE HOUR late to the press conference so she could read her statement for the cameras. How is this putting the health and safety of kids first? I’m disgusted. Everyone should be.

I didn’t hold her responsible for the shooting but if she’s the one that held the kids at school for 5 hours she should be fired tonight!