Why does the footage show something than the actual story? |
what footage? |
| Can somebody link to actual documentation of what the Lakewood official said? I haven't seen it and even the reporter used the word "apparently." If a written contradiciton from the Lakewood principal existed, and decent reporter would have had it. |
+1 to all the above. This is serious and they are not being transparent. Release the GPS trackings (untampered) if they have factual traceability. Compare it to footage. How can you trust this agency if they are hiding things? Why are we funding it blindly and not getting what we paid for? |
From the principal's letter: "Regarding the second concern, there were no incidents at Lakewood Elementary School that required the presence of a Community Engagement Officer. Had there been any such situation, I would have communicated that information promptly in my update yesterday." |
Boom. Send this principal’s letter to the media. |
It was sent. That’s why the media started looking into this. As mentioned earlier, when that Fox article came out, Lakewood principal had a meeting w Lakewood staff. She said the footage shows officer was at Lakewood for 45 seconds around 1:30 PM. He did a circle around bus loop, didn’t even get out and drove off. That’s a 45 minute gap between being at Lakewood and the shooting. He wasn’t there during time of shootings. Stop lying. MCPS needs to be accountable. |
This seems like a Rockville PD problem more than an MCPS problem. |
Yes, but Taylor is using MCPS to cover for Rockville PD. |
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This is so weird.
Honestly, I don't think the CEO could have done anything about the shooting, so I'm not bothered that he wasn't on site. They're not supposed to be full-time at any one location anyway. Whether he was at another school or at Starbucks doesn't matter to me. But I find the cross-stories really weird, and the failure to acknowledge them by MCPS even weirder. If the Lakewood principal has affirmatively stated the CEO wasn't there, then MCPS needs to acknowledge that statement is out there and address it - maybe principal is crazy, maybe there's some innocuous explanation, maybe (probably not) there's a sinister explanation, but for MCPS to just ignore it and pretend the principal never said it is really, really weird. It definitely makes what was probably a non-story look suspicious. |
Which is why we need SROs, who are designated to a specific school and walk the halls. A criminal is less likely to commit a crime when the police are around. Could this shooting have been prevent if an SRO was there? We will never know. |
Yes, but...if a CEO was quick to arrive on the scene, could they have deescalated the situation, meaning prior to whatever (does anyone actually know what happened at Wootton) happened prior to a shooting between students. No? |
If he told MCPS he was at Lakewood when he was actually at Starbucks that does matter though. |
And never go to the bathroom, and never get sick, and never go to lunch, and never write a report in their car, and are in every single hallway, every single moment of the whole day. You’re a loon. The actual study is that when somebody wants to show up a school, they bring more guns when they know a police officer is there, not that they don’t bring a gun. |
I mean it was 2 o’clock that’s about the time people get a snack or coffee. So he could be at Lakewood and had gone out for coffee. |