Post 1961474 by sungo@hackers.town
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(DIR) Post #1958981 by sungo@hackers.town
2018-12-13T15:28:23Z
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I... that's my hometown. Where I'm going this weekend. That's the middle school I attended...https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/13/us/richmond-indiana-active-shooter-school/index.html
(DIR) Post #1959088 by mindnmotion@bsd.network
2018-12-13T15:30:58Z
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@sungo Wow! That's pretty frightening.
(DIR) Post #1959817 by CrowderSoup@socialmast.xyz
2018-12-13T16:10:58Z
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@sungo shit, I'm sorry! I can't imagine...
(DIR) Post #1960866 by thegibson@hackers.town
2018-12-13T17:04:19Z
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@sungo It's way too common now...sounds like the wider disaster was avoided at least.
(DIR) Post #1960972 by sungo@hackers.town
2018-12-13T17:08:48Z
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So, the cops got a tip. They showed up at the school, expecting a fight, by their own admission. They were able to put the school on lockdown before they opened fire in a public street in front of a school. They then chased the kid into the school, found him in a stairwell, exchanged more gun fire. The kid then killed himself.The lockdown means the kid couldn't get into a classroom. But it does not magically turn the walls bulletproof. That police department has an immense amount of less-lethal weaponry at their disposal but seems to have chosen not to use it.There's a lot of this story that both doesn't make sense but makes a shit load of sense if you know that police department.
(DIR) Post #1961313 by Cyborgneticz@scholar.social
2018-12-13T17:29:08Z
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@sungo Holy hell. I wish I was surprised. I love Richmond, but the police there always looked ready to fight.
(DIR) Post #1961381 by sungo@hackers.town
2018-12-13T17:33:41Z
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@Cyborgneticz Particularly if you're not white or straight-passing. And god help you if you're hispanic or homeless.
(DIR) Post #1961401 by Cyborgneticz@scholar.social
2018-12-13T17:34:59Z
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@sungo I had a friend, white, visibly queer, who was living in a storage unit, and the police threatened to kick them out. The first time I visited was 1st Friday and the cops were blocking streets brought out horses. It was scary.
(DIR) Post #1961420 by ky0ko@cybre.space
2018-12-13T17:36:42Z
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@sungohate seeing this kind of stuff happening in my state of origin
(DIR) Post #1961474 by sungo@hackers.town
2018-12-13T17:38:54Z
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These, incidentally, are the cops that requisitioned a fucking tank and, iirc, grenade launchers from the military surplus program. Because Richmond fucking Indiana is going to get hit by a TERRIST insurgency or something. I don't know.
(DIR) Post #1961508 by ky0ko@cybre.space
2018-12-13T17:40:40Z
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@sungoim from indianapolis, not richmond, but, i know people from there, who I'm pretty sure went to that schooli know i probably shouldn't but i expect better of hoosiers than this(except maybe gary and evansville)
(DIR) Post #1961562 by sungo@hackers.town
2018-12-13T17:45:08Z
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@ky0ko Gary and Evansville are only barely part of Indiana :) Not even in the right time zone :)Thing is about Richmond, its citizens kinda fought for the south in the civil war. The grand dragon of the KKK lived just south in the 80s and they used First Presbyterian Church in Richmond as a recruiting zone. It's about 18 flavors of racist and bigoted.I love my home town and I've spent a large portion of my adult life there. But goddamn it has some serious problems.
(DIR) Post #1961588 by sungo@hackers.town
2018-12-13T17:48:28Z
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@ky0ko Also, Jim Jones graduated from high school in Richmond. Good times.
(DIR) Post #1971716 by sungo@hackers.town
2018-12-14T02:35:52Z
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-- "We train for active shooters, and we say we're not waiting for SWAT, we have to handle it," [the police chief] said. "And that's exactly what happened." --He's so close to that backwoods sheriff mumbling about taking care of things the old fashioned way. Why wait for SWAT? Why not round up any ol' gun hand and storm in?https://www.pal-item.com/story/news/crime/2018/12/13/dispatch-death-3-minutes-inside-dennis-active-shooter-response/2305294002/