The Rhode Island Senate is set to vote Tuesday on a proposal to allow local education officials to formulate school security plans behind closed doors despite concerns from open government groups. The measure would allow locally elected school officials to hold closed-door discussions about school safety policies, including the arming of school security guards or the procedure for notifying parents after an emergency. Supporters including Governor Lincoln Chafee say the secrecy would prevent a potential attacker from learning details of a school’s security plans. But opponents like the Rhode Island Press Association and the American Civil Liberties Union say the bill is too broad."
Related:
"Faculty oppose arming University of Rhode Island police
The University of Rhode Island’s faculty union is opposing plans by the school’s administration to arm campus police. The Providence Journal reported that the union said research has not proven that armed officers increase campus safety. The state Board of Education plans to vote May 20 on whether to allow Rhode Island’s three public higher education institutions to arm their police forces. State lawmakers are also reviewing legislation on the issue. URI administrator Robert Weygand told the board this week that it took armed South Kingstown officers five minutes longer than unarmed campus police to respond to an April 4 report of a gunman."
FLASHBACKS:
"URI president renews call for arming campus cops" by Erika Niedowski and David Klepper | Associated Press, April 06, 2013
PROVIDENCE — The president of the University of Rhode Island has renewed his call to arm campus police after reports of a gunman at the school prompted a lockdown, and at least two state lawmakers are reviving efforts to authorize it.
President David Dooley said he has long supported arming URI officers and that Thursday’s lockdown would likely prompt discussion of the issue ‘‘with even more intensity.’’
Even thought THERE WAS NO GUN or GUNMAN!??!!
Two Rhode Island lawmakers, Democrat Joseph Almeida of Providence and Republican Doreen Costa of North Kingstown, said Friday they will urge the General Assembly to pass legislation allowing officers to be armed at the state’s public universities. Previous legislative efforts have languished, leaving Rhode Island the only state that prohibits it.
‘‘If you’ve got trained officers already on campus, they would be able to respond,’’ said Almeida, a former police officer and sponsor of a bill that would allow campus police to carry guns. ‘‘I feel for the officers at URI — they had to call the local and state police.’’
And is it NOT MORE than IRONIC that the SAME AUTHORITIES trying to TAKE and CONTROL YOUR GUNS are INSISTING that THEY MUST BE ARMED?!?!
Oh, right, I forgot, cases of police killings and brutality never occur here in AmeriKa.
State Police continued Friday to learn what happened to prompt the scare. After hundreds of interviews with students, authorities determined only that someone apparently knocked on the door of an auditorium in Chafee Hall and said something that some inside interpreted as ‘‘I have a gun,’’ said Colonel Steven O’Donnell, the State Police superintendent.
Yeah, killers always knock. Readers, WhoTF came up with this BULLS*** STORY?
State Police listened to audio from inside the lecture hall and heard a voice say, ‘‘I’m a nice guy,’’ but they could not tell if there was a reference to a gun, he said. The comments prompted students to flee and the campus to be locked down.
Authorities never found a gun or a shooter and said there was never any danger.
Oh, STINK!
O’Donnell said authorities are trying to identify the person who was outside the classroom.
KEEP THAT in MIND, readers.
The incident has renewed the debate about whether campus officers should be allowed to carry firearms. Eva Mancuso, of the Rhode Island Board of Education, said discussion of the issue will be part of a broader look by the board at safety.
You can SEE what is GOING ON HERE, right?
‘‘The issue is you don’t just give people guns — you have to have training,’’ she said. ‘‘It’s one of the many issues that we have to look at when we talk about school safety. The most important factor in my mind is: There is no evidence that the arming or unarming of campus police had anything to do with the incident that happened’’ at URI.
Yeah, because THERE WAS NO "INCIDENT."
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Was this JUST ANOTHER DRILL GONE "LIVE" being reported as such in the paper, or....
"URI gunman scare was false alarm, authorities say" by Todd Feathers | Globe Correspondent, April 04, 2013
The University of Rhode Island and law enforcement authorities said a report of a shooter on its South Kingstown campus was a false alarm. An investigation revealed that “at no time was there a gun or an active shooter on the campus,” Rhode Island State Police Captain Frank B. Castallone said.
The campus was placed in lockdown shortly before noon, and university alert systems advised students and staff to remain indoors for over two hours while police searched the Chafee Social Science Center, where the gunman was reported to be located....
Think of it as a fire drill, kids, because that's what it was.
Ahnise Kassab, a student at the school, said in a telephone interview that he was in a physiology class in the Chafee center when a student several rows in front of him stood and yelled, “I’m done being a nice guy!”
Kassab said he did not see the student with a gun but heard another person scream that the student had one, prompting a rush for the classroom’s doors....
Wait a minute.
The AUTHORITIES are telling me this happened OUTSIDE the CLASSROOM!
What the F***??????!!!!!!
At a press conference on campus, Castallone said the professor in the classroom told them that a male student had yelled, “I’m a good guy and I have a gun.”
And after the "investigation" the story has CHANGED?
Castallone said officers found several Nerf guns in a backpack that was left in the auditorium, but authorities have not determined whether or not the fake guns or their owner were involved in the incident.
WHAAAAAAATTT!
Little soft, spongy, foamy Nerf guns were dropped, I mean, planted, I mean found at the scene?
Is there ANY MORE S*** you want to PILE on this MOUND?!!!!
David M. Dooley, the university’s president, said URI would examine whether a student group called the Humans vs. Zombies Organization was involved in the incident.
Who are they?
Related: Zumba and Zombies
Also see: Our zombies, ourselves
I have to admit, there are a hell of a lot of brain-dead Amerikans out there.
Zombies 'invade' Boston
How much of our tax loot did they eat?
The group’s website said students in the organization play a modified game of tag, in which “human” students must defend themselves with socks or toy dart guns from “zombie” students who are trying to tag them.
Wait until the first armed campus officer blows away a kid thinking he had a gun.
Either that, or NO MORE GAMES ON CAMPUS, kids!!!!
Kind of a sick game of tag anyway, if you ask me.
“We have the group on campus, they’re a recognized group and we’ve never had any problems in the past,” Dooley said.
Well, armed campu$ police might make it a problem, if you know what I mean.
After locking the campus down and advising everyone to stay indoors unless they were in Chafee, police went through the Chafee Social Science Center building, the largest building on campus, room by room. Shortly before 2:30 p.m., the university posted a statement saying that the campus was safe....
Why wouldn't it have been?
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Have you HAD it with the mind-manipulating, agenda-pushing PSY-OPS, folks?
I'm starting to wonder if I shouldn't start labeling all the alleged shooting and gunmen incidents being reported by the agenda-pushing ma$$ media as hoaxes. They don't really expect us to believe the cock-and-bull crap that comes from the mouthpieces of authority, do they? They just don't care is all.
UPDATE:
"Police press inquiry at URI campus" by Todd Feathers | Globe Correspondent, April 08, 2013
Tensions remain high at the University of Rhode Island, where police are searching for a man who made a “worrying” phone call Friday, a day after the South Kingstown campus was locked down for several hours following reports of an active gunman, school officials said.
University police responded to the school’s library Friday night after two students reported overhearing a suspicious phone conversation, said Major Stephen Baker, of the university’s police. At this time, there is no evidence that the man who made the call is connected to Thursday’s incident, when police swarmed the campus looking for a man who witnesses said knocked on a classroom door and said he had a gun, Baker said.
Oh, is that what happened?
“The phone conversation [on Friday] did not contain a specific threat but did [worry] the two students,” he said.
Please STOP IT with the f***ing PSY-OP, 'kay?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Baker said authorities have not identified the suspect from Thursday’s incident.
That's because THERE WAS NO SUSPECT!
After the campus was taken out of lockdown Thursday, State Police said they found no evidence that there was ever a shooter or a gun on the campus.
But State Police returned to the campus Monday to question witnesses in an attempt to identify the man who sparked Thursday’s alarm.
Yeah, AND.... ??????????
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Are you BUYING this agenda-pushing CROCK of SHIT, readers?
Also see: Spooky School Shooting Post
