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The FBI’s Advice for School Shootings: Run Comes First
Uvalde. Those children and teachers didn’t stand a chance. I feel sick just writing those words.
I turn the radio in the car to NPR, and hear an interview with Katherine Schweit, who spent two decades as an FBI special agent, and who created the agency’s active shooter program after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.
Her response to how the situation in Uvalde was handled by the police: “ You know, I’m going to tell you the truth. I was shocked. I was shocked. And at first, I was — it was disbelief. I was like, they can’t possibly have had this situation happen there. And they’re not the first, you know, law enforcement community that has had some trip ups and some challenges in responding to things since I’ve been working on this. But this was just so there, so challenging to see it unfold and right in front of our eyes. That the law enforcement was there for an hour on the other side…
