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In the event of a lockdown, there are simple steps to take that will keep us all safe. Some people will say, "Oh, you know, it's just some kid playing." The problem is, we can't take that risk anymore. You don't wanna rely on just one thing to make your school safe. This is a bulletproof whiteboard. This is a bulletproof desk. It feels very scary. Sometimes I don't wanna come to school 'cause I think I might not come home next day. So were you suggesting perhaps somebody should've been armed and killed somebody? Ready. Fire! The building lockdown drill is now over.

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Hi. Good afternoon, Woodridge Middle School. I hope you had a great day at school, and the buses have arrived. First shift, please depart, and, teachers, please keep your second shift students for private transportation until all first shift students

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Oh! Ahh! I'm hit! Oh, my leg! Cover the window. - Right above my knee. It's just my leg. Attention, staff and students. Attention, staff and students. We have an intruder in the building. We have an intruder in the building. 10-4, intruder is in the building. Stabbing victim in room 9. Please call 911. Help will be here soon. There you go. Talk to them.

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It's Johnny. Let me in. Let me in. The shooter's out here in the hallway. Open the door!

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Come on! I was in the restroom. Let me in!

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All right, I'm going to reload. I'm gonna be back for Mrs. Melman. You hear me?

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Let's go!

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Keep going. They need you.

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Let's go, hustle it up!

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One twist'll be good when you get it. All right. - You made it tight enough. Bleeding stopped.

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He can always hold it too. He's got the other arm. - Hold that. As long as he's not incapacitated.

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You're good, buddy. Don't put that away yet.

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Please stand for the homecoming queen, 2018!

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Left, right... Left, right. On your right! Left. Left. Left. Left. Stay in step. - Left. Keep your momentum. Left. Right. Left.

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Goodness, gracious, great balls of fire.

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Okay, so we need to juggle a couple different things today. We need to do some voiceover work, some green screen work. Then we need to get Thursday and Friday's school announcements done. All right, so let's grab the equipment that you need.

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Good morning, Stings. - Wait, wait. Are you supposed to press the record button or no? No? Okay. Sorry. Good morning, Stings. I'm Maduesuel, and today is Friday, May 17th, and these are your morning announcements. Today is National Cherry Cobbler Day. National Cherry Cobbler Day is dedicated every May 17th to the delicious tart dessert that's enjoyed by many with ice cream. To observe this, use the hashtag cherrycobblerday to post on your social medias. A/V testing will be held in the lecture hall today. Project Grad 2020 will be collecting Sting Out shirt forms during both lunches. "They are to move out of sight, bring in students, "engage the TeacherLock, cover window, if possible, "maintain silence, and take attendance. "A lockdown will be announced like this. "While students quickly move to an area of the room "that is out of sight from doors or windows, "teachers should lock... "During the lockdown, stay quiet and out of sight. Make sure all devices are silenced or turned off." I'm about to re-look over it. 'Cause you're not liable. "If you're in the computer lab, "make sure all monitors are turned off. "Teachers should take attendance, "including names of any extra staff students in the room. "In the lockdown, stay in your location. "No one should enter or leave until the responders open the door with the key."

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"In the event of a lockdown, "there are simple steps to take that will keep us all safe. "These steps are a part of "the TCISD standard response protocol. "They

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move out of sight, bring in students, "engage the TeacherLock, turn off lights, "cover window, if possible, maintain silence, and take attendance." "Remember, in a lockdown, stay in your location. "No one should enter or leave "until responders open the door with a key and escort you out."

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East Hall. Girls' athletics hallway. Back door hallway. Fieldhouse. Front door. Five students, two staff members. So we've got 33 students inside the weight room. We've got three staff. So coaches are in there. We have a badge monitoring system that our students and staff are required to wear that tells us where they're at in our buildings in the event we need to evacuate them. Where are we at here? Let me find a good one.

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That's not a good one. This is just someone ratting somebody out that they're selling candy on campus. That's not a good one. Okay, let me see what I got here. This is the first arrest we had this year regarding a planned school threat or attack, okay? This person wrote the threat on the bathroom wall at Texas City High School, you know, they were gonna kill everybody in the school. They had some drawings of weapons and some very antisemitic, um, statements regarding Jews and use of the N-word. And so, um, you know, some people will say, you know, it's just some kid playing. The problem is, we can't take that risk anymore.

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In December, the board approved an upgrade to our cameras, our access controls, and reinforcement of our doors.

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We have the ability to lock an individual door, lock an individual campus, or lock every campus with the push of a button. We can secure the school as best we absolutely can... But if someone is committed to committing murder, no lock or camera system is gonna prevent someone from doing that.

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Having been in the tactical field myself, I understand the importance of having superior firepower. We paid $40,000 for 22 AR-15s. We've got 19 deputies. We purchased 22. We have three on, uh, you know, on loan. In the event one is broke, it's out for repair, we can replace that rifle. So that's why we decided to purchase these, so... Anything else regarding those? Nope. - Kay.

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We're doing everything we can to harden the infrastructure to keep people from getting in, but what keeps me up at night is that the wolf is in the henhouse. I don't like using the reference in regards to our students, but the fact of the matter is that's the truth. The threat always comes from inside.

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How are you? - I gotta get in there. Good. How you guys doing? Very well. Thank you. Thank you. - Thank you. We are the new and emerging brand for the largest school supply company in the United States with over 100,000 SKUs. Basically, in your school, if you can think of it, we do it. That bleeding response kit that we talked about earlier, right over there on the table, you've got that. And then finally, the lockdown shade, so all you gotta do is pull a little string. It's got a little weight. It drops it down. And right there you can get the shade and the lock... It's good to go. - In about three seconds, move to another wall. Yeah. - If you need to, like, get word out quickly, literally, it's one button. It sends it out to everyone, law enforcement, EMS as well. Again, we do all of it. This is the tactical electronic distraction device. It's an electronic flash-bang. But unlike an actual flash-bang, you're not gonna light someone on fire. There's no liability from that. It's programmable for time and delay, but the thought is, they roll it at the guy. You know, if you got kids running around screaming, you're not gonna injure anyone, but he'll probably pause for a second going, "What the heck is that?" Gives your guy a second to take the bead. Down he goes. So on one half, this is the stuff we do for the school resource officer. For the students directly, this is a bulletproof whiteboard. So if you've got a hardened school, you know, pretty much like cinder block walls, concrete, brick, something like that that you don't have to worry about shooting through the walls, then the doorway is your weak point, you know, so you're gonna have kids get up there. They're gonna kick through the door, they're gonna shoot through the door. They can do a lot of damage. So what this is, you can just roll this around, you know, in front of the door. You can also have the guy go down the hallway with the gun out. They can be used-- you can form a wall across a hallway so you can evacuate students, a lotta applications. So that is the barricade. And then on the flip side, this is a bulletproof desk. Press. Press. Press. Press. Press. Press. Press. Press. Press. Press. Faster. Press. Press. See? It's coaching you through. Press. Press. Press. Press. Press. Press. Press. Press. Press. Press. Press. Press. So you'll do that for two minutes. Press. Press. Press. - It'll re-analyze. Press. Press. Press. Press. - And then it'll give another-- another shock if they didn't come back. Okay. - Press. Press. Press. Press. On the fly, there is Spanish. Presin, presin, presin, presin, presin. Press. Press. Press. Press. Press. Of course, we recognize the fact that security needs to be layered. You don't want to rely on just one thing to make your school safe. The idea here is if you've got security systems in place, you've got door locks in place, but what if someone does breach those and get into the classroom? We want to give the students a safe place to shelter. But if you have a tight area, we can make it into a different shape, like an L-shape. We can do a straight line. It's very adaptable to the needs of the classroom. I've shot it with 9-millimeter,.40,.45,.556,.223, 7.62x39, 7.62x.51, 12-gauge buckshot, 12-gauge slug. Faculty members can indicate whether they're safe or in need of assistance. Administrators and first responders have access to view real-time employer location information

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The automated panic button response options such as who is notified and what information is shared can be customized to fit every school's needs. VOLO understands that safety must always be balanced with the need to maintain personal privacy. While it's imperative that first responders and school administrators can keep track of faculty members' locations during an emergency, it's also important that the tracking terminate when employees leave work. To that end, VOLO's geofence perimeter map activates location monitoring only within the boundaries of school property. VOLO provides your...

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Last year around Christmastime, a next-door neighbor of mine, a mother of two, was just walking home in my neighborhood when she was approached by someone who wanted her purse. She wouldn't give it up, and the person shot her eight times in the chest. And I grew up in what's considered, like, a dangerous neighborhood, so I'm used to all this neighborhood gang violence and just hearing gunshots every now and then. But it really hit home when it was right next door. So I immediately looked online for something to buy for my mom and my brother to make it feel like I was protecting them and give my own self some peace of mind. But as I was looking around, not only did I find very few options out there for women and children but also prices that soared into the thousands of dollars. Even as a Bay Area tech worker, it was not something I could afford. Okay. I made the first two for my mom and my brother. And then I thought maybe I should just put it online and see if other people would want the same thing. And when I got my first order, I immediately postponed my master's program and ordered $8,000 worth of Kevlar to start playing around. Yeah, so this roll used to be eight times the size. And it weighed half a ton. So it was really hard getting it to my room here upstairs.

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The person who delivered the Kevlar, he had to carry it on a forklift. So when he dropped it off, he was like, "I hope you have friends."

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I think that's enough for the medic.

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Currently working out of my bedroom in East Palo Alto. It's more luxurious than a garage, I guess, for Silicon Valley, so pretty happy with the setup. So as you can see, it's on me right now. When I don't want to use it, I'll put the hood down, so it will look more casual at night. It's kinda bulky, but I prefer more panel protection than less. When you do feel unsafe, you can just pull up your head protection, and so you have protection here, on the back, and on the side as well. Okay, I've never messed this up, so let's see if-- worst thing that can happen is if a corner riles up or something. That's the worst. Right now, I make about four hoodies a week. Seeing the interest from schools and from different organizations, I do think the only way I can sustain the company is by growing. Okay, just put it down. Oh, no, it's wrinkly.

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Two shooters, ma'am? -

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Hello, can you pick up? -

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Hey, little buddy. How you doing, little buddy?

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Come on. - No, hold up, hold up, I've got a phone call here.

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Hold on. Any last words? Come on. - Andre! Perpetrator's name is Andre? -

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Andre? Andre? -

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Can you pick up? Hello. -

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Hello? Can you pick up? Hello. - Hello? Can you tell me where you are? Hello! - Can you tell me where you are? - Oh, oh, they're shooting in the school. - Where are you at? Help me. Help me. The shooter

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Andre? Andre? -

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Can you pick up? Hey, everybody!

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Andre? Can you pick up? -

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One of the victims is talking to a perpetrator. Bang! Bang...bang! You hear shots coming down the hallway. You hear screaming. Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! You hear kids screaming, running. You are armed at this point. You have an assistant in your classroom. You give your kids to that assistant. You draw your firearm. You open the door. There's a child there bleeding, asking for help. "Please help me. Please help me." Bang! Bang! Bang! You hear it towards your right. You step over that child, and you start walking down the hallway. It gets louder. Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! You come around the corner, and you see the shooter. So if you're stacked up ready to go to the door, and you're in the fear of your life, what's the opposite of fear? Love is the opposite of fear. If you could just look back at your kids and you love the kids who are getting shot outside, that's a huge, huge motivation. Somewhere in the Bible it says, "Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "'Whom shall I send? And Who will go for us?' And I said, 'Here I am. Send me!'" That's what we want. That's out motivation. Have the resolve, have the confidence, the conviction that you can go in there, go out of your room, go down the hallway, go into the gym, and stop the killing.

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All right. First shot, how do you feel about that? Was a terrible shot. - Why do you say that? 'Cause the kids were still out on the basketball court. Yeah. - Yep. That's no bueno. Would you agree? I agree. - Yeah. Your goal is to save kids. Mm-hmm. Not kill them. Yes.

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Six. Seven. Eight. Close.

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That's that. Okay? So remember that one for a long time.

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I teach first-graders, and when we do a lockdown drill, we just put them up against a wall and tell them to sit there quietly. There was a point where one of my kiddos says, "Well, what if they have a gun to shoot through the wall?" Yep. Y'all are just sitting ducks. I cannot comfortably just let them sit there and get ready for execution. People who don't shoot guns, they'll tell me, "Well, why don't you just want to be in law enforcement if you want to be a hero?" My calling is being a teacher. I don't want to leave the classroom and become a security guard. I want to be a teacher who, as a last resort, has the chance to protect his students' lives. Finger guns out. Take a step forward. High-knee kneeling. That's it. Bam-bam. We are a long ways from police protection, and we live right between I-80 and I-76, so there's all sorts of possibilities for folks that we don't know coming in. And we can either plan to fail or fail to plan. And so I-- I don't plan to fail. Be very careful of how you're programming yourself, the training scars that you are creating, right? Okay, that's highway you constantly mix up your round count. Two might do it. One might do it. 17 might do it. I don't know. You just have to be able to articulate why you did what you did. Okay? So it might be I burn 17 rounds, combat, reload, and burn 17 more before the guy comes down because he's so high on crystal meth, right, and he's not feeling pain. He's dead, but nobody told him to quit. Right? One of those deals? Okay? So my point is that it might take one that goes right between the running lights, and he's done. I don't know. But what I don't want you to do is fire and automatically stop. The gun's not gonna go off unless you press the trigger. It's gonna go exactly where you point the sights. Okay? I wish I could climb in your head and do it for you. I can't. Be confident. You got this. - You have the training. You have the training. Let's do it. All right, draw your ready position. Chamber check if needed.

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Excuse me, 208, our voices are very what? Quiet. - Loud. You need to lower your voice a little bit. Which of these two numbers...

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All right, my friends, we're gonna try one activity for Calm Classroom that helps us stay focused, okay? Okay.

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We're going to practice listening to sound in silence. Sit up straight and comfortably in your chair. Rest your hands on your desk. Close your eyes. Relax your shoulders, back, and down. Let your whole body be still. Feel the air moving gently in and out of your nose. As you become aware of silence of the room, listen to it without moving your body. If you notice any thoughts passing through your mind, let them float away and bring your attention back to the sound and silence. -

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Slowly open your eyes. Are we ready to go ahead and start math?

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Yes. - Yes? Okay. Who would like to read the instructions for us? Go ahead, Isaac G, Nice and loud. "For each pair, write the number of items in each set. Then circle the set with the greater number of items." Okay. What does that mean? What does that mean? Go ahead, Isaac. That means, like, you circle... Uh-huh. A pile that has more. Like, greater means more. Okay. And so that means, like--like, right here, number one. - Uh-huh. Equals 10. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15...

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Now, take a deep breath in. Hold it. And exhale slowly. Notice how you feel. Slowly open your eyes. Let's think a little bit about when we could use these breathing techniques in our life. If you're frustrated. If you're frustrated. Yeah. Can you give me an example? Since my brother's 12 years old and he's getting into his teenage years it's very annoying, because he always annoys me and he never listens to me. So sometimes, like, I lose my breath, 'cause I'm so mad at him. I see. Sometimes you lose your breath, 'cause you're so mad at him. Okay. Anybody else? When else do you feel stressed or frustrated? When my birthday-- when I turn eight. And also, my cousin always makes a mess and never cleans it up. Why are you stressed about your birthday? Because when I turn eight, I have to get a flu shot. And...I don't want to grow up. Great. - I want us to stay the same way we are, even when we grow up. Slowly open your eyes. Kids your age in this neighborhood, what do you think are their biggest worries? Probably getting robbed, jumped. Angel? - Getting shot. Getting shot? Yeah. Is that a concern that's specific to our community, or is that a concern that's specific to our city? To our--I think to our city.

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What are some other concerns? I'm sure around the neighborhood there are a bunch of immigrants. And not being offensive or anything, but it's kind of scary when you think about it. Like, put yourself in the point of view of a ten-year-old child, and then, like, all these federal cops come in, like, all dressed in black--like, they come looking for your mother, and then they just-- they take her. Do you think that's a concern for a lot of kids in the neighborhood? Yeah. Do you think that's a concern that a lot of people don't talk about publicly? Yes. They need to talk about it.

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Well, I suppose it's an invitation, "Won't you be my neighbor?" It's an invitation for somebody to be close to you. You know, I think everybody longs to be loved and longs to know that he or she is lovable. And consequently, the greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they're loved and capable of loving. Feel the air moving in and out of your nose. And now start shaking your right hand and arm. And move it how you'd like to. Move it up high, move it down low, to the side. Watch your arm and hand shaking. Now close your eyes and feel your hand and arm shaking. Like don't care baby by the way Keeping your eyes closed, shake your left hand and arm. Shake both arms. Shake your shoulders. Because I'm happy If you can, shake your right leg with your eyes closed, or you can open them. Shake them.

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Shake your other leg. Now stop shaking. Feel the air moving in and out of your nose. Notice how you feel. And slowly open your eyes. If you're ready, I want you to write down the positive changes that you've seen with a student, sometimes just a change--the duration and the frequency and the intensity of someone of those emotions that they're struggling to manage, right? So they may never be perfectly calm, but if we can get them down from 20 minutes down to 10, you can teach for 10 more minutes. That's great, right? Improve those test scores.

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I'm thinking about a student that came to my room who was like super amped up because they had got into a fight with another student in the hallway. They came into my office, and they were pacing back and forth and pushing chairs. So I just tell them let all that out. You know, don't break anything. But I always tell them to breathe through it in through your nose, out through your mouth. This particular student would follow that lead, and then she was able to tell me how she felt. 'Cause most of the time when children are fighting or everyone's grabbing them and telling them, "Stop, don't do that." You have to let them get some of that out, redirect it. 'Cause it's moment. They have to get through that moment. Maybe then as a close to today, which has been fantastic, we'll take a collective deep breath, count to three, put our hands up in the air, and say "yes."

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Place all bags and purses on the table. Open them up, please. Umbrellas also. Walk through the detector.

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There are many criminals in schools who have firearms who shouldn't be there, and the potential for violence is extremely high. I want to show you a couple of articles. This one is from Franklin Regional, where they had the stabbing and 22 kids were hurt. No one was armed. It's just by the grace of God that some kids didn't die. What would happen if that happened here in this city? And it's not as remote as you think a possibility. Because in the schools, how many young people do you have on selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors? Those are SSRI drugs, like Prozac and others. Those drugs are at the center of virtually every mass shooting in a school that's ever happened, because they create violent ideation and suicidal tendencies and aggressiveness. It's not a question of if an incident like this is gonna happen, but it really is a question of when. So I heard a lot of problematic statements in the argument, Mr. Stolfer, that you put forward. So were you suggesting, in the Parkland Regional-- or in the Franklin Regional stabbing incident-- that perhaps somebody should have been armed and killed somebody? Because in the situation that happened, nobody died, right? So what would be the solution that a gun would do better there? Well, I'm not sure how familiar you are with that incident. The only reason why some of those kids didn't die was because of the rapid responses of first responders. So it's not a question of what could happen; it's what is the duty of a law enforcement officer? It's to protect others from harm. Well, you could have shot a 17-year-old kid. Is that you're stance is? - I'm sorry? That if an armed guard had been there that he could have shot the 17-year-old that was doing the stabbing? I would submit to you if it was your child he was stabbing, you would want him to. Moving on from that, the implication that people on SSRIs are the main cause of every mass shooting that has ever happened-- we in this district embrace all students, specifically our students who might have a special need, a mental health issue. We do not ever see them as potential killers. We want to see how we can lift them up and help them and make them feel welcomed and treated right in this district. To put that...

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I just want to interject. My concern is, I want to stop whatever's coming from the outside inside. I'm not worried about the boys and girls and young men and young women, whether they be troubled or not, inside the schools. I'm worried about the ones who are troubled who don't care about the ones inside the schools. My job and my police officers' job is to stop that. We keep trying to intertwine it where it's the streets. It's not the streets. We're trying to keep the streets out of our schools, so our kids can sit down, laugh, joke, and get an education, and you cannot get an education if we let these people inside to do whatever they want to do. Period. And there's been times--times and times again where you as a student didn't know what we were doing, but we were working hard every five minutes to make sure you guys had a smile on your face and that you were able to get an education and have a good rapport with you guys also. And you guys were able to do that without guns. Right? Yes. But it--it--

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I read very carefully the Secret Service report that came out in June on school shootings. And the very first thing they concluded was that there's no profile. You know, whether it's the kid on Ritalin or whatever, there's no profile as you were suggesting. There's no profile of a student--of a school shooter. You can't look at students and determine that that person is going to be a shooter. And so there-- I just want to leave you with a couple of thoughts. If you take the existing police that are in schools and add a firearm, you're changing the school environment for the students. Right? And that sends a very strong and a negative message to the students that somehow firearms are needed in terms of dealing with the kinds of everyday things that go on in schools, especially given the problems that we already know exist. Students of color in particular African-American students, and students with disabilities are having much more contact with police-- that the arrest rates are higher for those students.

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And then finally, for a district that has not had armed security, just to add armed security, that is something to worry about in terms of the overall agenda of a board of education.

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They are and they aren't. They are a little. Okay. So if the lines are blank, there is no solution to the system, because the lines were never blank. Mark? If the lines are horizontal or vert--I don't know. They don't have to be horizontal or vertical. If they're parallel. - If they're parallel. They'll never--they'll never be solution-itized. There is no solution to the system, because the lines will never... They'll never intersect. They'll never intersect. - Excuse the interruption. We are about to announce a lockdown drill. Again, this will be a drill. Lockdown. Lockdown. Lockdown. Again, this a drill. It will last about 15 minutes to give everyone the opportunity to discuss the procedure. The building lockdown drill is now over. You may reopen doors and resume your normal activities. The building lockdown is now over. Okay. So... - Wonderful. Let's--we--I don't know. We're gonna find out. Finish up whatever you were on, and then you can put your math away, and I can answer your lockdown drill questions. It's terrifying. Yeah. - It's terrifying. Yeah, it's terrifying. You're right. I think, on some doors, they do have that-- Yeah, but if they know that the door is locked, they're not gonna come in. Yeah. They're looking for quick fix. Yeah. - At least you hope so. Yeah, if--like, whatever their motive is, they're trying to-- I don't think it's a specific person or a group of people, I think it's just, like, anger. I feel as if having to do constant lockdown drills is almost as traumatizing as having an actual situation like that. I don't know. Maybe it's because I'm a math teacher, and I'm very reassured by statistics, but, like, you're far, far more likely to get hit by a car going to get your lunch in about half an hour than you are to encounter an active shooter. Being hit by a car is very likely in New York City, but it's not something--when people are hit by cars, it's not constantly covered in the media. It's not--when we look at our phones, and we, like, look at the news--'cause I know that some of us watch the news--it's not something we see. And whenever there is a shooting, it is covered in the media. Even though you know you're very unlikely to be in that situation, it feels very likely, and it feels very scary, and sometimes I don't want to come to school, 'cause I think, I don't know, I might not-- I might not come home the next day.

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. JC, we can stay through the top of the four. We'll unloaded them all at once. Yeah.

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They've been hearing a teacher got shot over assignments.

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We have pushed out 19 new security features in this district. We've done more in eight months than most districts have done in 20 or 30 years, so with that comes a substantial amount of time and effort that has to be put into place to sustain these things, and we're not quite there yet. But I do think that we will be receiving a substantial amount of funds from the state. Now, here's the part that gets us. You guys know as well as I do that there's no free money. So when we accept these funds, the state's gonna require us to meet certain criteria. We had $6.5 million given to us in the bond, right? We have to do our best to... Secure the facility. But I think that where we're missing the boat is not understanding that we have to be better at identifying a problem before it happens. You know, people will argue, "Well, then why did you put in so much money into cameras or infrastructure?" Well, that's because I had to. The bond dictated that we had to. Trust me, if I had carte blanche how I wanted to spend this money, it would not have been all the way that I did.

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I would have put more money into social-emotional learning, mental health, programs for kids to help them deal with adversity and rejection and failure. That's what I think is going to make a difference. Lady Stings on three! One, two, three, Lady Stings!

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It's so surreal to me right now that I'm here in a large manufacturing facility about to make hundreds and hundreds of bulletproof hoodies. I had some investors who were interested in helping Wonder Hoodie, and I was sitting down to meet with one of them, and she's like, "I gotta be honest with you. "Your products are cheaper than what's out there, "but they'll still expensive. "They're still $500. "No"--and I quote-- "kid from the hood will ever be able to afford them." I think just hearing someone flat out say it's not gonna work--like, I was poor before, and I know my mom and I would default to paying our rent and buying food over a very expensive garment. So I went to a gun show, the largest gun show in the U.S., and learned more about the industry and see where my products can help these other bigger companies, like Glock and Remington. That was an eye-opener. I hadn't realized that the gun manufacturers may be interested in our products. But after talking with a lot of people, I realized this could be an option. That's when I came up with a new business model. We get really big players to buy a lot of our hoodies, so we can afford to donate some to people who can't afford it. I don't think my standards have gone down at all, but I think my idea of what I need to really grow the business has. My goal for the next six months right now is just to sell--sell as many hoodies as I can, so I can donate to the people who need it. And that's been helping me sleep at night. Put your hands up! Don't move! Put your hands up! Don't move! Put your hands up! Don't move! Put your hands up! Don't move! Okay, he's lifting up his shirt. He's pulling out a gun! Fire!

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Good. Okay, here we go again. Put your hands up! Don't move! Put your hands up! Don't move! Put your hands up! Don't move! Put your hands up! Don't move! Don't shoot! Don't shoot! He's doing as he's told. His hands are up. The police are coming. Aurora Police! Put your hands up! Very slowly! Lower that gun on the floor! Excellent job. All right. Go ahead and turn around, recover your weapons, and holster them, please. Okay. All of us, both groups, on the three-yard line, please. All right. Here we go. Stand by. Move. Fire!

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Stop them at the ten. Very good. When you're back, down, scan, and holster. Watch those trigger fingers. Yeah, so load all your mags to full capacity, please. Full battle rattle. You can leave all your stuff here if you need to. We're only going in for like 15 minutes. Why do you guys carry weapons? 'Cause you're expecting a gun fight. You guys are all expecting a gun fight. This is the reason most of you guys are here, right? Quick deployment to stop an active shooter, okay? I'm not here today for this part, okay? This is the part I'm here for. Okay? Once the bullets stop flying, once your shooter-- once your suspect's down, you're gonna have 30 kids-- a lot of kids might be dead, might be bleeding, might be dying, okay? So the two days of training that you guys are gonna get on weapons is gonna be good for about five minutes of this. It's all about stopping the blood loss. And the timeline you have for a good arterial bleed when somebody gets shot is about three minutes for irreversible damage where they're gonna die. I wish there was something I could tell you where it gets easier, and you're not thinking about that call or that situation for hours or days. It's just part of the job. It's war. You're gonna see the wounds of war. You're gonna see all the same injuries you see that these soldiers are seeing. That's why all of this came from the battlefield. All the research, all this movement towards tourniquets, blood loss, and getting this stuff out there, it's all from our soldiers, okay? Those that passed, they were the ones that sacrificed so that we have these lessons now. Get the flashlights out. Three rounds. Ready? Up!

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Eight rounds to the head. No flashlights. Ready. Up!

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Holster when you're done. Is anyone not holstered? Okay, good. Let's go have a look at these heads real quick. You can illuminate your targets. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

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Did you get eight out? I think I got eight. I got eight. I got seven.

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