UPDATED: Police, school officials avert Middlebury middle school shooting

addisonindependent.com ^ | 12/20/2018 | John Flowers

[rktman]

MIDDLEBURY — Two 14-year-old Middlebury Union Middle School students have been indefinitely pulled from classes and face juvenile court citations after allegedly cooperating on a plan to shoot a fellow student and possibly others on campus today, Tuesday, Dec. 18.

• “There may be some other charges down the road, but right now it’s the treatment issues we’re dealing with.”

• “It was between a couple of kids. It may have been some bullying or that kind of stuff. We’re still trying to pull (the investigation) together. There have been a lot of interviews and statements given.”

• “We’ve talked to the state’s attorney and there may be some juvenile charges in the future”

Spearheading the investigation are Middlebury police Officer Nick Stewart, School Resource Officer Connor Sousa, Det. Kris Bowdish and Sgt. Mike Christopher.

[rktman]

Plotting to kill a classmate and not succeeding, here's your citation now don't do that any more okay.

[Politically Correct]

“We executed what is called an ‘extreme risk order’ (Monday) night at a relative’s house who had all these firearms,” Hanley said. “They were locked up (in the home), but one of these kids said he had access to them and could get them. So we took advantage of that extreme risk order statute that was passed. We needed to separate the person from their ability to do this.”

Hanley on Tuesday morning wasn’t sure of the exact inventory of the more than 10 confiscated weapons, but said they largely consisted of hunting rifles and handguns. He doesn’t believe any semi-automatic assault rifles or shotguns were among the bunch.

So they took the guns of a person not involved on the basis that the young perps were going to steal them.

Am I the only one that has a problem with this?

[Cold Heart]

Sounds like another Obama non-policing program that caused the Parkdale FL shootings.

On a positive note, I like how they put the date in the article.

[CatOwner]

So they took the guns of a person not involved on the basis that the young perps were going to steal them.

Am I the only one that has a problem with this?

You're not the only one. This just supports the narrative that taking guns away from everyone will solve our criminal problems.

[fruser1]

The next increment in the plan to totally disarm the public.

[rktman]

Seems like a preview of what lies ahead.

[from occupied ga]

What the police did was what you’d expect in any totalitarian regime. Thus proving three things:

1. The police are NOT your friends and
2. The police will violate your constitutional and God given rights for the flimsiest of excuses
3. Most police have an inner stasi/gestapo/NKVD that they desperately want to exercise.

Oh and did I mention the police are NOT on “our” side?

[Politically Correct]

Seems like a preview of what lies ahead.

Seems like deprivation of civil rights under color of law.

[rktman]

Civil whats?

[bigbob]

Gonna be a black mark on Their Permanent Record.

[_Jim]

re: “Civil whats?”

Civil ‘whites’ - it’s what you wear out in the fields at the prison farm ...

[Politically Correct]

Civil whats?

Heh!

Just a thought that there might be a nice settlement for six digits from the judge that let that one go through without benefit of law to back it.

[GreyHoundSailor]

I’ve read the VT law and see nothing about removing weapons from a ‘third party’, who presents neither a risk to himself or others. It’s the socialist Bernie supporters here, and our useless RINO Governor, that are pushing this garbage.

I don’t believe they would have had such cooperation if they’d tried this in the Northeast Kingdom.

Now that the VT legislature has a veto-proof majority for the next two years, I can only imagine the crap that will come next.