[archy]

The students, the victims, at Columbine High School were big, tough high school students, and under ordinary circumstances they would not have had the time of day for a police officer. They were not bad kids; they just had nothing to say to a cop. When the school was under attack, however, and SWAT teams were clearing the rooms and hallways, the officers had to physically peel those clinging, sobbing kids off of them. This is how the little lambs feel about their sheepdog when the wolf is at the door.

Not quite. At least one of the SWAT teams clearing the schoolrooms at Columbine did so *clearing by fire* with automatic weapons fire into rooms in which surviving victims were present. Another fired full-auto bursts down a hallway to keep survivors in their rooms, and there's the particularly notorious example of the SWATzie cop who ordered the two students trying to stop coach William "Dave" Sanders from bleeding to death to *stop what he was doing* and get their hands up...whereupon Sanders bled to death in the school's SCI-3 science classroom.

At about 3:00 PM, about three hours after Klebold and Harris had reportedly *committed suicide* in the library....

[jjm2111]

I have a big dislike for the prevelance of SWAT teams and the militarization of police forces. Too much $$$ spent on blackhawk gear and balaclavas and not enough on training.

[beltfed308]

Thanks for that link. Good read!

[yarddog]

Columbine was one of the worst performances by the police I have ever heard of.

I kept thinking at the time, whey weren't they going inside to free those kids? I still don't know.