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Schools established lockdown procedures and training for teachers to lock and barricade doors, turn off lights and have students kneel on the floor out of sight from windows in doors. A lack of situational awareness was on display during the 1999 Columbine school attack, when frantic staff failed to lock doors and hid students beneath tables, using tornado drill instructions.Īfter the Columbine massacre, training of school officials and law enforcement officials kicked into high gear. During the 2015 San Bernardino terrorist attack inside a government building, onlookers believed the sounds of guns firing was simply "construction noise." During the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting, the armed gunman - looking for the most targets - peered three or four times into several classrooms over a short period of time without arousing any suspicion or physical confrontation. Whaley took detailed looks at several mass and school shootings, and the almost "evolutionary" game being played out between active shooters and law enforcement tasked with stopping them.įor example, during a 1980 church shooting in Dangerfield, Texas, congregation members thought an armed shooter wearing camouflage was part of a fictional reenactment. There was a reason why boxes of tissues were present and there were more than a few wet eyes throughout the auditorium during Whaley's PowerPoint presentation.
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The better our situational awareness is to what's around us - not just in a school setting and not just within a business setting, but inside a restaurant, a movie theater, a park - all of these principles apply to how to respond to a threat or to an active shooter." "The more we are trained, trained and trained, the better we can respond to them. They fell into their old rhythm with ease, but doubtfully it won't be that way for the others.Īs frustrating as Jasmine was during the premiere, especially knowing how much some of us wanted Jasmine and Ruby's endgame, it still sucks that Ruby dumped her."Shooting events are going to occur," he said. : Jamal, when have I ever taken Ruby's side?Īnd he's willing to work on that and work on the critical balance, and he can do it better now that he and Ruby are friends again.Jamal: I assumed you would take Ruby's side.Ībuelita: Jamal, when have I ever taken Ruby's side? This version of Jamal will be interesting moving forward, as he's still a cool kid who knows how to spin things to his advantage (his bitches be bonkers response video was brilliant), but he has recognized parts of himself that have changed too much that he doesn't like. Sure, Abuelita is Ruby's grandmother, not Jamal's, but she was right - when has she ever taken Ruby's side over Jamal? She's unapologetic about her favoritism.

You could see something shift in him during the flashback when Ruby led the charge with Jamal, confronting Cesar about him (and Oscar) stealing the Rollerworld money.

We couldn't get a read on how he felt deep down about the Cuchillos news or if he's as afraid as he should be about what'll happen when the Santos find out.Ĭesar: I already told you, I don't have it and neither does my brother.Ĭesar: Compa, please you gotta believe me.Ĭesar had glimmers of moments, like when he learned Isabelle was having a girl or when the only number that he remembered was Monse, and it looked as if he had hoped she'd answer.īut so far, the Cesar we know appears gone or at least buried deep down, and it'll take a lot to get him back. They were still behaving as if she was the one calling orders, so when the rest of the Santos learns that Cesar lied to them and likely assumes that he killed her, he'll lose them as well.įor the first two installments, Cesar felt inaccessible.
