Vice principal lets armed gunmen into Ohio school to protect them from police
"I confirmed the interior doors were locked and instructed the four suspects to come to the vestibule because it was unsafe to be outside because I saw police officers," a vice principal said.
Yes, you read that correctly! Schools are Gun Free Zones! What are the laws concerning violating a “Gun Free Zone”?
There was a Gun Free Zone Act of 1990 and a Gun Free Zone Act of 1994, which encouraged each state receiving Federal funds for education to follow suit and introduce their own laws known as Zero Tolerance Laws. The parameters and prosecution are basically the same:
The term school zone means in or on the grounds of a public, parochial, or private school, or within a distance of 1,000 feet from school grounds. The term school means a school which provides elementary or secondary education. The penalty for violating the Gun-Free School Zones Act involves a fine of not more than $5,000, imprisonment for up to 5 years, or both.
In a story from PM., (Post Millenial):
On September 14, four masked teenagers armed with guns arrived at Garret Morgan High School in Cleveland, Ohio and despite 911 dispatcher and school security advising against it "two assistant principals from leadership let the males into the building" to protect them from police arriving on the scene.
The four masked males arrived in three stolen cars in the afternoon and, as local WDTN News reports, the school security officer immediately spotted the suspicious group, alerted both the school and authorities and locked the doors.
While the school was in lockdown, police were dispatched to the scene. While the security officer is on the phone with 911 he shouts, "Do not let them in the building" and "Do not let anybody through that door, people."
In video from Yahoo! News, the security officer and another party can be heard screaming "Don't let them in the building" continually as the vice principals approached the masked and armed teens.
According to the Cleveland Metro Schools website, the vice principals at Garret Morgan High School are Christopher Kane and Carolyn Elias who work under principals Anshawn M. Ivery.
The high school, the Garret Morgan School of Leadership & Innovation, was in session at the time and teaches roughly 285 students in grades 9 through 12.
Two of the three were sent home on their own recognizance as they await juvenile prosecution. One teen who was in possession of a gun was detained and records show he is wanted in an unrelated robbery case.
The Cleveland Metropolitan School District defended the principals.
A comment from the National Fraternal Order of Police:
In a recent post of mine, I said that gun laws are meant to infringe on the rights of law-abiding Americans while basically not affecting criminals.
We'll have to see how it plays out for the criminals with the guns. Apparently, the vice-principals who LET THE GUN CARRYING CRIMINALS INTO THE SCHOOL were not even arrested and will get off scott free!
I rest my case!
😲 WOW! 😲 I mean, like, WOW! 😲
At least they were compliant "bad" guys. At least the police showed up. ....And didn't kill everybody, including the principals.
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