Some people are gonna be mad about this post. You will not be the first, You will not be the last.
Today at West High School a gun went off and a bullet grazed a School employee. The juvenile was supposedly taken to Juvenile. The gun was reportedly in a backpack.
In Police Officer training, it is taught that a gun never unintentionally fires. It is also taught that a gun requires 8-10 lb of force to pull a trigger.
A month ago, the Nashville Covenant Shooting occurred, killing three nine year olds and three adults. The last two Monday’s several high school students told the Knox County Commissioners they were scared and the Commission of NO, ignored them pandering instead to the gun protector pirate and others.
Let us review the difference in Anthony Thompson, Jr. and the student at West High School. It has been reported that Thompson was threatened by an adult male for after school. If that is true, he possessed a gun to protect himself after school. He was biding his time in the bathroom, until KPD entered and took him out, literally.
Could the student at West just have had a gun for protection? How with Knox Schools having so many School Security employees and Knox Police and Knox Sheriff having Peace Officers assigned to the schools could this happen?. Former Schools Security Chief Gus Paidousis and now School Security Chief Jason R. Periard and here we are, still having lapses in secured schools.
It is time for serious changes to protect School staff, students and the community. Its time for school security to report to the Governor or maybe the Knox County Mayor. The School Board and School Administration need to focus on education.
I will refrain from the West High Principal releasing a statement that a loud sound was heard, which was seconds before KPD released that a gun was fired.
My anonymous source that told me Knox Schools asked Knoxville Police why They were reporting that it was a gun. If my source is accurate, clearly there is no consistent protocol after three or four Knox School Security Chiefs and one Anthony Thompson, Jr. is dead in a Knox County School and schools are no safer than they were before Schools began security department, decades ago.
