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[sendec]

If I were an adminisistrator for either the school or police I would insist the kids get medically cleared, largely due to potentially liability purposes, but I would also think that it would just be the "right" thing to do. Let some pretty nurses and nice doctors fuss over them, flush them with saline, and give'em some tokes of O2 and SpongeBob stickers. Can you imagine the outcry if the police just left them face down in the nearest drinking fountain?

This actually sounds like a textbook example of restraint and low-key law enforcement. What could have turned int a gunfight got defused with minimal collateral damage.

As for the perp's "violent crime", not giving him the opportunity to commit one counts as a win.

 

[c_yeager]

As im sure anyone who works in a club or other such environment can tell you, OC and pepper spray work VERY differently indoors versus outdoors. The spray disperses VERY quickly outside. If you happen to be inside a restaraunt or other such open indoor environment (class room) when someone lets off some pepper-spray you will know it right away. ive seen entire clubs get cleared out within five minutes of some idiot playing with his can of pepper spray.

Oh, and washington state doesnt have the 1000 ft law. It is however illegal to carry ON the school property unless your dropping off or picking up a student. So if the guy has a kid there he is OK

 

[BluesBear]

This all happened just a few miles from my home. My roomate drives a school bus for the district and drove for this school last year.

Anytime a child comes in contact with any substance that can cause breathing or vision problems paramedics must be summoned IMEDIATELY! It would then be the paramedics decision if a trip to the ER is needed.

As for using OC in the classroom, this person abandoned his minivan on the curb outside the school, ran into a classroom, this is an older school that has doors both leading into inside hallways and to the outside. As he ran into the classroom was reaching in side his pants and the officer tackled him.

As I understand it the officer on patrol outside the school observed this guy speeding through the School Zone and ran his plates. Upon finding outstanding warrants he attempted to pull him over. That's when all the fun started.

 

[Matt1911]

While in thier CARE,a schools job is not only to teach,but to CARE for the kids,i don't find it unreasonable at all to have them checked.