NY School Superintendent Disarms Gunman
June 10th, 2009
South Orangtown Middle School:
A school administrator wrestled a gun-toting former NYPD cop to the ground Tuesday after the crazed dad barged into a Rockland County school, furious his son got the swine flu, cops said…
Gun drawn, [Peter] Cocker strolled into the school past a security guard’s station about 11:30 a.m. The unarmed security agent called cops and in minutes, a SWAT team and several police units converged outside.
When the officer got to Mitchell’s office, they found the door had been barricaded and heard the sounds of a “violent struggle,” police said.
The officers blasted through the door with a shotgun.
By that point, Mitchell, 55, had already gained the upper hand.
This guy was obviously deranged, the superintendent acted heroically, and the story has a happy ending.
But if this idiot had gone in with the intent to kill large numbers of people, it appears that that unarmed security guard and the SWAT team would have been too late. Which is the way it will almost always be.
Tags: NY
June 10th, 2009 at 10:45 am
But…but…the assailant is a former cop. I thought agents of the state were the only people who could be trusted with firearms?!
June 10th, 2009 at 10:51 am
Isn’t the swine flu less virulent than the regular flu that kids come home with every other week? I think he is misdirecting his anger – the virus was obviously the culprit. Or maybe he should shoot some pigs.
June 10th, 2009 at 10:56 am
I thought agents of the state were the only people who could be trusted with firearms?!
Quiet, you. The important thing is that guns might have harmed children or something.