At East High School, two administrators were shot while patting down a student who was on a “safety plan.” The student’s past behavior, the police chief said, warranted daily pat-downs. Another student was shot and killed outside the school last month.
and everyday shootings have prompted Democrats to push stricter new gun laws; and in a nation where drills and lockdowns so often disrupt school days that some children feel inured to them.was shot outside the school
“I’m more desensitized to it than anything,” said Finn McGirk, 16, a sophomore who was in the auditorium for the assembly when Tuesday’s lockdown was announced. He estimated that he’d experienced “10 to 20” lockdowns or alerts of some nature — some bomb threats; most false alarms — in his time at East. “It’s scary, but it still somehow feels far away to me.”But the violence has galvanized others.
, telling the school board in the fall: “This is a city of Denver issue. This is a county, a state issue — quite frankly, a national phenomenon in terms of access to guns.” Weapon confiscations at district schools have soared since the pandemic, rising from 40 in the 2018-2019 school year to 200 last school year, according to data obtained by Chalkbeat.“I’m deeply sorry that we’re here,” Marrero said Wednesday at a news conference Wednesday.
Police had been present outside the school at the start and end of the day for the past month, Thomas said, but Marrero said no school resource officers were in the school to carry out the pat-down of the student. That’s district policy: The Denver school board in 2020 voted to remove school resource officers, which were provided by the city police department, from campuses. On Wednesday, Marrero
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