JFK "Terror" - False Threat Shenanigans

Similar event in Raleigh, NC at N.C.'s largest indoor mall: "shots" heard, panic, 911 lines and almost all cell towers jammed, people rush out of mall or into stores hiding in the back rooms. Police and SWAT teams arrive, lock down the mall, proceed to check everyone before allowing them to exit mall, people outside in heat for hours waiting to re-enter and get their belongings which they left in the panic. Either 12 or 16 people injured in the rush, taken to local hospitals. Result: no shooter, no firearm, no spent cartridges found. Two "bullet holes" found which turned out to be something else. No shooter or firearm on security video. Main E/W road, Hwy 70, shut down for hours, all N/S roads in vicinity crossing Hwy 70 shut down. No cars allowed to leave mall parking until SWAT had checked them out. Funny scene with Raleigh Policewoman refusing to allow howling TV truck drivers to approach mall. Valet parking customers unable to retrieve their cars because valets had locked up and scattered. Society is just a very thin hairline from being anarchy on any given day.
 
Similar event in Raleigh, NC at N.C.'s largest indoor mall: "shots" heard, panic, 911 lines and almost all cell towers jammed, people rush out of mall or into stores hiding in the back rooms. Police and SWAT teams arrive, lock down the mall, proceed to check everyone before allowing them to exit mall, people outside in heat for hours waiting to re-enter and get their belongings which they left in the panic. Either 12 or 16 people injured in the rush, taken to local hospitals. Result: no shooter, no firearm, no spent cartridges found. Two "bullet holes" found which turned out to be something else. No shooter or firearm on security video. Main E/W road, Hwy 70, shut down for hours, all N/S roads in vicinity crossing Hwy 70 shut down. No cars allowed to leave mall parking until SWAT had checked them out. Funny scene with Raleigh Policewoman refusing to allow howling TV truck drivers to approach mall. Valet parking customers unable to retrieve their cars because valets had locked up and scattered. Society is just a very thin hairline from being anarchy on any given day.

Have a SC State Trooper friend I used to work with who shared that the really stupid thing in that incident, was that the mall cops there are actually fully deputized city cops, but banned from carrying firearms. The city won't allow it.

He was called in to help clear the building and had to have one of them walk behind him, unarmed, to show him where to go in the building because he was armed and they weren't allowed to be.

Apparently it's all for PC-ness. Nobody can figure out a good reason why fully deputized officers aren't able to carry.

Talk about stupid... Clearing a building unarmed. Or being expected to do anything about an active shooter without being armed.
 
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