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Border Patrol Union Blasts Homeland Security Instructions To 'Run Away' And 'Hide' From Gunmen
Border Patrol agents in Arizona are blasting their bosses for telling them, along with all other Department of Homeland Security employees, to run and hide if they encounter an "active shooter."
It's one thing to tell civilian employees to cower under a desk if a gunman starts spraying fire in a confined area, say members of Tucson Local 2544/National Border Patrol Council, but to give armed law enforcement professionals the same advice is downright insulting. The instructions from DHS come in the form of pamphlets and a mandatory computer tutorial.
We are now taught in an Active Shooter course that if we encounter a shooter in a public place we are to run away and hide" union leader Brandon Judd wrote on the website of 3,300-member union local. If we are cornered by such a shooter we are to (only as a last resort) become aggressive and throw things at him or her. We are then advised to call law enforcement and wait for their arrival (presumably, while more innocent victims are slaughtered)."
The FEMA-administered computer course, entitled IS-907- Active Shooter: What You Can Do, is a 45-minute tutorial that provides guidance to all employees on how to recognize indicators of possible workplace violence and what to do should their office be invaded by gunmen and focuses around three main options; either evacuate, hide out, or in dire circumstances, take action.
Once the course is completed, employees are urged to download additional materials including a summary booklet and pocket-sized card outlining protocol, which was also handed out to employees two months ago.
One DHS employee told FoxNews.com the instruction cards were handed out to employees six weeks ago. At the time, he assumed they were only for civilian employees, not armed law enforcement officers within the department, which oversees the U.S. Customs and Border Protection...
Read more: Border Patrol union blasts Homeland Security instructions to 'run away' and 'hide' from gunmen | Fox News
That's really GOOD advice since all Janet will give the border patrol is rubber bullets.. Eric gives the drug cartels AK 47"s.. that's how much they love the illegals.
The saddest part of this Willow, is we can't even make this up like a fantasy horror moment. Border agents being forced to arm themselves with bean bag ammunition while you walk major heavy duty weapons across the border to crazy mother trucking drug cartels who are now sawing the heads off rival gang members.
Bean bag ammo. Bean bag freaking ammo. I have to keep saying it to myself over and over to try to get a grip on it so I don't have a complete meltdown.
What an insane policy!