The incident, which occurred early Wednesday morning, was prompted by a call to the San Diego County Sheriff’s office of a bald white male, wearing a black shirt and jeans and walking across campus carrying a rifle. This resulted in a shelter-in place order for some 400 staff and students going through orientation before the start of the fall session. Rapidly, facility and classmates banded together to barricade doors with tables and chairs, expecting the worst.
The situation resolved itself after 30 minutes when an umbrella-bearing teacher figured out he matched the description of the alleged gunman and surrendered to law enforcement.
Even after the owner of the lethal umbrella informed police of their error he was still treated as a potential threat. Police leveled the rifles at him and placed him in cuffs. Is it any wonder that everyday somewhere in this nation police kill someone?
This calls to mind the incident at Oberlin College where classes were cancelled in response to a sighting of a man in a Klan robe which turned out to be a girl in a blanket.
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