02-13-15 - Long Branch Public Schools

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SLATT Terrorism updates
Police: Dangerous holes in school security
1 dead 4 hurt in ABQ shootings
Peshawar teachers now armed
Student airlifted after drill
Teen’s vulgar rap song points at coach
When parents cause safety issues
Guns at schools
Canned goods...?
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Activity Summary:
On November 21, 2012, Shelton Thomas Bell, 19, of Jacksonville, Florida, and a juvenile were deported from Jordan
to the United States. On July 18, 2013, a federal grand jury
in Jacksonville returned an indictment charging them with
conspiring and attempting to provide material support to terrorists. Bell was detained in the Duval County, Florida, Jail
on unrelated charges. On March 19, 2014, Bell pled guilty,
and on January 14, 2015, he was sentenced to 20 years in
prison.
Related Event(s):
July 18, 2013 — Jacksonville, Florida: On July 18, 2013, a
federal grand jury in Jacksonville, Florida, returned an indictment charging Shelton Thomas Bell, 19, of Jacksonville, with
conspiring and attempting to provide material support to terrorists. The indictment alleged that between May 2012 and
September 2012, Bell and others engaged in physical,
firearms, and other training in preparation for armed conflict
in the Middle East, which Bell described as "the actions of
jihad." As part of their training, in July 2012, Bell and another
person conducted a late night training mission that involved
the destruction of religious statues in a multidenominational
cemetery. To prepare for their mission, they dressed in black
clothing, wore tactical gloves and masks, and wrapped their
shoes in black duct tape to avoid leaving footprints. Bell
brought a loaded 9-mm pistol with him "in case any kuffar
want to cause any trouble." Other training sessions included
a homemade firing range and impromptu battlefield lessons
that were recorded for uploading to the Internet to recruit others. At the conclusion of one training session, Bell placed the
U.S. flag on a machete, burned it, and commented that the
flag was "burning to the ground by the mujahidin's hands." In
September 2012, Bell and a juvenile flew from Jacksonville
to Tel Aviv, Israel, where they were detained by Israeli officials
and deported to Poland. From there, Bell and the juvenile
traveled to Jordan to stay with the juvenile's relatives. While
in Jordan, Bell and the juvenile contacted another person to
assist in their plan of joining AAS.
They also bought airline tickets to
Oman, intending to fly to Oman and
walk across the border to Yemen to join
the conflict. During their travel, they
took steps to avoid detection by law enforcement. They were deported from
Jordan to the United States in November 2012. Bell told Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents, "If you ask me
if [I] was going for jihad in Yemen, I say
yes." Bell confirmed that they sought to
join AAS and explained that several
groups were affiliated with AAS, including al Qaeda and the Taliban.
January 14,
2015 - Colerain,
Ohio;
and
Green
To w n s h i p ,
Ohio: On January 14, 2015,
Federal Bureau
of Investigation
(FBI) agents
a r r e s t e d
Christopher Lee Cornell, 20, of Green
Township, Ohio, after he purchased two
Armalite M-15 5.56-mm semiautomatic
rifles and 600 rounds of ammunition
from a store in Colerain, Ohio, for
$1,900 in cash. Charges included attempting to kill a U.S. government official and possession of a firearm in
furtherance of attempted crime of violence. During a November 2014 meeting with an FBI informant, Cornell stated
that he wanted to launch an attack on
the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. He
allegedly planned to detonate pipe
bombs in the Capitol and then open fire
on individuals as they fled. After the
meeting, Cornell allegedly saved
money to finance the attack and conducted research on how to make
bombs. Allegedly, Cornell posted statements, videos, and other content expressing support for the Islamic State of
Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known
as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
(ISIS) on social media sites, including
Twitter. In one post, Cornell allegedly
wrote, "I believe that we should just
wage jihad under our own orders and
plan attacks and everything. … We already got a thumbs up from the Brothers over there and Anwar al Awlaki
before his martyrdom and many others."
December 30, 2014, to January 5,
2015 - Baltimore, Maryland; Banjul,
GAMBIA; and Minneapolis, Minnesota:
On December 30, 2014, several people
attacked the State House in Banjul,
Gambia, in an attempt to overthrow the
government. The coup attempt was
vented by security guards. On January
5, 2015, the U.S. Department of Justice
announced a criminal complaint charging Cherno Njie, 57, and Papa Faal, 46,
for their roles in the attack. The men are
charged with conspiring to violate the
Neutrality Act by making an expedition
against a friendly nation from the United
States and conspiring to possess
firearms in furtherance of a crime of violence. Allegedly, the men traveled separately to Gambia as part of the coup
attempt. Njie, a U.S. citizen of Gambian
descent who resides in Austin, Texas,
allegedly led and financed the conspiracy. If the coup succeeded, he planned
to serve as Gambia’s interim leader.
Faal is a dual U.S./Gambian citizen who
resides in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota.
Prior to traveling to Gambia, Faal and
approximately ten conspirators purchased body armor; ammunition; multiple
firearms,
including
M-4
semiautomatic rifles; and other equipment and shipped the items to Gambia
for use in the coup. Both men are in
custody in the United States. Njie will
make an initial appearance in federal
court in Baltimore, Maryland. Faal will
make his initial appearance in federal
court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
School Safety & Security News
Walter J. O’Neill, Jr, SBTRVA
District Public Safety Liaison
Long Branch Public Schools
540 Broadway
Long Branch, NJ 07740
732-571-2868, Ext. 40911
email
[email protected]
Police: Dangerous holes in
school-shooting prevention
strategy
Printed in: YLE UUTUSET
February 2, 2015
A handful of viable threats are intercepted each year, law enforcers say,
but complain that agencies’ abilities to
prevent school massacres are hampered by a lack of information-sharing
and unclear lines of responsibility.
Police have warned of potentially dangerous gaps in agencies’ abilities to
prevent murderous attacks on schools
and colleges in Finland.
Despite improvements in the way authorities try to prevent school shootings,
since 19 people were killed in two massacres in 2007 and 2008, there remain
worrying shortcomings in the way potential threats are dealt with, according
to law enforcement agencies.
hold of weapons. They may even have
a hit list. But we can never know if they
would have gone through with it,” he
says.
If a crime has not yet been committed,
or a person has been fined for threatening behaviour, police lack the means to
follow that person continuously.
Savolainen said that in these cases the
criminal process does not generally “improve” the situation, nor does the punishment make the problem go away.
One such case came to light last June,
when a man and a woman, both aged
24, were convicted and imprisoned for
a plot to kill some 50 people at the University of Helsinki using guns and poison gas.
During the trial it emerged that the pair
had formerly issued threats against
schools, and the young woman had received a fine for making armed threats.
Risk reports increased
Police researcher Marko Savolainen
says that under the current system, no
single agency has responsibility for
cases in which a youngster cannot be
diagnosed with mental health problems,
but is still clearly a danger to others.
Officially, the number of school threats
has decreased, but the numbers of risk
reports reaching Helsinki police’s Anchor team, charged with monitoring and
preventing threatening behaviour, have
in fact gone up.
”If a young person admits to planning a
mass murder, but is not psychotic or
mentally ill or in need of care, the door
is open to them. No-one is responsible
for deciding what should be done with
them,” Savolainen said.
Last year police across Finland received 65 reports of threats against
schools, significantly higher than in
other Nordic countries.
Savolainen said police intercept around
five viable threats of school attacks
every year, and believes that a handful
of these would have gone on to be real
attacks.
”They have gone to the location, got
”I don’t know what’s causing it. Have
authorities been more diligent with classifying a situation as risky, or are we
coming across more cases?” asks the
team’s psychiatric nurse Krista Juurikko.
The Anchor team carry out preventative
police work, and its members contain
social workers and nurses.
Helsinki police say they are frustrated
that care programmes for young people
at risk almost never work. Either the
young people aren’t identified in the first
place, or they cannot be placed on a
special care programme, or they are
bounced around from agency to
agency.
”They say that child protection will look
after them, or psychiatric services will
look after them, or school. So no-one is
responsible for the young person’s
care,” Juurikko says.
More training
She calls on doctors at schools and
local health centres to be more active in
making referrals. Or she says there
should be more psychiatric training in
how to spot warning signs in young
people.
Many of the young people investigated
by the Anchor team have been known
to agencies for years, sometimes since
before primary school age.
Paper records may show that a young
person is on a care programme, while
in reality they are not attending. Sometimes Juurikko’s colleagues physically
collect young people from home to take
them to appointments, or at least phone
them to check up.
”This is manual work,” she says.
Police would like more access to information about young people who could
pose a risk to others.
Current data protection regulations
prevent a doctor from sharing information about a patient with police, even if
the police were the ones who brought
in a young person to see the doctor in
the first place.
Zero tolerance
Savolainen of the Police Board says
they do not want details of the diagnosis, but simply a green or red light
about whether the case is being handled.
”There should be a system of checks,
making it possible to know whether a
person who may pose a risk is receiving care, and whether they are still
considered a threat,” he said.
Some law enforcers have called for a
debate over whether the criteria for
forcing a young person to undergo
treatment should be relaxed.
”Our duty to society is that when we
know that someone says they want to
cause harm to another person, we
must be able to react and stop that
happening,” Savolainen said.
Police also call for a zero-tolerance
policy in schools, and more referrals.
They say that co-operation and recognising the risks have improved since
the massacres at Kauhajoki and
Jokela schools.
Numbers of threats tend to increase
when there is news coverage of the
issue. Savolainen says he hopes that
will not be the case this time.
”Although these killings were many
years ago, we must remember that
this is not just about preventing massacres, but also looking after young
people with problems to stop them
growing into school shooters,”
Savolainen said.
1 dead, 4 injured in separate
ABQ shootings
Posted by: KRQE News 13
February 2, 2015
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Sunday
was a violent night in Albuquerque as
officers were called out to multiple
shooting scenes.
The Albuquerque Police Department
was called out to a shooting on Golf
Course Road near Irving in northwest
Albuquerque where at least one person
was shot and rushed to UNM Hospital.
The name and condition of the victim
has not been released. Video shows
police tape blocking off a section of
Ventana Canyon Apartments in the
area.
Less than 30 minutes before the shooting on Golf Course Road, police responded to a separate shooting at Rio
Grande Boulevard and Rice. Three
people were rushed to the hospital, and
one of them had life-threatening injuries. Police would not say exactly
where the shooting took place, but they
did mention they were talking with people inside one of the homes in the area
and other people in the neighborhood
to see how the three people who were
shot knew each other and what exactly
happened in the moments leading up to
the shooting.
Police also responded to the scene of a
third shooting in southeast Albuquerque
near California Street and Cochiti Road
that left one person dead. Officers said
this incident began with a crash and
when they arrived, they heard what they
believed to be a gunshot.
Officers found a driver of one of the vehicles in the crash with what appeared
to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound and
a weapon on the seat. That person died
at the scene. The driver was taken to
the hospital with injuries only from the
crash.
All of the shootings took place not long
after the Super Bowl ended.
“It seems like after the Super Bowl
ended, it broke out in the city,” said Officer Simon Drobik on Sunday night.
“We also have a rollover accident on
the freeway. Bernalillo’s working a
rollover fatal accident on the edge of
town so we’re very busy tonight with police actions.”
At this point, it’s unknown if there are
shooters on the run.
Albuquerque police sent a release Monday morning asking citizens to be vigilant of their surroundings and to be
good witnesses. They ask if residents
see something, they remain at the
scene and speak with police.
Police have not released any names in
any of the incidents. They also say they
don’t have the conditions of any of the
individuals who were shot.
Albuquerque police say since the start
of 2015, they have been called to 22
shooting investigations. Of those, eight
have been violent crime calls. In the
past two days, police began investigating four separate shooting calls which
have all been violent call outs.
After terrifying school massacre, Peshawar teachers
pack guns
CNN, 02-05-15
Peshawar, Pakistan (CNN)On the principal's desk at the Peshawar's Government High School for Boys sits a screen
beaming surveillance video from
around the campus.
northwest frontier, have been instructed
by the government to arrange security
guards and metal detectors.
School officials remain tight-lipped
about the threats they've received from
militants, but stories have emerged of
In one of the desk's drawers, within
easy reach of Abdul Saeed's right hand,
lies a fully loaded pistol.
A teacher for 15 years, Saeed argues
that bringing a gun to school reassures
his students, who are still terrified after
a brazen attack on the Army Public
School and Degree College in December, when Taliban militants stormed the
building and massacred dozens of students during a six-hour siege.
A soldier walks outside the Pakistani
school that was attacked by members
of the Pakistani Taliban on Tuesday,
December 16. CNN cameraman Javed
Iqbal took these photos (go to CNN to
see them) in the aftermath of the attack, which killed more than 140 people.
"They would look to the door every time
they heard a sound. Now when they
see me wearing a gun, they need not
worry and can focus on the task at
hand, which is to educate themselves,"
Saeed says.
School security increased
Barbed wire, surveillance cameras and
snipers have become a common sight
in the schools of this Pakistani city. Private schools in the province of Khyber
Pakhtunkua, which lies along Pakistan's
school teacher who has been a member of the Executive Council of Peshawar's Primary Teacher Association
for more than 20 years, is shocked by
the decision.
"Why would you glorify guns?" he asks.
"If teachers take guns into classroom it
glorifies this deadly weapon in the eyes
of children, and in the future it could inspire them to seek out guns, misuse
them and cause more tragedies to take
place."
"Teachers are meant to teach," he
adds.
empty coffins being sent to principals as
an ominous suggestion of the danger
that could lie ahead.
After the brutal attack, Pakistan Taliban
spokesman Mohammed Khurrassani
told CNN the bloodshed was revenge
for the killing of hundreds of innocent
tribesmen during repeated army operations in provinces including South
Waziristan, North Waziristan and the
Khyber Agency.
Last month, the provincial government
pledged to spend seven billion rupees
($69 million) on enhancing security at
government run schools in Khyber
Pakhtunkhua. However, KPK information minister Mushtaq Ghani says it is
still not enough prevent in an attack on
the 35,000 government-run schools in
the province.
So, in an extraordinary measure, the
KPK government has allowed teachers
with firearm licenses to keep guns at
school.
Why glorify guns?
Umar Daraz, a mild mannered primary
At a shooting range in Peshawar, the
Khyber Pakhtunkua police force has
started basic weapon training sessions
for teachers interested in learning how
to use firearms.
Faisal Mukhtar, a police superintendent,
says that one of the reasons given for
arming teachers is so they can hold militants at bay during a potential attack
until security forces arrive.
Around 20 female teachers have already received training from Inspector
Rozia Altaf. Most had never held a gun
before.
"The tragedy of December 16 has emboldened these women," Altaf tells
CNN. "Most of them were mothers and
they were helpless then -- they will be
never helpless again."
Regardless of the day's training,
Mukhtar says none of the teachers involved have expressed interest in obtaining a gun license.
Continued next page
'Extraordinary times'
of Appeals ruled.
Back at the principal's office, Saeed
places the gun on his desk and shares
his experience of volunteering at hospitals on the day of the attack.
A student identified in the court ruling as
I.R. was legally blind and had osteoporosis.
As a sixth-grader, he had no trouble
with required school-bus drills that
teach students how to use the emergency exit. With other students, I.R.
safely navigated a four-foot drop from
the emergency exit to the pavement.
His eyes tear up as he recalls seeing
schoolboys as young as 12 with bullet
wounds that would not be uncommon
on a battlefield.
February 2, 2015
A student with disabilities suffered serious injuries during a school bus safety
drill. Was the school liable?
A school district didn’t “shock the conscience” when it came to protecting a
vulnerable student, a Third Circuit Court
The court said the district was entitled
to trust the driver to meet his legal duties – and didn’t have any reason to
suspect he wouldn’t or that the students
he supervised would be at risk of serious injury.
Robinson v. Peirce, No. 13-3136, 2014
WL 4801272 (3d Cir. 9/29/14).
Teen’s vulgar rap song
claims coaches
sexually harassed girls
"After what I have seen I refuse to be
helpless and unarmed if anyone
comes in to attack my students the
way [the militants] did in December.
Student airlifted to hospital
after safety drill mishap
To state a valid claim, the family had to
show the district committed wrongdoing
that shocked the conscience. They didn’t show that.
As the conduct didn’t shock the conscience, the Third Circuit affirmed the
ruling for the district.
He brushes away those who criticize
the decision to bring in guns to
schools, saying "these are extraordinary times and we must deal with
them in extraordinary ways.
"We were once warriors of the chalk
and the blackboard. Now we must be
soldiers at war and fight for the cause
of education and a brighter future for
our children."
Amendment right to personal bodily integrity.
But in seventh grade, I.R. landed badly,
broke one of his thigh bones and had to
be airlifted to a hospital.
Bus driver didn’t follow protocol
The state’s school-bus driver’s manual
requires drivers to supervise the drill by
the emergency exit at the back of the
bus.
Instead, the driver that day stayed in the
driver’s seat. He and the bus company
settled I.R.’s family’s claims against
them.
The family brought a Section 1983
claim against the school district, alleging it breached I.R.’s Fourteenth
The Fifth Circuit has held a student’s
rap song is protected speech, so the
school can’t discipline him for it.
School discipline wasn’t appropriate because:
* The student wrote, recorded and
posted it to the web while off campus
and on his own time.
* The song didn’t cause a school disruption.
* While it used the “hyperbolic and violent language” common to rap, in that
context such words “convey emotion
and meaning” – not threats.
‘A pistol down your mouth – Pow’
Taylor Bell, Mississippi senior and aspiring rap artist, wrote a rap song about
female friends’ claims that two male
coaches sexually harassed them.
school policy but acknowledged any
threat posed by the rap “was vague.”
He was sent to an alternative school.
Taylor sued, alleging the discipline violated his First Amendment rights.
A federal court found it didn’t, but on appeal, the Fifth Circuit found it did.
U.S. Supreme Court exceptions to the
rule that public schools can’t discipline
students for exercising their free speech
rights didn’t apply here.
The rap song didn’t cause a disruption
to school work or discipline, it was offcampus speech, and it didn’t constitute
a “true threat.”
So Taylor’s record was expunged.
The song mentioned the coaches’ last
names plus the F and N words – and it
warned: “[G]onna get a pistol down your
mouth/Pow[.]”
Taylor uploaded the song to his Facebook page and YouTube.
He was charged with violating school
policy by harassing and intimidating the
coaches.
At his expulsion hearing, Taylor said
that he meant to imply the girls’ families
might respond with violence – not that
he would do so.
He also said he dealt with the problem
this way rather than reporting it to the
office as administrators ignored such
reports.
School admits threat is ‘vague’
School officials said Taylor violated
Bell v. Itawamba County School Board,
No. 12-60264, 2014 WL 7014371 (5th
Cir. 12/12/14).
When parents cause safety
and security problems
At one time or another, every school official has had to deal with a problem
parent. Here are two examples that led
to legal hassles:
California
The Poway Unified School District has
filed what a parent is calling a “strategic
lawsuit against public participation” or
SLAPP lawsuit.
Basically, the suit seeks to permanently
block Chris Garnier from volunteering at
Painted Rock Elementary School and
making remarks about school officials.
(The district got a temporary restraining
order last fall.)
Garnier is an African-American and former Marine. He claims the suit stems
from racism at the school and violates
his speech rights under the First
Amendment.
The district’s complaint claims Garnier
has caused safety concerns by exhibiting threatening behavior at school, such
as:
1. pounding on car windows to get the
attention of other parents
2. verbally threatening the school principal, and
3. disrupting a 2014 parent-teacher
group meeting.
Garnier asked the court to dismiss the
case, saying the suit was filed to block
him from exercising his speech rights.
Representing the district, attorney Jack
Sleeth filed a response, saying the case
shouldn’t be dismissed because Garnier has “assaulted, yelled at and harassed the administrators, employees
and parents” at the elementary school.
San Diego Superior Court Judge Tamila
E. Ipema rejected Garnier’s anti-SLAPP
claim. The case will move forward to
determine whether the temporary restraining order should become permanent.
Vermont
The Addison Rutland Supervisory
Union (ARSU) has agreed to pay nearly
$150,000 to settle claims brought by the
American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont on behalf of a parent who was
banned from school district property.
Parent Marcel Cyr was twice served notrespass orders (2011 and 2012) that
barred him from ARSU school campuses and board meetings.
School officials said they had safety
concerns due to Cyr’s:
1. physical size and loud voice, and
2. harsh comments about the education
his son was receiving in the district.
Cyr moved his family to another district,
and the ACLU filed suit on his behalf,
claiming a violation of his speech rights.
The district agreed to pay $147,500 to
settle the claim. Cyr will receive about
$40,000 of the award. The rest will go
toward legal fees.
Discussing the settlement, Superintendent Ron Ryan said, “We’re always
looking at safety first. That’s what’s so
difficult here. From a superintendent’s
standpoint, I’ll always look at safety first
whether I’ve lost a case or not.”
Indiana
The Indiana Supreme Court declined to
review a negligence case surrounding
the 2011 shooting at Martinsville West
Middle School.
Eighth-graders Michael Phelps and C.J.
didn’t get along. Then things went from
bad to worse when they started dating
the same girl.
After making threats on Facebook,
Michael was suspended, pending expulsion. Evading school security
guards, Michael made his way into the
school and shot C.J. in the stomach.
C.J. and his parents sued, claiming
negligence. The school asked for judgment without a trial, but the court refused.
An appeals court affirmed the ruling and
remanded the case. The school asked
the state’s high court to review the case,
but it refused by a 4-1 ruling.
So the case will proceed to trial.
Connecticut
Jesse Lewis and Noah Pozner were
two of the 26 victims who were killed in
the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary
School in December 2012.
Post-shooting lawsuits:
3 recent updates
Oftentimes, lawsuits are filed in the aftermath of school shootings. Here are
three recent updates:
The boys’ parents have filed a wrongful
death suit against the town of Newtown,
Connecticut and the school’s board of
education, claiming security measures
at the school were inadequate.
Specifically, the suit alleges the school
failed to train a substitute teacher about
the school’s lockdown procedures and
failed to give her a key that would’ve allowed her to lock the classroom door as
soon as shots were fired.
The substitute teacher and all but one
of her 20 students were killed in the attack.
The suit seeks more than $15,000 in
damages.
California
In January 2013, former student Bryan
Oliver opened fire at Taft Union High
School, shooting a classmate in the
chest.
Oliver pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 27 years in prison.
Now his family has filed suit against the
school, claiming it failed to follow bullying and sexual harassment policies.
The suit alleges school officials knew
Oliver was repeatedly bullied, as classmates:
1. made fun of him for having red hair
and being overweight
2. yelled homophobic slurs at him, and
3. sexually assaulted him in one instance.
The suit seeks more than $5 million in
damages.
Canned goods:
Promising or problematic?
Auburn University’s Department of Public Safety.
How the cans fit into school safety
plans
Under ALICE, teachers are trained to
barricade classroom doors. But history
has shown that sometimes intruders get
in, despite the school’s best efforts.
The last week of January an Alabama
middle school principal’s letter to parents received national attention. The
letter’s focus: asking for canned goods
to improve school safety.
W.F. Burns Middle School principal
Priscilla Holley sent a letter to parents,
asking them to send an 8-ounce
canned item to school with their child.
The reason, Holley’s letter explained,
was that “the canned food item will give
the students a sense of empowerment
to protect themselves and will make
them feel secure in case an intruder enters their classroom.”
To put Holley’s statement into perspective, the “canned food” defense is a
small portion of the district’s school security plan, which is following the ALICE
program.
As you’re probably aware, ALICE is an
acronym for Alert, Lockdown, Inform,
Counter, Evacuate
Superintendent Kelli Hodge told the Associated Press that the school has been
working on its school safety plan with
This is where the canned goods would
come in, as Hodge explained: “If somebody is going to force their way through,
then as the last resort you would start
throwing any objects you could get your
hands on.”
Questions from parents
While there are conflicting reports on
approval and criticism from parents,
many questions have been raised and
answered, such as:
1. Where will the cans be stored? In
classrooms, according to Hodge. She
said students would NOT be carrying
the cans around the school.
2. Will throwing cans at an intruder
make the student a target? “If it comes
to the situation where [students] are
forced to [throw cans], then they are a
target because they’ve not been able to
evacuate,” Hodge said.
3. What will happen to the food after the
school year ends? Both Holley and
Hodge said unused cans will be donated to a local food pantry at the end
of the school year.
But other uncertainties linger …
While the above questions have been
addressed, others haven’t been answered.
For example:
1. If cans are stored in a central location
(even within the classroom setting), will
students be able to access them in time
to protect themselves during an intruder’s attack?
2. If the cans are stored in a handy location for easy access in the event of
an emergency, how will school officials
be able to make sure the stockpile isn’t
raided during a student fight, which
could lead to serious injuries?
What’s your take?
This is a controversial subject among
school safety professionals. Some say
these types of training methods are justified due to potential life-threatening situations.
But
other
school safety
pros question
approaches
that encourage students
— and staff
— to confront
an armed attacker.
We want to
know what
you think:
* Is this canned food drive a good idea
to empower students in the event of an
attack?
* Or do you think having this stash is
likely to lead to other problems?
Email your comments to:
[email protected]
‘Don’t dress like Beyoncé':
The sexts of Steve Kroft
By Leonard Greene and Laura ItalianoJanuary 31, 2015 |
6:57am, NYPost.com
The Manhattan mistress of married “60 Minutes’’ newsman
Steve Kroft sent him sexy lingerie photos during their affair,
but he insisted she dress low-key — like “Laura Bush” — with
him in public to keep things hush-hush, according to newly
revealed texts.
“He was unwilling to be seen publicly with [Goines] because
she’s black — because they’d be more noticeable,’’ the
source said.
The racy texts also show Kroft boasting about his buddybuddy rapport with President Obama, whom he referred to
as “Barry.”
When news of Kroft’s affair with Goines, 41, broke four weeks
ago, he readily admitted it to The Post — but insisted that he
never had any pillow talk with Goines about Obama, whom
the newsman has interviewed repeatedly.
The source, however, said Kroft was proud to boast to
Goines about his closeness to the leader of the free world —
and let slip that Obama “hates” his attorney general, Eric
Holder.
“[Kroft] definitely said Obama feels comfortable with him, because he was the first person to take him seriously when he
was running for president,” the insider said.
“They have a rapport. They used to smoke together.”
Kroft’s side dismissed the latest dish.
A source close to Kroft’s lover told The Post that the TV hotshot was “really paranoid about right-wing zealots” finding
out about their affair and using the tawdry details to try to destroy his career and CBS.
The sexts between Kroft and Lisan Goines — obtained exclusively by The Post — include a nude selfie of the lusty
lawyer that she sent to her much-older lover. Other photos
show her wearing a red thong and busting out of a black bra.
But “dress in Washington is Either professional or Laura
Bush,” Kroft messaged his illicit squeeze in advance of their
September 2011 play date at the Park Hyatt on 24th and M
streets in DC.
“Don’t dress like Beyoncé,” Kroft warned the Harvard-educated beauty, according to the source.
In addition to fearing the zealots, Kroft, 69, was “beyond terrified” that his wife of 23 years, fellow journalist Jennet Conant, would find out about the affair, the source added
“These accounts, like the ones previously, are filled with distortions, exaggerations and outright falsehoods,” said a
source familiar with the details of the affair.
The newly revealed text messages show Kroft detailing his
various states of arousal — the literal ups and downs of a
near-septuagenarian with a curvaceous younger girlfriend.
Yes, there were downs.
“Too old and Sick to j- -k off,” reads one text to Goines from
last March, to which the real-estate and corporate lawyer responded with a sexy selfie and the encouragement, “Get well
soon…”
The selfie showed Goines smiling alluringly, her long hair beribboning her ample cleavage.
“This will help ;)” Kroft responded appreciatively.
Kroft was in better form during an earlier exchange that occurred on Sept. 4, 2011.
“Wanting to taste you again,” Goines began.
“Same here,” Kroft answered.
“Stem to stern And all the delicious spots Inbeteren [sic].”
Goines waited until the next morning to answer that one:
“Gonna explode if I can’t have you soon…”
“Very hard playing golf with A bulge in my pants,” Kroft
texted Goines of the resulting handicap.
“I’d like to see just how hard it is,” Goines parried.
The veteran TV journalist was no mere “60-minutes man” in
the boudoir, according to his texts. He boasted in one of a
four-hour sex marathon with Goines.
“I’m in my room at the same Washington hotel where I remember having you for a four hour full course Meal plus
desert,” he messaged her.
“Mmmm…u whet my appetite,” Goines answered, prompting the response, “I hope that’s not all I’m wetting.”
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The newsman was an eager audience for Goines’ selfies.
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“Jesus” was his gobsmacked response to a nude shot she
sent in November 2013.
Board of Education
“Maybe I should have said ‘Sweet Jesus,’ ” he amended.
Kroft’s 69th birthday fell on Aug. 22 and prompted a volley
of numerical sex puns.
“Many happy returns,” Goines began. “Wanna act ur
age?:)”
Kroft apparently didn’t get the joke at first.
“You mean old and grumpy?” he answered.
“No,” explained Goines. “Just some dirty b-day humor. Ur
aged to perfection…or at least the perfect number :)”
Goines and a spokeswoman for Kroft and CBS declined to
comment.
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