NJ School Prepares for Terrorist Attack
Burlington Township held its first live drill testing the police and school response plans to a terrorist attack and hostage crisis.
“We need to practice under conditions as real as possible in order to evaluate our procedures and plans so that they're as effective as possible.”
The “real as possible” drill script.
A very likely scenario indeed.The mock terror attack involved two irate men armed with handguns who invaded the high school through the front door. They pretended to shoot several students in the hallway and then barricaded themselves in the media center with 10 student hostages.
Two Burlington Township police detectives portrayed the gunmen. Investigators described them as members of a right-wing fundamentalist group called the “New Crusaders” who don't believe in separation of church and state. The mock gunmen went to the school seeking justice because the daughter of one had been expelled for praying before class.
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