Midshipman and Cop kerfuffle during lockdown
Annapolis, the site of the United States Naval Academy, one of the country’s senior military colleges, was placed under a lockdown yesterday. It seems a former student was making threats electronically, which appeared to be coming from within the building. *cue spooky 70’s horror movie music*
During this lockdown, the police prowled the building making sure everyone was safe and to catch the bad guy. Likewise, cadets (called midshipmen) were on guard. As future war leaders, they too are prepared to fight, “I have not yet begun to fight!” and “Don’t give up the ship!” are the sorts of slogans using to inspire these future officers.
As it turns out, the threat wasn’t coming from inside the house, but rather from a cop and a midshipman confusing each other for the danger. One kid turns his ceremonial rifle into a club, and the cop shoots him. Whoopsie. Luckily it sounds like both will be making a recovery. This will make for a good lesson for all on the importance of identification of the target amidst the fog of war.
A law enforcement officer shot a student at the U.S. Naval Academy on Thursday during a lockdown that was prompted by online threats from someone who had been kicked out of the institution, a source said.
The shooting on the Annapolis, Maryland, campus occurred after the midshipmen, which is what all students at the academy are called, mistook a responding law enforcement officer for a threat and struck the officer with a parade rifle used for training, the source said.
The student the law enforcement officer shot was hospitalized and is expected to be OK, the source said.
Helicopter video from NBC affiliate WBAL of Baltimore showed someone being wheeled out on a stretcher to a waiting state police helicopter.
The lockdown was prompted by anonymous threats made on social media by a student who had been kicked out of the academy, the source said.
That student was not on campus but used an IP address to make it look as though they were, according to the source. The student believed to have made the threats was at home at the time, the source said.
Naval Support Activity Annapolis security and local police responded to the academy grounds at 5:07 p.m., a Navy official said.
The person who was injured and flown by helicopter from the campus was in stable condition Thursday night, the Navy official said.
The threats and the lockdown at the Naval Academy occurred a day after the fatal shooting of prominent conservative activist figure Charlie Kirk at a Utah university and on a day when unfounded threats targeted at least five historically Black colleges, prompting lockdowns at those campuses.
Category: Breaking News, Navy, Police
One liberal asshole spoils the whole bunch. Times that by a thousand, and we have what we have now.
Hope the punk who was kicked out will get a really heavy book covered in spikes thrown at him. Trying to keep up-to-date with info on this yesterday was a real pain.
Hopefully no charges will be filed against either one, as they both thought they were dealing with a valid threat.
BUT….as is typical for all military, I wonder what the midshipman’s new nickname will be? Ya just KNOW he’s gonna get one.
Maybe…..”Batboy”?
Buttstroke
…heh heh, he said butt…
He fit right in
Butt he had a stroke of good luck when he butt stroked the LEO with his drill/parade rifle. Lucky that it wasn’t an M-1 Garand and he accidently put his thumb on the E clip follower.
I’m on the fence and need more info on what actually happened before assuming neither deserves to be charged.
At first blush, it sounds like the LEO simply responded to being attacked and his actions entirely justified.
I’m still curious as to why the midshipman assumed this specific cop was the threat. He assaulted an innocent man and, while there were certainly aggravating circumstances, that doesn’t smell like the actions of an ideal future leader of men.
I would assume that the cadet in question needs remedial training not only in threat identification but in what the hell lockdown means.
I wonder if the LEO was in plain clothes when the incident happened. Well, we should be getting the whole story pretty soon. Most likely I will see it on my online Navy, Army and Marine Corps Times.
Clubber Lange.
Glad both will be ok.
Hope they catch the perp. Perhaps keelhaul him?
…..dragged five miles behind a p/up truck down a gravel road.
That might be horrible optics.
Only if someone sees it.
That’s worse than watching Buck Jones whistling for his horse Silver to come to the shack window before the shack burned to the ground and he lassoed the saddle and jumped out of the window under rifle fire and was dragged quite a distance and his 2 other Rough Rider US Marshalls found him in the bush he was badly scraped up but recouped in a day and a half. That was from the Monagram film studios Rough Riders series.
Got to give the Mid props. He stepped up to defend himself and his shipmates. Too bad he got lost in the “fog of war”.
Honor violation indeed. Hope the dbag fries.
He was already kicked out.
Hack always wondered about those whose service was terminated by the employer, the now unemployed goes from gruntled to disgruntled and returns to worksite packing heat, and after a few of his former coworkers are injured and killed, does someone in HR look at his file and say “You know what, he shouldn’t have been fired.”
What is this “threats to black colleges” they are talking about?
Sounds like bs.