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cgod  ·  2760 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Black student using a glue gun mistaken for active shooter; 4 hour lockdown ensues

Maybe the person who reported this is racist, maybe they didn't get a good look and thought it was better to safe than sorry.

Everything afterword is fine.

Security isn't about to say, "hold on a second, do you think that this might have been a glue gun?" or "hold on a second, they said that the armed man was black, do you think we should slow this thing down for a second and examine our hearts for institutional racism before we take a look for this guy?"

Maybe the school is straight racist, maybe it isn't but neither case seems supported by the facts at hand.