Employee sues Catholic Charities of Omaha over active-shooter drill

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://omaha.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/employee-sues-catholic-charities-of-omaha-over-active-shooter-drill/article_9ece0c92-b6ee-11ed-9be3-3719a5bda516.html

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A Catholic Charities employee has sued the Omaha nonprofit, alleging leaders intentionally caused her to fear for her life by staging an active shooter drill without telling her and others it was fake.

Employees panicked on May 19 when they heard gunshots and saw a masked man brandishing a semiautomatic handgun at the organization’s office at 9223 Bedford Ave. At least one person lay on the ground smeared with fake blood as others ran for safety.

Executives were aware the scenario was only training but continued to play along, an Omaha police officer has said, while subordinates had no knowledge that the terrifying shooting was not real. Local authorities also were not told about the drill.

The lawsuit alleges that Denise Bartels, the executive director of Catholic Charities of Omaha, first said nothing to assuage employee Sandra Lopez’s fears and then directly told her: “It is a shooting.”

[Laffy Kat]

1. This could have ended tragically.

If someone tried to take on the "shooter" with another firearm. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

[Iggo]

4. Or with a knife...or a club...or a screwdriver...or a stapler...

You do what you’re gonna do when you think you’re gonna die.

[Sogo]

2. "Local authorities also were not told about the drill."

Causing, no doubt, an avalance of 911 calls, reporting the false emergency.... That alone should be enough to fry the executives' arses.

[Iggo]

3. Yep, that should do it.

Coppers hate that shit.