Don’t Shoot
Participants in “shoot/don’t shoot” scenarios at a Punta Gorda, Fla., Police Night were to have the experience of deciding whether to use lethal force while facing a simulated threat. Lee Coel, a police officer playing a criminal, pointed a gun at Mary Knowlton, a 73-year-old playing his victim, and fired. The department thought the gun was loaded with blanks; the audience at first thought Knowlton was merely acting the part of a shooting victim. No and no. The bullets were real, and Knowlton is dead. (AC/Fort Myers News-Press) ...Every gun “is loaded.” Every brain, not so much.Original Publication Date: 21 August 2016
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 23.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 23.
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