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Tenn. Official Suspended After Mock Terror Drill Disrupts County Meeting
The Associated Press
Published: Aug 4, 2004

ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. (AP) - An official who staged a security drill that disrupted a county commission meeting with guns and mock hostage-takers has been suspended.
Ernest Jackson, Carter County's emergency management director, will be off the job until the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation finishes its probe of Monday's drill, which upset officials, law enforcement and members of the public, Carter County Mayor Dale Fair said.

Jackson was suspended with pay Tuesday, Fair said.

The meeting was about to take up two tax proposals when three men and a woman burst in with guns drawn and claimed to be taking hostages. One man threatened to explode a bomb with a device he was holding, and another fired a shot, which turned out to be a blank.

As the meeting dissolved in confusion, Jackson announced it was only a drill.

Some officials were told about the drill shortly before the meeting but didn't know the details. The city police didn't know a drill was planned and responded to what they thought was a hostage situation.

Renee Bowers, who will take over while Jackson is suspended, said her agency had been trying to make disaster drills more realistic.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBBAF12IXD.html

LOL

Dumbass!

Good thing for the DRILLERS that a competent DRILLEE wasn't packing a shooting iron. Did they run that drill by Risk Assessment before hand?

or even a pointy stick or piece of steel and the resolve to use it. VERY lucky that no one got hurt/killed

Yep, if they put people in fear of losing their lives, someone may gamble that action could result in a slightly better outcome than their own death. It's a roll of the dice. Even the chairs they sat in could smash one head and possibly let a "good guy' recover a firearm. If they use blanks for the drill you just have to shoot closer with the recovered firearm. I'd be one pissed sumbitch even If I thought it was a drill while it was happening. It would become my training drill.