As fear of indiscriminate violence escalates nationwide, city officials said they wanted to help educate those who could be vulnerable.
for an active-shooter training session held at a local pub. In the D.C. region, everyone from students to pastors to bar owners have learned how to barricade doors and scan rooms for exits.“Are you guys studying what happened down in Uvalde?” asked Gabriel Tolliver, a 55-year-old film and TV industry executive, at the training Thursday.
60 concertgoers. The rampage at a movie theater in Aurora, Co. that killed 12. The hope, public safety officials told the audience, is that D.C. residents and venue operators could learn from the tragedies of the past to prepare for what could come.“Do you hear the stress in their voices? And they are trained professionals,” DeSantis said, as he played a video of authorities in Aurora, Colo., responding to reports of an active shooting at the theater.
rolled back and officials say the nightlife corridors have become more crowded than they were before the pandemic. In June, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser announced athat deploys teams of police officers, transportation officials and other agency employees on the H Street, Connecticut Avenue and U Street corridors to disrupt “patterns of violence” on weekend nights.
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