Shooting At MIA.
In case you have not heard, there WAS a shooting at the airport I work at. Do a Google News search and you will get tons of stories.
All I know if whatever the news reports say. I was in concourse H when the shooting took place at concourse D gate 42. CC H is a fair distance from CC D. I did not even know something happened. I got the news from another airport employee when I was in the airport hotel lobby.
Anyway, the event did not really effect my overtime day. One of the flights I had to meet was an hour late, but that happens even when there are no shootings.
The event was tragic, a man was killed. According to reports, the man had mental problems and his wife was saying he had not taken his medication. Not taking your medication is not a reason for law enforcement to shoot you - but then again the guy made a threat in an airport. If there was a bomb in his bag, and he had detonated it, a lot of people could been hurt or killed. The FAMs had no way to know there was no bomb.
Therefore, I do not think that excessive force was used. FAMs are highly trained professionals. They have been flying since at least 2002 - and have never made the news for anything like this.
posted by The Lazy Iguana @ 22:16
6 Comments:
It is tragic when something like this happens but I certainly can't blame the Marshalls for doing exactly what they are trained to do.
I'm glad you weren't anywhere near it when it happened.
Sad. But I don't blame the marshalls either. Sh*t happens.
I agree with you, and am very glad you're OK.
I agree, Iguana. I am glad you were not hurt.
I have a post on this very subject on my blog today as well. It seems to me that the marshalls did not need to use deadly force on this guy.
I can't blame the Marshalls for doing what they were trained to do. I think it's tragic that it happened.
I had no idea this happened at the airport where you work (or that you work at an airport for that matter, I'm the newbie here!). Nonetheless glad you were out of harms way.
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