On Apr 20, 2007, at 12:35 PM, Sal Sunshine wrote:
> It is amazing that the law enforcement in Virginia handled this
with such stupidity. I have a feeling that after the funeral is over
many parents will be questioning why after two students had been
murdered on campus the first person they would have thought of is
Cho. After all he is the only student who had records with the police
station for unusual behavior. They called it an isolated incident and
let the classes continue as normal. They should have had an immediate
lookout for Cho and told all of the students classes are canceled and
to go home. A very poor handling by law enforcement. I predict law
suits will follow after the funeral is over and that the hired body
of private investigators will cover the Virginia police departments
ass. Lsoma.
Lou,
As I understand it, the first shooting was one person, not two.
So calling it an 'isolated incident' at that point was not that far
off the mark.
Actually I've now realized what I wrote above was mistaken--it was 2
people in the first shooting, as you said, Lou, at least one of them
supposedly at random. That changes things a bit. Now I believe it was
seriously remiss of the university not to put the campus on lockdown at
that point, as well as send out emails and put out warnings on the
radio, until they could apprehend the guy. Lives undoubtedly would
have been saved.
And out of 2500 students it's a little hard to believe he was the only
one who had a police record. And if they had had an 'immediate
lookout' for Cho and it turned out it was someone else? He apparently
hadn't been acting that strange for some time previous to that.
