Posted on Wednesday, February, 24th, 2016 in Newsroom.
Eric Mann, director of the Labor/Community Strategy Center, is also calling for a formal apology from the district as well as a “pledge” to cease all transactions with the Defense Department, who first unloaded the baffling stash of powerful weaponry on police. “Military-grade weapons have no place on our public school campuses,” Deborah Fowler, a social justice advocate, told the Times in 2014 when the department first promised to forfeit only a predetermined selection of its weapons stash. “We’re simply calling for a return to common sense when it comes to the way our schools are kept safe.”