{"id":173826,"date":"2025-09-12T17:07:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T21:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=173826"},"modified":"2025-09-12T17:07:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T21:07:38","slug":"midshipman-and-cop-kerfuffle-during-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=173826","title":{"rendered":"Midshipman and Cop kerfuffle during lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Annapolis, the site of the United States Naval Academy, one of the country’s senior military colleges, was placed under a lockdown yesterday. It seems a former student was making threats electronically, which appeared to be coming from within the building.\u00a0*cue spooky 70’s horror movie music*\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

During this lockdown, the police prowled the building making sure everyone was safe and to catch the bad guy. Likewise, cadets (called midshipmen) were on guard. As future war leaders, they too are prepared to fight, “I have not yet begun to fight!\u201d and \u201cDon’t give up the ship!\u201d are the sorts of slogans using to inspire these future officers.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, the threat wasn’t coming from inside the house, but rather from a cop and a midshipman confusing each other for the danger. One kid turns his ceremonial rifle into a club, and the cop shoots him. Whoopsie. Luckily it sounds like both will be making a recovery. This will make for a good lesson for all on the importance of identification of the target amidst the fog of war.<\/p>\n

NBC News has the story<\/a>;<\/p>\n

A law enforcement officer shot a student at the U.S. Naval Academy on Thursday during a lockdown that was prompted by online threats from someone who had been kicked out of the institution, a source said.<\/p>\n

The shooting on the Annapolis, Maryland, campus occurred after the midshipmen, which is what all students at the academy are called, mistook a responding law enforcement officer for a threat and struck the officer with a parade rifle used for training, the source said.<\/p>\n

The student the law enforcement officer shot was hospitalized and is expected to be OK, the source said.<\/p>\n

Helicopter video from NBC affiliate WBAL of Baltimore showed someone being wheeled out on a stretcher to a waiting state police helicopter.<\/p>\n

The lockdown was prompted by anonymous threats made on social media by a student who had been kicked out of the academy, the source said.<\/p>\n

That student was not on campus but used an IP address to make it look as though they were, according to the source. The student believed to have made the threats was at home at the time, the source said.<\/p>\n

Naval Support Activity Annapolis security and local police responded to the academy grounds at 5:07 p.m., a Navy official said.<\/p>\n

The person who was injured and flown by helicopter from the campus was in stable condition Thursday night, the Navy official said.<\/p>\n

The threats and the lockdown at the Naval Academy occurred a day after the fatal shooting of prominent conservative activist figure Charlie Kirk at a Utah university and on a day when unfounded threats targeted at least five historically Black colleges, prompting lockdowns at those campuses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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