American extremists pose a “persistent and lethal threat” to the LGBTQ, migrant and Jewish communities. That troubling advisory came last week from the Department of Homeland Security.
acts and threats at an all-time high, NBC10 Boston checked in with the greater Boston Jewish community’s top security expert. Our cameras were invited in to see an active shooter training session with dozens of preschool teachers.
"Why don't you all sort of take seats the way that you normally would or the classrooms normally would? We're going to do this slowly,"If I were to pull out a firearm, what would you do? Let's go. One, two, three. What could we do? What would we do right now? I've got something. I'd throw things. And then what? “ number of you ran right by me. So somebody could have at least grabbed my hands or grabbed the firearm or a couple of you could have.
“We do fire drills once a month, not because we think there's going to be a fire, but because we want to be ready," added Education Director Ester Grunblatt. She told usour teachers came out of here feeling really good about it; not anxious, but rather feeling like this training would really help them.”
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