(Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) Several Penn-Trafford School District alumni are up in arms over a perceived racist video of an active shooter drill at the high school.
The video, posted on Twitter, shows a man — who some believe was serving as the active shooter — wearing what appears to be a keffiyeh, or Arab headdress often worn by Palestinians.
The man wearing the headdress was not playing the active shooter in the Jan. 21 scenario, said John Sakoian, who runs Command Excellence, a business that conducted the active shooter drill.
“That individual was to go role play in a different scenario that we never ran, and he prematurely got into costume that was not approved and got inadvertently swept up in the first scenario,” Sakoian said, adding that the man was in a staging area waiting for the next part of the training exercise to start.
