Drudge has a picture of maybe a dozen kids apparently walking in the
school parking lot where this latest shooting took place. There's a county
deputy watching them. Each of the kids has both hands on the shoulders
of the one in front. Why the hands on the shoulders?

Dean Hoffman wrote:

Drudge has a picture of maybe a dozen kids apparently walking in the
school parking lot where this latest shooting took place. There's a
county deputy watching them. Each of the kids has both hands on the
shoulders of the one in front. Why the hands on the shoulders?

It is visually easier to monitor a contiguous chain for breaks then it
is to monitor numerous individual links simultaneously. At least that
is the theory.



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On Thu, 15 Feb 2018 13:13:35 +0000 (UTC), "Dove Tail"
wrote:

Dean Hoffman wrote:

Drudge has a picture of maybe a dozen kids apparently walking in the
school parking lot where this latest shooting took place. There's a
county deputy watching them. Each of the kids has both hands on the
shoulders of the one in front. Why the hands on the shoulders?

It is visually easier to monitor a contiguous chain for breaks then it
is to monitor numerous individual links simultaneously. At least that
is the theory.

Yes, that is the way they move prisoners but these are students I
presume, not people in custody.

wrote:

On Thu, 15 Feb 2018 13:13:35 +0000 (UTC), "Dove Tail"
wrote:

Dean Hoffman wrote:

Drudge has a picture of maybe a dozen kids apparently walking in
the school parking lot where this latest shooting took place.
There's a county deputy watching them. Each of the kids has both
hands on the shoulders of the one in front. Why the hands on the
shoulders?

It is visually easier to monitor a contiguous chain for breaks then
it is to monitor numerous individual links simultaneously. At
least that is the theory.

Yes, that is the way they move prisoners but these are students I
presume, not people in custody.


And at that stage, how are the police supposed to know the good guys
from the bad guys?



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In "Dove Tail" writes:

Dean Hoffman wrote:

Drudge has a picture of maybe a dozen kids apparently walking in the
school parking lot where this latest shooting took place. There's a
county deputy watching them. Each of the kids has both hands on the
shoulders of the one in front. Why the hands on the shoulders?

It is visually easier to monitor a contiguous chain for breaks then it
is to monitor numerous individual links simultaneously. At least that
is the theory.

There's the related issue that until proven "innocent", every
one of those kids has to be considered a suspect in the shooting.

Same deal when there's a bank hostage scene.



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On Thu, 15 Feb 2018 05:18:37 -0600, Dean Hoffman
wrote:

Drudge has a picture of maybe a dozen kids apparently walking in the
school parking lot where this latest shooting took place. There's a county
deputy watching them. Each of the kids has both hands on the shoulders
of the one in front. Why the hands on the shoulders?

Likely a local department and/or school protocol. One has to assume
the shooter may be trying to escape as students are escorted out of
the building. Easier to observe them in single file verses allowing a
crowd to disperse in all directions, leaving potential for a shooter
to get away. It makes the student keep their hands of their pockets in
case a gun is being carried.

In the Atlanta prison riots, federal employees were handcuffed until
fully identified. Convicts have been known to take staff uniforms and
put hostages in convict clothes. Handcuffing hostages became a new
policy.