Health & Fitness
UNPREPARED — 1976 ‘Good Friday Shooting’ detective labels Baltimore police ‘not prepared’
CITY COPS COULDN’T CONTAIN IT, HE SAYS
Now 84, Tabeling decries lack of proper training
by Baltimore Police Department; officers have
inadequate understanding of U.S. Constitution
‘UNGER DECISION’ COULD FREE HUNDREDS
By Alan Z. Forman
The Baltimore City Police lieutenant in command at the scene of the “Good Friday Shooting” of 1976, in which six patrol officers and a detective were shot by a teenage sniper from his third-floor window in West Baltimore, says that if a similar situation were to occur today, “city police are not prepared for it.
“We couldn’t contain the carnage any better today than we did 37 years ago,” he declared. . . . . . . . .
Find out what's happening in North Baltimorewith free, real-time updates from Patch.
READ THE STORY AT VOICE OF BALTIMORE — http://voiceofbaltimore.org/archives/10705
AND CHECK OUT DAVE MARIL'S LATEST “INSIDE PITCH” COLUMN — http://voiceofbaltimore.org/archives/10676