School district in Southern California arms its officers with semiautomatic rifles
(MCT) — LOS ANGELES — Police officers in the Fontana Unified School District in San Bernardino County were armed recently with semiautomatic rifles, drawing sharp criticism and sparking an effort to ban such weapons on school campuses.
The Colt rifles, which cost about $1,000 each, are kept in safes when officers are on campus and will be used only in “extreme emergency cases” like the massacre in Newtown, Conn., Superintendent Cali Olsen-Binks said.
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