Judge tentatively OKs live ammunition for Parkland school shooting reenactment in civil case

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/20/us/parkland-shooting-reenactment-civil-case/index.html

Judge tentatively OKs live ammunition for Parkland school shooting reenactment in civil case

A Florida judge tentatively agreed Thursday that live ammunition could be used in a reenactment of 2018's mass shooting inside Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as part of a civil lawsuit.

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Decoy321@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y (2 replies)

This is one of those articles that seems absurd and disagreeable from the title, but it's actually sensible when you read why. It's worth a full read.

21Cabbage@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

It is, but damn what a dark situation.

timespace@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

TL;DR the purpose of the reenactment is to show that the resource officer would have been able to tell the direction from which the shots were being fired and there’s a difference in sound quality between blanks and live rounds.