Responders train for ‘unthinkable’
Official: Goal is to find out where they can improve
An eerie cloud of green smoke erupted near a car early Wednesday in the parking lot of Shadow Ridge High School, drawing the school’s police officer outside as firefighters arrived to extinguish it.
Then the crackle of gunshots rang out from inside the school.
The resulting frenzy of law enforcement activity was all part of a massive training exercise aimed at making sure the Metropolitan Police Department and other law enforcement agencies are prepared for what might have been called “unthinkable” in a simpler time.
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would one day be able to see his own children outside prison walls.
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On three separate days, a surveillance camera recorded images of Banco molesting and assaulting “very small” children in the back of a bus before dropping them off at home afterschool,authoritiessaidatthe time of his 2015 arrest.
Banco, who according to Transparent Nevada started working for the school district in 1995, was responsible for 20 students on his route throughout the Las Vegas Valley. As he dropped them off to their parents, he lectured them about appropriate behavior with adults.
“His actions were so depraved, so horrible,” Martinez said. “He knew exactly whathewasdoing.… These little girls will have to live with this the rest of their lives.”
A mother of one of the girls said her daughter still has nightmares.
“This is not something any family should have to go through or endure,” she told the judge. “But we are a strong family, and we will get through it.” A grandmother of one of the victims, a 3-year-old girl at the time of the attacks, called her a hero for telling the family about what Banco had done.
“Thismanhasdestroyedmygranddaughter,” she said, turning toward thejudge.“howdowegetpastthat? Idon’tknowwhatelsetodo,buthug her. That’s all I have.”