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Shooting at Ladd raises questions about security procedures | Mobile County Alabama News

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MOBILE, Ala. (WALA)- Last Friday’s shooting during the Vigor vs Williamson game once again raising questions about security procedures for high school games. You may remember security came under scrutiny in 2019 after a shooting during the Williamson vs Leflore game.

That’s when the school system bought metal detectors to be set up at the entrances to all Mobile County Public School football games. They also updated their security protocol. But something went wrong last Friday.

The Mobile County District Attorney’s Office says that both suspects in custody, and at least one other suspect they are still looking for left the game and returned some time after the metal detectors were removed.

The Mobile County Public School System says the metal detectors are normally taken down midway through the third quarter. At which time the gates are supposed to be secured and no one is allowed re-entry into the game.

The updated safety protocols that were announced after the 2019 shooting say “there will be a uniformed officer at both gates-the home and visitor gates- for the duration of the game until the game has ended and the stadium is cleared.”



Shooting at Ladd



The Ladd-Peebles Stadium board ofdirectors said last night that the Mobile County Public School System more or less dictates security measures. But the school system says Ladd-Peebles Stadium is responsible for providing the uniformed officers and for making sure the gates are secured. The contract between the Mobile County Public School System and Ladd says “security personnel as the stadium general manager decides in his sole discretion shall be paid by the board and reimbursed by the tenant.”

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Security measures questioned at Ladd-Peebles Stadium after shooting – NBC 15 WPMI

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Security measures questioned at Ladd-Peebles Stadium after shooting  NBC 15 WPMI

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Christchurch shooting video still being downloaded by far-right extremists

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The Australian Federal Police analysis of Australians downloading Christchurch terrorism propaganda in the last quarter of 2020 highlighted the appeal of the New Zealand terror attacks to budding extremists. Sources aware of the findings outlined them to The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.

Laws passed by the federal government after the Christchurch attack, carried out by Australian Brenton Tarrant, aimed to decrease the sharing of extremist material by making it an offence for online platforms and internet service providers to fail to remove or report such material.

In a recent submission to a federal parliamentary inquiry into extremism, the chief executive of the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre, Rachael Falk, said the laws were “pioneering and pivotal” and noted that the apparent failure to charge any company under them “may serve to demonstrate the act’s deterrent effect”.

ASIO director-general Mike Burgess.

ASIO director-general Mike Burgess.Credit:Nine

However, the federal police analysis of peer-to-peer extremist content downloaded by Australians suggests the deterrence may be limited and that extremist material is being distributed by companies outside the police’s jurisdictional reach.

An analyst with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Ariel Bogle, will release a report on Thursday examining extremist fundraising online. She said her investigations had uncovered members of the Australian far-right using internet platforms to solicit funds.

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Ms Bogle said this included the use of live-streaming platforms that included a payment function, micro-donation websites and internet wallet addresses for cryptocurrencies such as monero that are designed to avoid detection.

A Telegram channel associated with National Socialist Network leader Tom Sewell has recently encouraged followers to donate through largely untraceable online cryptocurrency platforms to support his legal case.

On a live Telegram chat on August 7, Jacob Hersant, the second in charge of the network, boasted about reading the Christchurch terrorist’s manifesto.

Ms Bogle said Telegram – along with platforms like Gab, VK and Element – was facilitating funding requests by extremists, and some online financial…

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Biden Warns a ‘Real Shooting War’ Could Come From Cyber Breach

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President Joe Biden told U.S. intelligence officials on Tuesday that he thinks a cyber breach could lead to a “shooting war” with a major global power.

“I think it’s more likely we’re going to end up—if we end up in a war, a real shooting war, with a major power—it’s going to be as a consequence of a cyber breach of great consequence,” Biden said during a visit to the Office of the Direct of National Intelligence, according to a recording of his visit.

Biden did not clarify how the U.S. measures a breach “of great consequence,” but his remarks come after a series of Russian ransomware attacks and other cyberattacks have hit U.S. government and private sector entities. The American public has become intimately familiar with how ransomware attacks, especially those against a pipeline operator and meat supplier in recent months, can cause disruptions in Americans’ day-to-day lives.

“We’ve seen how cyberthreats including ransomware attacks increasingly are able to cause damage and disruption in the real world,” Biden told the approximately 120 ODNI staff in attendance.

The U.S. has long taken actions to retaliate against cyberattacks that have pummeled U.S. entities in recent years. It has sanctioned individuals it says are linked with attacks, indicted some, and called out different foreign government entities, such as China’s counterintelligence agency, the Ministry of State Security, for its involvement in cyberattacks. Cyber Command has worked to disrupt Russian government-linked hackers that sought to intervene in U.S. elections in recent years by sending them direct messages and interrupting their internet access.

And while Biden has said in recent months that he wouldn’t rule out a retaliatory cyberattack in response to one targeting U.S. entities, his remarks raised the specter that the U.S., or another adversary, might escalate its responses to cyberattacks in the future.

Sen. Angus King (I-ME), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, echoed Biden’s concerns in comments to The Daily Beast.

“I think what it means is he understands that a cyberattack can be easily as destructive if not more so than a dropping of a missile or a bomb and…

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