Sheriff: Your brain will ‘play tricks on you’ during mass shooting — so get training now

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Sheriff: In workplace shooting, your brain will ‘play tricks on you’ — so get training now

Such training is vitally important because it conditions you to take immediate action to protect yourself as soon as you see or hear signs of danger. The training overrides your conscious mind, which will tend to “turn to mush” in such a terrifying situation, Salazar said.

Some 800 people took part in Friday’s courthouse training, he said. The sheriff’s office has trained an additional 1,500 county employees in recent weeks, he added. People typically assume their workplace is safe, and that slows their response when a deadly threat presents itself, the sheriff said. “We train people to recognize that your mind is going to play tricks on you, quite literally, and how to overcome that to buy yourself those precious few seconds … to react to the situation,” Salazar said.

Gus Trevion of the Bexar County Sheriff's office during an active shooter training held at City Church on Aug. 13, 2018.During the courthouse training, “we did learn that there is some tightening up we need to do” in security procedures at the building, the sheriff said. He refused to provide details.

 

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