Towson University Police Union Says They Don’t Feel Supported By The University Following Campus Shooting

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TOWSON, Md. (WJZ) — The Towson University Police Union is sounding disconnected connected the university’s effect to Saturday’s shooting during an unsanctioned lawsuit connected field that resulted successful the suspension of a seasoned officer.

“That serviceman is being scapegoated,” said Rick Saylor, spokesperson for fop lodge 82, Towson University’s constabulary union.

“We don’t deliberation that was fair. We don’t deliberation it was just for the serviceman to person been suspended.”

Hundreds of radical gathered astatine state quadrate overnight Saturday that near 3 radical injured, including a pupil and 19-year-old Samuel Nnam — who constabulary judge fired the gun.

The assemblage said the suspension of the unnamed serviceman is pending an probe into whether they followed established procedures during the incident.

“Our knowing is that the serviceman was doing what the serviceman was asked to do, which was show this crowd,” said Saylor.

In response, Towson University’s constabulary main said successful a fiery statement: “any ‘stand down’ bid being fixed is reckless, misleading and categorically false. It misrepresents the facts of the case, it hinders the probe underway and it undermines the authorization of active-duty officers who proceed to support and service the TU community.”

But Saylor said that’s not the union’s message.

“I deliberation it’s parcing words to reason that what happened was thing different than a stand-down order,” said Saylor. “Stand down- they were told to enactment determination and monitor.”

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The university’s constabulary national is present calling connected an extracurricular bureau to measurement successful and instrumentality implicit the interior affairs probe followed by an wide probe of the incident.