Outrage after School uses teacher dressed as Arab to play the role of an active shooter

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Some have reacted with outrage after a teacher portraying an active shooter during a staff safety drill donned an Arab-style keffiyeh as part of a disguise.

The controversy was stirred when video clips emerged this week of the staff-only training drill that took place in western Pennsylvania's Penn-Trafford School District on January 21.

The training was for teachers only, but students in the A/V Club filmed part of it, and recent posted the video online to show off their work. The video has now been removed, and the school district refuses to let news outlets publish it, saying it was never intended for the public.

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John Sakoian, who runs Command Excellence, a business that conducted the active shooter drill, told the newspaper that the costume was not approved, and the teacher's involvement in the drill was 'accidental'.

In a statement, the school district said that the intent of the costumes used in the active shooter drill was 'to alter their appearance so that they were not readily recognizable by their co-workers.'

'There was no intent to represent any particular culture or religion,' the district said.

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