Sometimes, truth is stranger than fiction, and the events that took place at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis had strong elements of both. What we have here is a strange truth wrapped in an even stranger layer of fiction and hearsay.

I’ll do my best today to dig past the fluff and get to the facts.

The Short Version

A bogus online threat triggered a lockdown at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis on Sept. 11. In the fog of that response, a midshipman mistook a police officer for a real threat, and the AP reports he hit an officer in the head with it; the officer fired and wounded the student. Both the officer and the midshipman were treated and released. Investigators later tied the original threat to a former midshipman’s computer located out of state. NCIS is leading the probe into t

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