Some officers face emotional toll after Annunciation shooting

MINNEAPOLIS — For the first time, staff members dedicated to the health and wellbeing of officers were deployed to the scene as Minneapolis police responded to the Annunciation Catholic School shooting on Aug. 27.

That morning, two children were killed and 21 people, mostly children, were injured in a hail of gunfire.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said that for many officers, this was not a single traumatic incident but the latest in a series of distressing experiences…

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