One of the prison assets Carl from Chicago went to audit turned out to be a sniper rifle:
These guns were kept in storage at the armory, and they brought out the sniper to show me the weapon himself because they didn’t let other people touch it after he had calibrated the scope. The sniper asked me a question:
Do you know why they pick snipers out of the staff in the prison?
No, I said.
Because in Attica there was an uprising and the prisoners took over the yard and then the prison brought in outside marksmen to ensure they could not escape. During the melee the marksmen shot many prisoners but it turns out that the prisoners had changed clothes with the civilian hostages, so some of the individuals gunned down were actual guards or workers. Thus the snipers were prison guards from that facility because they could pick out the inmates from the guards and workers.
I said that if he ever saw me in his scope wearing an orange outfit, please don’t shoot. It wasn’t a joke.
Have never heard of this before and it is a revelation. And too demonstrative of the type of malevolent and downright evil mentality of the convict. I can understand too why the outside snipers were brought it. Too many guards might have been hesitant to shoot as they in some cases had close relationships with some of the inmates?