It’s not clear. So it’s the person who is in the green vest and fired a trained police officer or not? “Safety team” is a meaningless term that could mean guy with gun license up to cop.

I’ve driven through upstate NY just once going from Boston to Buffalo and took a detour to Ithaca. Extremely beautiful drive during that detour I will say.

“the same number of violent deaths as on any random weekend in the United States.”

Use critical thinking here. Even if this is the number, it is equating the violent deaths at a single location to the total number of violent deaths in the entire United States over a weekend. This one little tidbit lets you know of the angle of the article and the misinformation it tries to hide in plain sight.