Keanon Lowe was hailed as a hero for quickly wrestling a gun away from a student who entered a classroom at Portland, Oregon’s Parkrose High School in May. As he explained it to reporters shortly afterward:“The door opens. I’m within arm’s length of the door, about 3 feet away from the door, and there’s a kid with a gun ― a shotgun,” Lowe said. I saw the look in his face, look in his eyes, looked at the gun, realized it was a real gun and then my instincts just took over. Now, school surveillance footage obtained by local news station KOIN 6 has revealed the radical empathy that overtook Lowe in the moments afterward, when he spoke to the gunman and wrapped him in a hug.

Source: Huffington Post October 19, 2019 19:11 UTC