Standoff in Sioux Falls, SD

Earlier today a three hour standoff occurred in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.  Carl Jerome Stanley II had barricaded himself in an apartment building and police believed he had access to weapons. Because of that fact police called a S.W.A.T. team in to handle the situation.  Stanley is pictured below.

 "What they'll do in a situation like this is they've obviously got a perimeter set up to keep people out away from it to try to make sure that every body's going to be safe," said Officer Sam Clemens.

Stanley had two warrants out for his arrest one a second degree escape charge which could get him five years in prison and child support.

Stanley gave himself up 3 hours later and no one was harmed.

This was a very different story then what happen in vermillion South Dakota last year on Christmas.

On South Crawford Road a 12 hour standoff occurred. Greg Girard held his two children hostage. while in a standoff with police.
Julie Girard escaped from the house.  She said she had been assaulted by her husband and that he destroyed  her cell phone so she couldn't call out and also threaten to kill her.
Around 4:30 a.m. Mr. Girard released the children to an off-duty officer.
After 10:20 a.m.  Mr. Girard had stopped talking to the police and they heard a gunshot.
Police believed that Mr. Girard had taken his own life.

Links two these two stories are as follows
Picture provided by: KDLT Website
http://www.kdlt.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30782&Itemid=57
http://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/neighbors-in-disbelief-over-christmas-day-standoff-in-vermillion-s/article_4b636705-9a73-5a17-9ba4-bbab94b7c6a9.html

Dakota Day's

Dakota Day’s is a celebration that is supposed to be about bring a school together and showing your pride. The Tradition would bring back Alumni and current students together to celebrate together. This tradition started on November 20, 1914 with the native townsmen and faulty members of the university. http://www.usd.edu/campus-life/dakota-days/dakota-days-history.cfm. The person hat encouraged the event the most was Robert l. Slagle. It was called South Dakota Day but shorten to Dakota Day and now called D-days for short. I personally have noticed since when I started college back in 2000 that Dakota Days has been more about drinking then school spirit and pride. And it seems more like that now than it did back in 2000 when I first started. Asking some people at D-Day’s what D-days means to them and most said Pride, going to the game. #Mcom525, #ddays2013 @ToddStephens. But the ones that didn’t want to be quoted or to rude to be quoted said to drunk or ruder comments.

               I also asked what are you doing for d-days and the most common response was to get drunk and go to the game. So it seems that it is more about the drinking now then it is about the school spirit and the school pride. Drinking is more important than if we when the game. The Vermillion police Department have set up a Twitter feed to help people around Vermillion know what is going on. @VermillionPD.

“#Ddays2013 winding down. Unofficially, no serious injuries, no felony arrest and less arrest overall than last year.” The VPD Twitter feed posted.

So at least we have less arrest or less people being caught doing something that they should of right?