County S.W.A.T. team conducts training in Colfax and Pullman

It went up Mill Street and turned into the dark lane behind the Colfax Post Office.

Gray-black in color, the all-armored steel “Peacekeeper” vehicle carried 13 men standing on an iron bar on either side carrying AR-15 rifles.

They stopped behind Columbia Bank. The camouflaged group jumped off the rails in silence and marched in a line, guns pointed from their shoulders.

Inside the bank, they didn’t know what they would face other than a hostage situation. Their arrival was the first of three exercises conducted at the bank for the Whitman County Regional S.W.A.T. (Special Weapons and Tactics)...