It was only a drill. Five Vermont state troopers were moving through Burlington Town Center on Thursday evening, when suddenly, they came under fire. Four journalists had infiltrated the deserted mall and wouldn’t stop shooting at them. 

Click. Click. Click. 

Undettered by the paparazzi’s cameras, the troopers went on with their demonstration, proceeding from the mall’s Bank Street entrance in a diamond formation, making their way down to the J. Crew store with guns drawn, turning around and exiting the way they came.  

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Charles Eichacker was a staff writer for Seven Days.