I live in Sandy Hook. There are usually only three to four cars on patrol in Newtown, which is about 60 square miles. One seems to have been there in about a minute and a half.
7 minutes is about the time it would have taken the State Troopers to get there lights and sirens.
Any idea if all Newtown cops actually have eeeeevil “assault rifles” in their patrol cars?
Yes. And "almost a quarter mile" is perhaps somewhere between 300 and 400 yards, not an unreasonable distance for a reconnoiter, if you know nothing about what's going on inside.
I know virtually nothing about the entire situation. I'd like to think I would have charged in as soon as I arrived.
But I got no idea as to this guy's thinking or the info he and the other LEOs were getting.