My first suspicion is that there was under-aged drinking, perhaps drug use, going on at the party. The last thing they wanted was a bunch of cops to show up responding to a gunshot 911 call.
That was my thought as well.
What a mess that would have been for cops to show up to investigate a shooting.
Illegal drugs, guns, drinking.
Small wonder they loaded him in the car.
THEY should be the ones being sued, aside from the shooter.
I don’t see that the cops were recorded as doing anything wrong.
They stopped a carful of young kids speeding for they don’t know what reason. They start pulling them out and no doubt smell the booze, probably the grass, the kids are probably incoherent, and the cops probably don’t have good reason to take them seriously until they come across the injured kid.
All the cop haters have never walked in a cops shoes and don’t know what they deal with on a daily or nightly basis.
Are there bad cops? Of course, and I am not at all defending the police state mentality cops. However, considering how much of a judgment call in making decisions their job takes, they need to be cut some slack.
Everyone is an expert after the fact. It’s easy to sit back and armchair critique what should have been done, knowing facts that were not known at the time of the incident.
Yeah, no reason to stop a party, just because friends have been shot and need medical attention. There's still beer left!