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How does it take 72 MINUTES to crash that shooter's door??? [Vanity]

Posted on 10/02/2017 4:02:52 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6

My assumptions:

(1) The shooter's location should have been immediately apparent to LEOs.

(2) The volume of shooting and the mass casualties should have given LEOs an extreme sense of both importance and urgency.

A 72-minute response-time does not correlate with either (1) or (2).

In my absence of information, it smacks of LEO commanders carefully planning a tactical approach, getting all the details right before proceeding, when in hindsight what was needed was a quick rush of the door--in seven minutes, not seventy-two. What am I missing?


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To: Vision Thing

I’m guessing they were concerned about the room being booby trapped with a bomb or something. And since the shooting had stopped, maybe they didn’t feel the need to rush in.


121 posted on 10/03/2017 6:32:13 AM PDT by gswilder
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To: Lakewood
Thanks for your informative response.

the shooting stopped after 15 - 18 minutes

Other than your personal anecdote from listening to the scanner, can you provide a written source for the duration of shooting?

122 posted on 10/03/2017 8:22:59 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

I assume you are talking 10 minutes to have any presence at the scene, another while to figure out what to do, then to find where the shooter is roughly then finally exactly and how to take them out... 72 minutes seems like a long time, but I am not going to attack the police or their policies blindly....

If it turns out there are things they could and should have done better, more efficiently that will come out and policies will be changed....

I am not going to arm chair quarterback this, when the facts of what actually happened are still not fully out there.


123 posted on 10/03/2017 8:28:59 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Hebrews 11:6

No. At approximately 32 minutes into the event someone on the radio asks how long ago the last shots were fired. At least one response was 15 minutes ago.


124 posted on 10/03/2017 9:05:48 AM PDT by Lakewood
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To: HamiltonJay

Well, I agree that we must await the investigation before passing judgment. Throughout this thread I’ve asked repeatedly for documentation of what happened through responsible print reporting, without success.


125 posted on 10/03/2017 9:50:59 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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