Does anyone really believe this was a training exercise?
They screwed up a bust, hit the wrong room, and the real perp got away.
I think you’re correct. The first thing a LEO does after entering an abode and restraining the occupant is to find out who he is. Take his ID and run it. That doesn’t take 45 min. And they put him in the shower. What does that mean. Most hotel rooms have a tub shower, not a stall. Was the water on? Did they cover his face with a towel or wash cloth? But with all the other stuff going on with the FFEBS this doesn’t even make a ripple, let alone a wave.
It could be even weirder than that in this world. They literally could have just had a beef with this guy for some reason, maybe even based off something like he told a friend he was thinking of running for office and they have decided he is not a good fit.
You would think such an exercise would be monitored by those who set it up, and they would have immediately recognized the guy being interrogated was not the actor they had hired for the job. I’m sure they have cameras all around the interrogation site to record and review after the event. Or you think the real actor would have searched out the people who were supposed to be interrogating him when they never showed up.
Or even just do it in a controlled environment where you may not accidentally waterboard a civilian for an hour, because there are not civilians there.
Something strange here.