Posted on 09/18/2013 11:00:32 AM PDT by kristinn
A tactical response team of the Capitol Police, a force that guards the US Capitol complex, was told to leave the scene by a supervisor instead of aiding municipal officers.
The Capitol Police department said senior officials were investigating.
Aaron Alexis, 34, killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday.
"I don't think it's a far stretch to say that some lives may have been saved if we were allowed to intervene," a Capitol Police source familiar with the incident told the BBC.
A former Navy reservist, Alexis was working as a technical contractor for the Navy and had a valid pass and security clearance allowing him entry to the highly secure building in south-east Washington DC.
He entered the building about 8:15 local time (12:15 GMT) and opened fire. He was later killed by police who stormed the building.
But multiple sources in the Capitol Police department have told the BBC that its highly trained and heavily armed four-man Containment and Emergency Response Team (Cert) was near the Navy Yard when the initial report of an active shooter came in about 8:20 local time.
The officers, wearing full tactical gear and armed with HK-416 assault weapons, arrived outside Building 197 a few minutes later, an official with knowledge of the incident told the BBC.
According to a Capitol Police source, an officer with the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), Washington DC's main municipal force, told the Capitol Cert officers they were the only police on the site equipped with long guns and requested their assistance in searching for the gunman.
When the Capitol Police team radioed in to their superiors, they were told by a watch commander to leave the scene, the BBC was told.
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Did you see this?
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/09/19/family-recounts-chilling-airport-encounter-with-navy-gunman/
What we need to do is source every last one of the false statements put out to the press and their sources on second, third shooters... down to other descriptions re: clothing, guns used, etc..
We all know there will be unnamed sources and the old ‘victim that got out may have been confused by uniform of police personnel, etc..
He sure shot a lot of people being a bad shot (stated by witnesses there).
bfl
Had to become a crisis for the b*stard in the white hut to exploit.
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