Posted on 11/16/2013 9:39:09 AM PST by FBD
- An airport security officer lay helplessly bleeding after a gunman opened fire at Los Angeles International Airport as paramedics waited 150 yards away because police had not declared the terminal safe to enter, according to two law enforcement officials.It would be 33 minutes before Transportation Security Administration Officer Gerardo Hernandez, who was about 20 feet from an exit, would be wheeled out by police to an ambulance, said the officials, who were briefed on the investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity because the probe was still ongoing into the Nov. 1 shooting.For all but five of those minutes, there was no threat from the suspected gunman — he had been shot and was in custody, they said.
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I am sick and tired of the airport mess and we have stopped flying altogether.
(to avoid the groping and the xrays, which doctors say not to do for health reasons). The government definitely needs to use newer technology/methods that are not invasive of citzens’ health, bodies, or privacy. The current situation at the airport is just HORRIBLE!
BUT it is also just terrible, appalling... that anybody (regular American citizen trying to fly...or “TSA agent” or anybody) should be left to bleed for 33 minutes. This, in a very public place where there were thousands of people who could have tried to help, also there are medics and also first aid kits, etc, all there.
We truly live in a savage “society” — or rather, no society at all.
imho.
I’m in total agreement with you. I watched a cop park his car *right* where the Life Flight helicopter needed to land, forcing them to make another go around to pick up an accident victim. He was just in the way of the first responders, totally useless.
Agree. I’m no fan of the TSA , but this poor guy needed help, and was blocked by a cop from getting help. This seems to be a trend encouraged by? The police union?
Law enforcement no longer intervenes to stop killers.
Law enforcement sets up a perimeter and waits until the shooter has killed themselves, then counts up the bodies.
If you are trapped with a mass killer, you will get no help from law enforcement.
It makes them feel important?
LOL you go girl
Yah, hopefully AW won’t be back.
Bureaucracy and common sense “aft gang awry,” to borrow an old Scottish line.
I’m no fan of the TSA, but for goodness sake show a little respect for the dead.
What an awful comment.
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Columbine replay, with a side of airplanes.
Good thing we have all those MRAPs....
Not sure I agree with that entirely, but your point does have merit, as evidenced by this case.
Agreed.
Cops don't extend themselves at all -- its all about keeping themselves safe. Which is understandable to a certain degree, but when it totally supersedes their mandate to "protect and serve," then something needs to change.
What is ironic is anything that happens at LAX, ya got a army of over paid government responders...800 people show up, bomb squads, helicopters, swat teams, the FBI, a conga line of paramedics, the president comments, the mayor and his entourage of overpaid city government employee show up for cameras and back to back news conferences, which always turn into a back slapping fest.
All this and some innocent guy just bleeds to death on the floor.
Great expression: “aft gang awry,”
I’m gonna have to remember that one.
“”show a little respect for the dead.”
That dead didn’t show any respect for the living, so screw it.
“All this and some innocent guy just bleeds to death on the floor.”
True, which also goes to show how out of control and harmful our governments have become. I HATE the TSA as probably 97% here do, but he was the victim of the shooter and was allowed to just lay there and bleed to death. This isn’t the first time this has happened with a cop standing there.
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