Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

LAX shooting: TSA officer Hernandez bled for 33 minutes at scene -report
Associated press via NBC news ^ | 11/15/13 |  Tami Abdollah, The Associated Press

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at usnews.nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airportshooting; callousdisregard; donutwatch; firstaidtraining; gerardohernandez; lax; laxshooting; leo; tsa
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 101-113 next last
To: FBD

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.


21 posted on 11/16/2013 10:07:03 AM PST by faithhopecharity
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: CodeToad

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.


22 posted on 11/16/2013 10:10:19 AM PST by FBD (My carbon footprint is bigger than yours)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: null and void

23 posted on 11/16/2013 10:12:30 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (We're At That Awkward Stage: It's too late to vote them out, too early to shoot the bastards.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: faithhopecharity

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?


24 posted on 11/16/2013 10:14:15 AM PST by FBD (My carbon footprint is bigger than yours)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: FBD

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.


25 posted on 11/16/2013 10:15:17 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (When religions have to beg the gov't for a waiver, we are already under socialism.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: libstripper
If they don’t have the guts to go in harm’s way and save the wounded, then why all the heavy body armor and armament for SWAT teams?

It makes them feel important?

26 posted on 11/16/2013 10:15:44 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: Georgia Girl 2

LOL you go girl


27 posted on 11/16/2013 10:15:49 AM PST by bigheadfred
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: Cyber Liberty

Yah, hopefully AW won’t be back.


28 posted on 11/16/2013 10:16:06 AM PST by FBD (My carbon footprint is bigger than yours)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: FBD

Bureaucracy and common sense “aft gang awry,” to borrow an old Scottish line.


29 posted on 11/16/2013 10:16:34 AM PST by Elsiejay
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Georgia Girl 2

I’m no fan of the TSA, but for goodness sake show a little respect for the dead.


30 posted on 11/16/2013 10:20:25 AM PST by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Gone Galt, 11/07/12----No king but Christ! Don't tread on me!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: Georgia Girl 2

What an awful comment.

.


31 posted on 11/16/2013 10:22:34 AM PST by Mears
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: FBD

Columbine replay, with a side of airplanes.

Good thing we have all those MRAPs....


32 posted on 11/16/2013 10:22:55 AM PST by gaijin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Erik Latranyi

Not sure I agree with that entirely, but your point does have merit, as evidenced by this case.


33 posted on 11/16/2013 10:23:51 AM PST by FBD (My carbon footprint is bigger than yours)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: Mears

Agreed.


34 posted on 11/16/2013 10:24:12 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: Erik Latranyi
That seems to be the way these days.

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.

35 posted on 11/16/2013 10:26:07 AM PST by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Gone Galt, 11/07/12----No king but Christ! Don't tread on me!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: null and void
By the “ important thing”, I was referring to the officer “being able to get home safely at the end of his shift.”
But I guess TSA officers aren't in that club... there’s a hierarchy in gubmint safety protocols.
36 posted on 11/16/2013 10:29:40 AM PST by FBD (My carbon footprint is bigger than yours)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: FBD

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.


37 posted on 11/16/2013 10:29:55 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Elsiejay

Great expression: “aft gang awry,”
I’m gonna have to remember that one.


38 posted on 11/16/2013 10:31:50 AM PST by FBD (My carbon footprint is bigger than yours)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

“”show a little respect for the dead.”

That dead didn’t show any respect for the living, so screw it.


39 posted on 11/16/2013 10:32:33 AM PST by CodeToad (When ignorance rules a person's decision they are resorting to superstition.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies]

To: dragnet2

“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.


40 posted on 11/16/2013 10:34:16 AM PST by CodeToad (When ignorance rules a person's decision they are resorting to superstition.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 101-113 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson