Completely overlooked in this post that seems to have become another of the infamous Freeper exercises in cop hating, is that paramedic service is supplied by the fire department, not the police department. The medics are unarmed, and have no means of defending themselves. Accordingly, they “stage” at a nearby safe location until the police declare the area safe for them. In this incident, there was originally a belief that there was more than one shooter, so the “clear for medics” wouldn’t have come until the search of the immediate vicinity of both the shooting site and the location where the gunman was finally shot had been completed.
And, for what it’s worth, using the time the patient was wheeled out produces an inaccurate result. The protocol these days is to initiate emergency treatment prior to transporting the patient. He’d have had vital signs assessed, IV’s started, heart monitored etc. prior to being transported.
Since we're spending tens of hundreds of billions on law enforcement, where they have bomb squads, armored vehicles, negotiators, swat teams, computer crimes specialist, forensic teams, investigators, pilots why not a simple medic to go along with entry teams?
Do they not exist?
Is this too complex?
I will be honest with you, I'm not a fan of * most* police anymore, after witnessing their actions time and again, while I was on a fire dept. They do in fact, interfere with rescue operations on a regular basis. If you disagree, fine, but watch this short ^^^video above ^^^ of a cop arresting a fire department captain on an accident and tell me whointhehell this cop was “protecting”.