Posted on 02/24/2018 9:13:27 AM PST by dennisw
Senior Brandon Huff rushed to the building where the shooting was taking place when he found out his girlfriend was inside.
She texted me, ‘There is a shooter in the room. I love you,’ so I freaked out. I dropped everything in my hands,” Huff said. […]
“The school resource officer was behind a stairwell wall, just standing there, and he had his gun drawn, and he was just pointing it at the building,” Huff said. “Shots started going off inside, and you could hear them going off over and over again.” […]
“He was pointing his gun at nothing. He was pointing his gun just at the building with kids in it, and he was just talking on the radio, and he never did anything for four minutes,” Huff said. […]
“He’s the only one with a gun,” Huff said. “He’s wearing a bullet proof vest, he has all that while school security guards, coaches were running in shielding kids — Coach Feis, Hixon were running in, shielding kids from bullets and losing their lives while he did nothing.”
That, and to shoot dogs.
. and why should we expect a “school resource officer” to fight like a battle-hardened Ranger
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He is a Broward county police officer with firearms training, body armor and weaponry. His salary is $75,000 a year not including benefits. He chose not to protect and serve. I would expect him to engage. He chose to protect himself and leave those unarmed children unprotected and exposed to a well armed psychotic murderer. I don’t judge him because I wasn’t ever in that position. I pray to God that I would have the courage to die defending those kids and not have to live the rest of my life knowing that I didn’t
An unarmed senior ran to the building where the shooter was to try and get to his girlfriend. Give him a weapon.
Instead they hid behind concrete and their cars out in the parking lot. Disgraceful as is your defense of their actions inaction.
Strange that the Broward kids who actually communicate like adults and do not just fling angry words directed towards gun owners and Republicans are not getting any MSM attention. Yet they are among just a few acting like adults.
Knowing what we know now and what we have learned about inaction of the authorities for years, the preceding months and the during the murders, a room of family and friends of the victims the one guy responsible in the room with them and spent all their energy attacking those who had literally no role.
The counter was that the police can not be everywhere.
The addendum now is that even if the police are there they will not do anything.
Coral Springs officers who responded and actually took over are talking now and proving that the Broward Cowards are not worthy of apologetics
http://miami.cbslocal.com/2018/02/23/coral-springs-police-recall-response-high-school-shooting/
Broward County is demorat saturated.
“How do we know the geography teacher with the .38 and no vest would do it better?”
Because the bullets are coming AT them. It’s call DEFENDING, something the gov’t cannot do. They can only RESPOND and as we learned, not always ‘on time’.
Stop being sheeple people.
From the police forum
http://www.policeforum.org/assets/docs/Critical_Issues_Series/the%20police%20response%20to%20active%20shooter%20incidents%202014.pdf
The shooter may be stopped by
arrest, by containment, or by use of deadly force.
And some policies note that when an active
shooter incident occurs at a school, a School
Resource Officer (SRO) may be the first officer at
the scene who must make a decision about whether
to respond alone.
Other departments require that officers wait
until a certain number of officers have arrived.
Those officers are instructed to form a “contact
team” that responds as a unit with the mission of
stopping the shooter and preventing his escape.
Some departments’ policies recommend a con-
tact team of a certain size—often four officers—but
also specify that fewer officers may respond if it is
apparent that a full contact team cannot be assem-
bled quickly. Some of these agencies caution that
a smaller team should be deployed only as a last
resort.
Some policies provide that only one contact
team should be deployed, and that officers who
arrive at the scene later may join that contact team.
Other departments call for multiple contact teams
to be deployed quickly as additional officers arrive
at the scene. If multiple teams are deployed, their
movements and actions should be tracked and coor
-
dinated by a designated commander, to ensure that
they don’t unknowingly cross paths with each other
or spend time on redundant searches, for example.
Some departments do not offer specific guid-
ance on how many officers should be at the scene
before at least one officer moves to stop the shooter,
saying only that those decisions must be made on
a case-by-case basis, depending on circumstances.
My father was a cop from ‘55 - ‘85. Couple of years in Pasadena,CA with the bulk of it in Richmond, CA, a true shithole.
Back then all patrol cars had a shotgun, the sidearm was a .357. Sargents had a tear gas gun in the trunk.
The current motto of police these days seems to be “I’m going home tonight after my shift” and it seems to matter more to them than innocent children’s lives.
Time and again the LEO's fail out of abject cowardice...Exceptions are rare.(Like the off-duty police officer hero in MD who, the other day, refused to give an attacker a clear view of the attacker's target and took a life-ending shotgun blast to the body at close range.)
NEA-type persons might be more interested in wondering just what the poor, down-trodden attacker had experienced to make him do such a thing...All the while hiding in a classroom closet while gunshots are loud and clear...
Yes. Sometimes the brain cells gallop away no matter how hard I yell “Whoa!”.
I was testing everyone to see if they would catch that. Not really. I just typed faster than my brain cells. Thanks for catching that. A geography teacher could explain faults to the SRO though.
And training.
That should be fault lines. Sheesh, time to put the brain out to pasture cause it sure ain’t in the race anymore.
Funny. It seems that when LEO enter buildings where a bad guy is hiding, they do.
The "Newhall CHP Incident" of 1970 and the "Miami FBI Incident" proved that to be insufficient. Since then LEO's went to semi-auto pistols and AR type rifles.
I'd be willing to bet the Coward County deputy had a Glock of some caliber. A weapon of any type is useless though if the LEO is unwilling to close with and engage the shooter.
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