Posted on 06/28/2018 8:17:11 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Newly released body camera footage shows Las Vegas police officers pausing for several minutes in the hallway of the Mandalay Bay hotel — as mass shooter Stephen Paddock guns down 58 people on the floor directly above them.
“Holy sh-t that’s rapid fire,” officer Cordell Hendrex utters in the chilling video, reacting to Paddock’s gunfire — which he later described as “like thunder all around and above us,” according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The officer and his first-day trainee, Elif Varsin, stayed on the 31st floor for four-and-a-half minutes, even as they heard the shooter’s position reported as “the 32nd floor, room 135.”
“I’m inside the Mandalay Bay on the 31st floor,” Hendrex says in the video. “I can hear the automatic fire coming from one floor ahead, one floor above us.”
In a report, he later wrote that he “froze right there in the middle of the hall” after being terrified.
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“When seconds count the police are cowering somewhere safe.”
Is that what happened in Annapolis yesterday?
When they knew the shoot was on the 32nd floor, why were they on the 31st?
Yes, but note the rate of fire with a bump stock is LESS than full auto.
And accuracy is also reduced.
NO.
If only Paddock had a dog in the room many lives may have been spared.
If Paddock had a dog barking in his room the Las Vegas police would have been enraged to the point that they would have stormed the room guns blazing to shoot the offending dog.
Like broward county cowards these cops waited until the shooting was over and yet NO ONE NO ONE!! see’s the need for a full investigation NO ONE! We know why the broward county cowards were told to stand down, money and Obama’s DOJ and FBI fear. What’s las Vegas’s excuse?
I don’t know.
“I don’t know”
Really?
Really. I’m not omniscient, and was pretty busy yesterday. When did the cops show up, and what did they do once they got there? Enlighten me.
Reports are they showed up within 60 seconds and apprehended the suspect asap.
EXCELLENT!
I knew they captured the guy, but the details were a little hazy.
A typical mass shooting is over in about 3 minutes, and the typical response time is something like 6 minutes. These guys done good!
(FYI, one of my former bosses was there for the ESL shooting, he doesn’t talk about it, but I’ve been told he was busy herding coworkers away from the shooter)
That seems logical on the face of it, but it in no way contradicts the idea that the “ the first “link” in the “chain of command” (who- or what-ever stands “above” the cops in the corridor) may be “in on” something very nefarious. And also, you have to admit that this inaction mirrors something we’ve seen many times before, re: school shootings.There is a REASON, don’t you think, that there has been so little of consequence revealed by LE about the details of this, the most hideous mass murder in anyone’s memory. NONE of it adds up, as was apparent even a few days in.SO-—you’re focusing on the logistics of what looks like suspicious inaction of the cops in the corridor-—what I suggested is that this could be a red herring designed to put the focus on THEM, and keep it off whoever might be the real culprits in BOTH the “crime and the cover-up”-—I will provide the name of the female attorney who’s acting on behalf of some of the relatives of victims of the massacre-—I can’t remember it now, but everything I’ve heard her say speaks to the REAL issues, not necessarily some ambiguous flabby link in the chain of command that kept those corridor cops frozen in place.
Here’s her name, as promised: Catherine Lombardo.
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