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Minneapolis Police Chief to Newsmax: Officer Didn't Hesitate or Wait for Help
Newsmax ^ | August 28, 2025 | Eric Mack

Posted on 08/28/2025 1:53:42 PM PDT by Navy Patriot

In stark contrast to allegations leveled against the delayed first response to past school mass shooters in Parkland, Florida, and Uvalde, Texas – and the first assassination attempt of President Donald Trump – the first Minneapolis officer to go into the church Wednesday did so without hesitation.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara hailed the unnamed officer's bravery in an exclusive interview with Newsmax's "National Report" on Thursday morning, saying the officer acted fast with "nothing but a handgun and no special protection."

"I had some parishioners who were present come up to me yesterday at the scene, very emotional, and tell me about how quickly a Minneapolis police officer came into the church after the shooting had begun,"...

"they described it as just a regular police officer they would see on the street – not wearing a helmet, no SWAT gear, no rifle, nothing like that."

Another person told O'Hara that the first officer at the scene, stepped past a "crowd" of "very, very seriously injured" children, and "ran toward" danger without hesitation.

"He told me that he, the cop, came in and asked him, too, 'Where's the shooter?' And he pointed in the direction to where the shooting had been coming from and he said that officer just immediately ran toward that danger with nothing but a handgun and no special protection," O'Hara said.

The quick action in Minneapolis stands in sharp relief to criticism surrounding law enforcement's handling of other school shootings. In 2018, officers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, were faulted for failing to move in as a gunman murdered 17 people and wounded 17 more, prompting national outrage and a state investigation that found lapses in response and leadership.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; police

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Hero Cops, there's more than one!
1 posted on 08/28/2025 1:53:42 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot

Good man. Normal cop.


2 posted on 08/28/2025 1:55:44 PM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: stanne

He was a good man - and we need to recruit more of them.

The murdering slime didn’t kill as many kids as he wanted and then shot himself - is it possible that this one cop may have caused this perp to end his spree early?


3 posted on 08/28/2025 2:10:46 PM PDT by Chainmail (You can vote your way into Socialism - but you will have to shoot your way out.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Job well done, Officer.

Law enforcement personnel today pretty much fit into these categories:

Honorable men and women who truly follow the oath to protect and serve their communities.

Meatheads and bullies who get off on the power trips that their badge and weapon provides.

Incompetent DEI hires.

Cowardly drones who will blindly follow the orders of lunatic leftist politicians and be the tip of the spear to confiscate your gun, arrest you for self defense, or round you up for “insurrection” aka free speech while letting “mostly peaceful” thugs burn, loot and murder.

This officer definitely fits category 1.


4 posted on 08/28/2025 2:23:20 PM PDT by pburiak (You really think we can vote our way out of this? That's so cute...)
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To: Navy Patriot
Just listened to the latest presser. The Chief of Police was asked if they spoke with the Mom. He said they are still trying. Asked if he spoke with the Dad, he said he didn't know.

What a waste of breath.

5 posted on 08/28/2025 2:27:46 PM PDT by FatherofFive (We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor)
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To: Navy Patriot

Where are the feminists screaming about Toxic Mascalinity?


6 posted on 08/28/2025 2:33:03 PM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: Chainmail

“The murdering slime didn’t kill as many kids as he wanted and then shot himself - is it possible that this one cop may have caused this perp to end his spree early?”

That’s what I imagine.

The creep murders kids. He’s a coward. Cop knows that. Moves in on him and bing. We’re done

I don’t know. I write stories. I’m a girl. But that’s what I imagine


7 posted on 08/28/2025 2:34:39 PM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: Navy Patriot
Hero Cops, there's more than one!

Amen to that.

And we apparently need an organized system to identify tranny-psychos and derail their criminal careers way earlier. From these mass-murder incidents, there seem to have been plenty of warning signs that fit a typical pattern.

Of course, one sign is showing an interest in tranny-hood. That needs to be watched for general sanity reasons, for the subject's own benefit, and for everyone else's.

"In-Trannity" is obviously a danger to the public in itself.

8 posted on 08/28/2025 2:40:25 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: Navy Patriot

Why isn’t he named? Why should we believe this story?

Just trust us doesn’t cut it! Show us the proof.


9 posted on 08/28/2025 2:48:44 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: Navy Patriot

There’s something non-toxic about toxic masculinity. I remind our viewers of Stepfanie Tyler:

but watching Trump survive an assassination attempt and act like a total f*cking savage just shifted me into some strange, patriotic gear that my fancy-feminism-white-men-bad infected brain never showed me

like, the dude took a bullet and stood up with blood dripping down his face, and rallied a f*cking crowd while fist pumping, yelling “FIGHT!”

sorry, but i’m voting for that.

https://x.com/wildbarestepf/status/1812349004530983364?lang=en


10 posted on 08/28/2025 2:57:06 PM PDT by JOHN ADAMS
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To: JOHN ADAMS

You’ve got the right screen name.


11 posted on 08/28/2025 3:02:10 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
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To: Navy Patriot

What’s the Vegas line on this cop being a combat veteran. We run towards gunfire it’s in our very DNA. I would not be surprised to find out this officer is a Marine or Army vet who has seen combat. Good job either way officer.


12 posted on 08/28/2025 3:05:28 PM PDT by GenXPolymath
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I don't follow the Vegas Oddsmakers, however I agree with your expressed possibility that this Officer is a US Military combat veteran.

Ones thought is "Identify source of threat, neutralize".

13 posted on 08/28/2025 3:15:42 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
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To: Navy Patriot

Winston Churchill said something along the lines that when faced with mortal danger, if you turn in attack it directly, you reduce the danger by half, if you turn and flee you double it.


14 posted on 08/28/2025 3:24:47 PM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: Chainmail

I think that’s very possible. Many of these spree shooters hunker down and commit suicide when they hit resistance. Somehow it knocks them out of their zone.


15 posted on 08/28/2025 3:26:47 PM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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