I don’t understand the urgency. They’ve been hunting this guy for days and now he’s essentially cornered.
If they didn’t know for certain that he didn’t have an aresnal and a bunch of food, then they didn’t know for certain if he had hostages. There doesn’t seem to have been much, if any, communication, at least from the reports I’ve read.
Yet they couldn’t wait him out? Not even for one day? Even if just to save the structure and not risk a fire in a state forest?
Flamethrowers or a Hellfire missile would have been so much more certain, and totally cooler.
Drones rule!
Not remotely possible with snow on the ground.
That’s what I was thinking....why did they have to get him out of the cabin right away?
I’ve seen coverage of other standoffs locally...they usually stretch out for hours, and half the time the guy surrenders. Isn’t that the whole police procedure - to wear the guy down and get him to ‘come out with your hands in the air’?
On a related note, a few months ago, somebody in my town (Topeka) shot 2 cops dead. The police immediately stormed a few addresses associated with him, and after a day cornered him in a house. They threw flash bang grenades in and stormed the house - killing him (again not alot of waiting him out).
I remember the usual morning gagggle of cops at the gas station was absent when this happened. it made sense - there was a manhunt going on.
Yesterday - somebody shot two people, killing one, and is on the run. Another manhunt right? Well, not enough of a manhunt to keep the gaggle of cops away from their free coffee this morning. Wonder why.
Interesting thread just to read the comments from the “burn him alive” crowd. The “usual nuke mecca” types. I don’t have much sympathy for this cop killer but disdain how he was executed. There are more human ways to kill someone than burning them alive FCOL.
They couldn’t wait- it would intrude on Dear Leader’s address to his subjects.