Those police officers are cowards.
“If they had run in there and escalated the shooting and some of their bullets had hit people, what would your comment be?”
They have been taking a lot of flak over this. The story has now been revised that there we talking with the terrorist, they are claiming there were no shots being fired till the end, we shall see.
However, the police as earlier reported did NOT go in after him, he came out when they breached the wall and the hostages were coming out. So how many did they shoot then?
Worse yet, 3 officers were engaged in a firefight at 2:10 am, why did they miss? At 50 feet I can put 6 in a 6 inch group with a hand gun. It is how I practice.