The shooter came out the door of his suite, and shot someone in the hallway. There being no place to use for cover on the hallway, the normal officers had no choice but to hold in place and wait for swat.
The use of the term Keystone Cops here is ridiculous. Officers arrived at the hallway to the room relatively quickly and handled the situation professionally.
Other officer across the city were rescuing people and rendering medial aid as much as they could.
Officers handled this situation very well. They quickly cut off the hallway to his room so nobody would venture into a bad situation.
The swat team was at the room within one hour and ten minutes.
You have to plan for the breach of the exact location so that officers are not killed on scene.
They need to know the layout of the room, and exactly what they are facing.
Please that you anti-Cop rant and shove it where the sun doesn’t shine.
Another consideration was the police were not sure the shooter was still in the room.
They had the hotel room covered, there was no more shooting so they methodically sealed the building, searched floor by floor to see if the shooter was trying to escape while simultaneously evacuating the people from their rooms to safety.
There was a better than even chance that the shooter had a bomb in his room set to detonate when they tried to enter the room, which could have taken out a large section of the building
The shooter came out the door of his suite, and shot someone in the hallway. There being no place to use for cover on the hallway, the normal officers had no choice but to hold in place and wait for swat.
Otherwise, I agree with you.
Also, the mass killer stopped shooting after he shot through the door. That is probably when he committed suicide.
So there was not as much urgency to blast the door down. The shooting had already stopped.