Don’t judge them.
This is how they’ve been trained regarding active shooters.
Until the active shooter response paradigm is changed, don’t blame law enforcement for following the laws and orders they’ve been given.
When the stuff hits the fan most people revert back to training & doctrine.
What needs to be brought forward is the training manual and the doctrines.
The Marines storm the objective and overcome. Police departments are not the Marines and I wouldn’t expect them to be.
As I have said and read in other posts along the same lines as this subject, the failure is systemic and it starts with making the target as hard as possible. That is where the failure occurred. The rest is just tragedy because the failure occurred Systemically.
I feel like I can’t NOT judge them. I wasn’t there, and have never been involved in something like this, but it is all wrong to me.
I have received the Active Duty (”Code Silver”) training, and I will tell you, it didn’t sit right with me at all. I know they tell you to escape and run in the other direction.
But if I saw a person with a weapon walk down a hallway towards a bunch of my co-workers, I simply don’t think I could go the other way. I don’t think I could follow those guidelines.
So how could these men with guns stand outside, hearing the shooting and screaming...not go inside?
I find this appalling. If it were one man only, Pederson, I can understand a single man being a coward. But three of them?
This is a very different situation.