Posted on 06/28/2018 8:17:11 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Newly released body camera footage shows Las Vegas police officers pausing for several minutes in the hallway of the Mandalay Bay hotel — as mass shooter Stephen Paddock guns down 58 people on the floor directly above them.
“Holy sh-t that’s rapid fire,” officer Cordell Hendrex utters in the chilling video, reacting to Paddock’s gunfire — which he later described as “like thunder all around and above us,” according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The officer and his first-day trainee, Elif Varsin, stayed on the 31st floor for four-and-a-half minutes, even as they heard the shooter’s position reported as “the 32nd floor, room 135.”
“I’m inside the Mandalay Bay on the 31st floor,” Hendrex says in the video. “I can hear the automatic fire coming from one floor ahead, one floor above us.”
In a report, he later wrote that he “froze right there in the middle of the hall” after being terrified.
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So cops are pretty damn useless. Fierce if granny has a taillight out. But otherwise. Useless Union thugs. Go figure.
When seconds count the police are cowering somewhere safe.
How many people could have been saved if they had made an effort to enter the room?
Very bad. Very, very bad.
Pass the tinfoil....but....
This looks like the next chapter of Obama’s gun running operation.
Feds set up an assault on a conservative crowd to spark anti-gun furor.....
I have (yet another) dumb question: Is it truly possible to fire that rapidly using just a “bumper stock”?
Were any dogs shot?
There doesn't seem much effort to move to the scene of the shooting and attempt to intervene.
It is pretty clear at this point that many police officers and security people have insufficient training to deal with an active shooter situation. Seems like we need more veterans with their skill sets and training to serve in those jobs.
They are just people.
Hard to judge when you weren't there.
At this point, if anyone still thinks paddock did the shooting, they’re very far behind the curve.
Shelter in place mentality from “trained professionals”.
However, they're supposed to be trained to respond and it seems to me there was no leader taking charge.
Everyone seemed to be looking to someone else to take control or waiting for instructions.
This was an extraordinary event no one could foresee but this does seem to indicate the need for scenario training and finding better team leaders.
“We waited for the shooting to stop”
They seem to do that alot.
Yes.
You can do the same thing without a bump stock by anchoring your finger in your pocket and slowly pulling the rifle forward with steady pressure until it begins to have the same effect as a “bump stock”.
Having said that however accuracy is very limited, more of a “spray and pray”.
This whole incident is fishy at the least and flat out ridiculous with the lack of transparency and details.
The whole thing seems weird. The scenario given leads a lot to what really happened. We don’t know what the police on the ground were being told to do or not do.
The information given to the public seems sketchy, at best. I’m just saying, I wouldn’t be in such a rush to judge the officers on the scene, because we just don’t know.
Yes. to many it would sound like an automatic weapon just due to the increased rapidity of the shots.
It pretty much only works well if you have a ton of targets in front of you because you aren’t aiming carefully.
They were in on it and were told to stand down.
Some folks need to be hanged for this.
Casinos know EVERYTHING. It is easy to tell ex military from wanna be. I do know this whole thing is rotten.
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