Wait. What? You mean to tell that if some nut pointed a rifle at you you wouldn’t retreat? What crap.
I would not have retreated: I didn’t retreat when I was shot at and hit in 1967 and I would not retreat now. Easy to see why police work has lost its prestige.
Wait. What? You mean to tell that if some nut pointed a rifle at you you wouldn’t retreat? What crap.
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Not permanently. It’s your job to get your weapon out and shoot the perp.
> You mean to tell that if some nut pointed a rifle at you you wouldn’t retreat? <
That’s a valid point. On the other hand, none of the Secret Service agents next to Trump retreated as the bullets flew. The small female agent even tried to shield Trump with her body.
I dunno. Maybe we shouldn’t expect the same level of dedication from a sheriff as we would from a Secret Service agent. (I’m not being sarcastic there. It’s just a comment.)
Not retreat- pull a semi-auto and pop back up when the dude took a first shot. From that distance (the ladder were he bought it) for any competent officer- he could have put 4 or 5 round right up his a@@ and that would have been (spinally speaking) the end of his firing. A the least the officer should have (and indeed may have) radio’d the central control about this shooter— pronto. Everyone here has some idea of what they themselves might have done.
The roof should have been off limits and in the perimeter. Period. Huge perhaps intentional screwup.
Exactly!
Even if it was a quick duck with the intent to bring out a weapon. How many LEO's practice urgently climbing a ladder with a active weapon in one hand?
In any event, it sounds like the gunfight commenced within a second or two. Who in their right mind would stick their head up if they had reason to believe the shooter was aiming at them?
One of my early questions was whether it was that LEO that shot the suspect; with the right angle of fire they could have serioously disrupted his plans.
Did the Officer get home safely?
That’s all that matters.