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Orlando Shooter...Did you know in first 10 mins LE had him trapped in bathroom, told to stand down, exit, and wait for SWAT
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Did you know officers entered the nightclub and had the suspect trapped in the bathroom in the opening minutes of the shooting but we're told to stand down and wait for SWAT?
During an active shooter scenario, police respond with what is known as "active rescue." The first 4 to 5 officers that arrive on scene will enter as a team (contact team). Their purpose is to stop the threat. This is the answer to Columbine. More lives are lost due to waiting for SWAT to arrive, so they enter to stop the threat. Here is what one of the first officers on scene said:
‘I grabbed my assault rifle and ran’: An officer’s account of the critical early minutes in Orlando
After an initial burst of fire between Omar Mateen and a security guard at the Pulse nightclub, a group of five or six police officers arrived on the scene within minutes, broke through a large glass window and entered the club as the killing of 49 people was underway inside, according to a Belle Isle, Fla., police officer who was among the first responders.
Officer Brandon Cornwell, 25, said the ad-hoc team spent the first seconds in the dimly lit club “trying to locate exactly where the shooter was — we kept hearing people scream and shots fired.”
He and the other officers followed the sounds to the bathroom area, where Mateen was now holed up. But instead of entering the bathroom, the officers aimed their assault rifles toward the area and were told by commanders to hold their position as the sounds of gunfire stopped, according to Cornwell. And so they waited “15 or 20 minutes — could’ve been longer” — until the SWAT team arrived, he said. Cornwell never saw Mateen.
Cornwell’s account is the first by a police officer who went inside the club during the first critical moments of the shooting. The FBI said Monday that police first responders “engaged the shooter” inside the club at 2:08 a.m., but Cornwell’s account raises questions about whether gunfire was actually exchanged, why first responders were told not to pursue Mateen into the bathroom, and whether any SWAT or other officers entered the club once the first responders retreated.
[link to www.washingtonpost.com (secure)]
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Thread: Police told not to pursue Orlando shooter for ‘15 or 20 minutes — could’ve been longer’ until SWAT arrived
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