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‘I grabbed my assault rifle and ran’: An officer’s account of the critical early minutes in Orlando
www.washingtonpost.com ^ | June 21, 2016 | Stephanie McCrummen and Abigail Hauslohner

Posted on 06/22/2016 3:07:33 AM PDT by Enterprise

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To: ClearCase_guy
Fully automatic weapons are always within arms' length of a LEO?

Does the trunk have an interior release? Or does a key lock slow the officer down?

Did the system log the time of the call and the time of arrival, giving the 38 second arrival?

61 posted on 06/22/2016 7:51:31 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: Fantasywriter
There was a report omar purchased 3 airline tickets for travel to California that was to take place 2 (maybe 3) days after the attack. Wifey’s mother is supposedly ill, not doing well and it was a family trip to see her.

Considering omar did not visit the in-laws & poor wifey had to come up with her own money to make her only trip to California to see her dying father, the stated reason for trip is laughable. Suddenly omar is taking a family trip to see the in laws? Right.

pravda.us

(I have not seen anything stating whether she was or was not on that flight.)

62 posted on 06/22/2016 7:55:33 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: lodi90

I had always assumed that the armed security guard was inside the club, but I think they only had unarmed bouncers inside the club and the armed security were located in the parking lot outside the club. Not very good security for a situation like that, and the armed security is a pretty easy target for anyone that knows the setup. One of the victims inside the club was a female bouncer.


63 posted on 06/22/2016 7:58:10 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Travis McGee; Enterprise; piusv; metmom; ebb tide; marshmallow; iowamark; Red Steel

Ummm, these people are carrying a MANNEQUIN, folks....

https://www.instagram.com/p/BGqjc30xKVD/

Those are still photographs taken from the original RT video footage that ran that night.

This analysis below of the RT video shows that the six people carrying the ‘victim’, err mannequinn, were carrying it in the direction BACK to the Pulse nightclub.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiLk-V9DFpc

The crisis actor wearing the hat and carrying the mannequin was later interviewed. Here he uses the name Christopher Hanson:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmb8MTRcNcE

The same crisis actor’s real name and profile, Bjprn Jiskoot, Jr., in the IMDB database. They are all FAILED actors who have IMDB profiles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZUQZiWF8FA

Little matter of no ambulances, no visible wounds on those
‘injured’ who were later interviewed, photographs of the ER staff lined up BEFOREHAND with guerneys and waiting, but NONE with patients on arrival, etc.

Craig’s list ad posted four days beforehand for 75 Class D unarmed security guards needed IMMEDIATELY for an event and to be paid in cash:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDJzgRYWeeY


64 posted on 06/22/2016 8:02:11 AM PDT by SGNA
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To: YeahBuddy

BS, it makes a HUGE difference when cops go in and shoot anything that moves.

We are constantly told they are the only ones that should have guns. They have the latest and greatest weaponry (including night vision equipment, btw) but they aren’t as well trained as Barney Fife.

The Texas Biker shootout was primarily a shooting gallery for the cops, and started by one of their undercover guys. Was this the same deal? The shooter was known to the FBI and may have been working with them in some kind of sting, according to FBI releases.


65 posted on 06/22/2016 8:04:12 AM PDT by wrench
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

You also saw that Omar bought $9,000 worth of jewelry 2 days before the attack, and sold his home to his BIL for $100? Only your theory, plus Obama’s Islamic State enabling policies, explain why the entire family wasn’t immediately placed under 24 hr surveillance—at a minimum.


66 posted on 06/22/2016 8:05:24 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: SGNA

Interesting.


67 posted on 06/22/2016 8:54:25 AM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Enterprise
"...but Cornwell’s account raises questions about whether gunfire was actually exchanged, why first responders were told not to pursue Mateen into the bathroom..."

See, right there's the whole problem. Mateen was probably "feeling like a woman" that day and headed to the womens rest room. Caught the first responders and figured that they meant to force him into the men's room.

And after 0 promised he could hang out in whatever restroom he "felt" safe in.

I can see now why there's so much confusion.

68 posted on 06/22/2016 9:17:36 AM PDT by skimbell
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To: Fantasywriter

It would be interesting to know when those texts happened. (Before 5:00 am?)


69 posted on 06/22/2016 9:26:44 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

A very BIG “oh s#it moment.”

I’ll be Mateen’s wife is never seen again. Gone in the wind, or fed to the gators.


70 posted on 06/22/2016 9:30:29 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: TADSLOS

“Selective editing to fit the liberal meme. “

I believe so too, yet they put it within ‘single quotes’ as if it was the LEO’s statement.


71 posted on 06/22/2016 9:39:05 AM PDT by rhoda_penmark
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To: sportutegrl

As close as I can make out, the son died shortly after 2:51am.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/13/hes-coming-im-gonna-die-sons-text-to-mother-reveals-orlando-shooting-terror


72 posted on 06/22/2016 9:46:42 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: abb; Protect the Bill of Rights; wrench
if it can be shown LEO’s killed any hostages, here come the lawsuits.

Lots of them.

Any hostages? Certainly if there were a lot of “friendly fire" casualties - especially deaths - I would agree.

OTOH if the defendant(s) in such suits can show good-faith efforts to stop a slaughter when people were being shot by the dozen, they should be hard to convict. Doing nothing was not an option. The standard, “first do no harm” simply cannot apply in such a crisis.


73 posted on 06/22/2016 10:07:45 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: freeandfreezing

I was utterly mistaken about Mateen not killing during the interval when he was calling the crisis line. Apparently he did the bulk of his shooting just before 3am. See post 72.


74 posted on 06/22/2016 10:19:06 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: wastoute
IIRC he shot the guard as he went in, the guard may have been the first victim.

Source? I have not heard of any police officers shot that night.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/pulse-orlando-nightclub-shooting/os-orlando-shooting-call-transcripts-20160620-story.html
"According to the FBI timeline, Mateen opened fire at 2:02 a.m., and Officer Adam Gruler, who was moonlighting at the club, exchanged gunfire with him from the parking lot. Gruler then retreated and called for backup... Those backup officers arrived at 2:08 a.m. and went into the club and fired at Mateen, the FBI timeline shows...

It's not clear when that gun battle ended, but Mina said there were no more shots fired by or at the gunman until about 5:15 a.m...."

75 posted on 06/22/2016 10:27:24 AM PDT by iowamark (I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
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To: Red Steel; Travis McGee; metmom
On a movie set, they need to recycle or circulate the extras back and forth over the area of the shoot to pretend that there is more activity on the location than is actually occurring. Also they need to get the same extras back to the original starting point to then repeat the activity of moving away from it again.

The RT crew just happened to catch the extras carrying the mannequin / EMT prop dummy back to the original starting point before they would carry the same dummy back away from it. Thus video footage would thus always show activity without ambulances pulling up to the 'crime scene' which would have betrayed that it all was a hoax.

They had to use a light EMT dummy / mannequin because it had to fit the meme that there were no stretchers but the six extras in this crew, as well as the others, would be carrying it back and forth repeatedly for the duration of the filming / 'performance'. Notice the only person with a smudge on him was the lead idiot in the hat, the others carrying the mannequin and the mannequin itself are spotless i.e no blood in the least.

In the video below they accomplished the same activity at Sandy Hook by recycling the extras out the bay doors of the firehouse and then had them walk around to the rear to re-enter it and thus come out again and again. Notice the dweeb in the yellow T-shirt below. He is too obvious and in other videos it concentrates on the female assistant director coming out to tell him to put some reality into it and when he still does not get it, she walks him around back, puts a dark shirt on him, sends him back out, and he still waddles back and forth as a duck. Gene Rosen is also visible in this pacing back and forth at the corner of the firehouse practicing his lines, at the location where the "green screen' was later set up for the interviews.

Sandy Hook Hoax ~ Walking In Circles Around Sandy Hook Firehouse

76 posted on 06/22/2016 10:36:08 AM PDT by SGNA
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To: Enterprise; All

I’ve been harping on the Obama—Orlando Police Chief John Mina—SWAT —friendly fire question all along.

Officer Brandon Cornwell, age 25 (soon to be fired, or deceased) seems to be unwittingly answering the questions I was raising several days ago.
Did the Obama administration plan a false flag execution, and is it unravelling?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3441048/posts?page=69#69


77 posted on 06/22/2016 12:08:13 PM PDT by mumblypeg (Make America Sane Again.)
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To: wrench

When did the cops go in and shoot anything that moves? You are again jumping to conclusions.

You also mean to tell me the rank and file officers are telling you only they should have guns, or is it the Police Chiefs who are strictly a political puppet for a Democrat mayor that are telling you that?

Do you believe the first responding officers were equipped with NV goggles?

Wait until the facts come out. This is the same crap we heard about Fat boy Brown, Freddie Gray, Zimmerman etc.

Being a member of Free Republic, I know that you (and others who blame the Police) are smarter than the liberal idiots who always jump to conclusions, and are ALWAYS proved wrong after the investigation was complete.

I read (im not going to look it up, google it if you would like), that the terrorist stated he had a bomb(s) on him and located in his car outside the building. This was told to the the Police.

If they stormed in and he detonated those bombs he claimed, then what would we be saying? The Police needed to try out their new toys and rushed in foolishly. They have no training?

Nothing in a situation like this is easy or cut and dried.

Lets put the blame where it belongs, on the a-hole terrorist.


78 posted on 06/22/2016 3:50:21 PM PDT by YeahBuddy
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To: Enterprise

Not that it matters...

“I got my weapon.” “I located my weapon.”

” I retrieved my weapon .”

I could go on...

This is my weapon, this is my gun. This one is for killing, this one is for fun.

5.56mm


79 posted on 06/22/2016 3:57:14 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Enterprise
...broke through a large glass window and entered the club...

Say what?!

Why not use the double doors just to the left of the window?

80 posted on 06/22/2016 4:24:48 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamiin Franklin)
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