If he was hiding in the bathroom with hostages, they should have been able to clear the rest of the club of wounded.
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BUT THEY DIDN’T BECAUSE THEY HAD TO PROTECT NEXT YEARS SWAT BUDGET
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And if the shooting had stopped, it would have been foolish to blindly storm his hideout(?) possibly causing him to shoot more people, or detonate some unknown explosive device.
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That’s guesswork... I’ve lived in Orange county for 40 years ... The SWAT boys were marking their territory and couldn’t let others finish the job... besides it would look really bad when it’s time to justify the SWAT budget. SWAT has body armor and they (cumulatively across the country) get paid $$$BILLIONS$$$ in overtime and special pay to step into harms way... So instead they left him in a closed room with a large number of hostages for 3 hours .. HOW MANY DID HE KILL IN THOSE 3 HOURS... I myself am not “Rambo” but if those steroid pumped tweekers in black want to get paid then occasionally they have to do their job and take a chance on getting shot at.
He wasn’t “hiding” in the bathroom. He was ranting to 911 about ISIS and threatening to blow stuff up. He should have been engaged immediately and taken down.