Love the Federalist. Great title.
These cops did everything right, but at the same time they knew one or more of them might be killed or injured. But they knew they and their fellow officers would stop the shooter no matter what. Duty before self.
The videos were awesome. No hesitation...enter, search and dispatch the scum.
My son in law has 25+ years LEO in a major metro area - uniformed, plain clothes, undercover, investigator and POST academy, and he also trains businesses on active shooters.
He gave the MNPD 1st responders an A+.
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Kudos to the two cops who shot the shooter This post is very narrowly intended to recognize the bravery of the two cops who went into a confined space where they knew they would face the designed-to-cut-humans-in-half-and-reduce-their-organs-to-a-slurry spew of a weapon wielded by someone with nothing to lose and intent on killing them.
Notice how quickly this video was released in full, from the time the LEO’s arrived until the time they took down the killer.
The Uvalde shooting’s video release took some time, and media lawsuits if I recall correctly, before it was released to the public. Uvalde officials were hoping the issue would go away or something else would take over the news cycle, or that courts would rule the families’ privacy prevented its release.
These Tennessee LEO’s had no reason to try to hide their actions. The cops worked methodically, efficiently, and quickly, so had no reason to try to hide their actions. Therefore, after a review by their legal advisor to make sure no person’s private information would be revealed, it was released within 24 hours or so after the incident.
Per some reports, the timeline from arrival to ‘solution’ was 5 minutes.
It was a total of 15 minutes from dispatch to ‘solution’.