It seemed to me that Kilt was stating facts about the incident. Other than that, the officer disgraced himself, his department, and other officers. In this incident there is no excuse for “setting up a perimeter” while someone was actively killing students. What he needed to do was to give an update of his location while moving to engage the shooter so that other officers, who were watching a 20 minute delay, could know where the activity was occurring in real time.
How many officers responded to this call? Have any idea. 5, 10, 25, 50?
Listing to you folks it sounds as if you think they only should have sent out one officer to end this.
Folks, please ease off.
Exactly true !
Facts, not conjecture !
Thank you, Enterprise, for your insight, and analysis of the situation.
“It seemed to me that Kilt was stating facts about the incident. Other than that, the officer disgraced himself, his department, and other officers. In this incident there is no excuse for “setting up a perimeter” while someone was actively killing students. What he needed to do was to give an update of his location while moving to engage the shooter so that other officers, who were watching a 20 minute delay, could know where the activity was occurring in real time.”
Bingo! And, while DoughtyOne says that suicide was not a job requirement for the resources officer, taking risk WAS. This resources officer had a professional and moral requirement —and the Sheriff’s office a training requirement— to have pre-thought plans for situations like this, and to have years ago made a decision to ENGAGE NOW in a rage-shooting situation, and to head toward the gun fire. This officer had tremendous advantages on his side in a situation like this if he’d been trained well and pre-planned to exercise those advantages.