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89141 t1_jed3d1g wrote

It’s so strange that these two LEO’s are being put forward as heroes when there was easily 8 that stormed the school.

Stormed is probably the wrong word when a person from inside the school told LEO that the shooter was on the second level. The cops went room to room, on the first level, until something got them focused on the second level.

I’m proud of LEO but I don’t understand why they didn’t go to the second floor immediately, or why these two gentlemen are different from the others.

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SideburnSundays t1_jed4ruc wrote

No assurance that there’s only one shooter, that the shooter actually was on the second level, shooter could have moved, etc.

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89141 t1_jed6yx9 wrote

Right, and probably how they are trained. Go room to room when in doubt where the shooter(s) are. I hate when people arm-chair these situations yet I’m doing it now. Either way, LEO rocked.

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Any-Carry7137 t1_jedqssz wrote

Absolutely training. Trained to "clear" a building. If they went past rooms w/o looking and the shooter was hiding in one he/she could either escape or open fire on them from behind.

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The_Amazing_Shaggy t1_jed4wr1 wrote

These 2 are the 2 that actually fired their weapons thus taking on the extra burden of killing someone on top of risking their life, but I absolutely agree that every officer that entered the school that day should be commended as well.

What got their attention was the suspect began firing again after a short period of not which was enough information to know right where to go. Until that point it would be unwise to rely on the last known location from someone on the outside as current and still true.

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89141 t1_jed6ma1 wrote

That video of taking her down was insane. Dropped just like from a movie.

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Astropical t1_jeei7mb wrote

Protocol is to sweep the floor systematically as long as they do not hear active gunshots. This is because in the time that the witness saw the shooter on floor 2, they could have doubled back to the first floor. It does nobody any good for officers to beeline to the 2nd floor, and get ambushed from behind from a shooter lying in wait. There is also the potential for a secondary shooter.

I'm a cop, and when we went through active shooter training, this is how we learned. The scenario I went through involved a simulated shooting in a small office building. Same things were involved. We made a 4-stack and started sweeping. At the end of a long hallway we heard shots get fired so we began to bypass rooms and casualties, to rush to the source.

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