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Navy Yard: Swat team 'stood down' at mass shooting scene

hypocritexposer

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Meanwhile in another part of town, they'd bust the door down of the wrong house, shoot the dog and then wound the old man, sitting in his lazyboy, watching Murder She Wrote

One of the first teams of heavily armed police to respond to Monday's shooting in Washington DC was ordered to stand down by superiors, the BBC can reveal.

A tactical response team of the Capitol Police, a force that guards the US Capitol complex, was told to leave the scene by a supervisor instead of aiding municipal officers.

The Capitol Police department has launched a review into the matter.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/24153252#FBM286850

"I don't think it's a far stretch to say that some lives may have been saved if we were allowed to intervene," a Capitol Police source familiar with the incident told the BBC.
 

Steve

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Multiple sources in the Capitol Police department have told the BBC that its highly trained and heavily armed four-man Containment and Emergency Response Team (Cert) was near the Navy Yard when the initial report of an active shooter came in about 8:20 local time.

The officers, wearing full tactical gear and armed with HK-416 assault weapons, arrived outside Building 197 a few minutes later, an official with knowledge of the incident told the BBC.

yet the actual shootout with police took over a half hour..

the store's attorney Michael Slocum said. Alexis then bought a shotgun and 24 shells, according to Slocum.

and then killed 12 people before he was slain by police in a shootout that lasted more than a half-hour.

For more than 30 agonizing minutes, Aaron Alexis stalked his human prey with a 12-gauge shotgun, eluding several attempts by law enforcement officers to gun him down, police said Tuesday.

Lanier said law enforcement officials engaged in "multiple" gunbattles with Alexis.

"I don't have the exact time of the final engagement," Lanier said. She said the shooting lasted "more than a half-hour from start to finish," but less than an hour. Reporters near the scene heard the last gunshots before 10 a.m.

as usual there is something odd about how this was handled.. and by the time a "report" is whitewashed we will never know what really happened nor will anyone get demoted for making the wrong call..
According to a Capitol Police source, an officer with the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), Washington DC's main municipal force, told the Capitol Cert officers they were the only police on the site equipped with long guns and requested their help stopping the gunman.
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Odds are it might have had a different outcome”

Jim Konczos Capitol Police Officer

When the Capitol Police team radioed their superiors, they were told by a watch commander to leave the scene, the BBC was told.

The gunman, Aaron Alexis, was reported killed after 09:00.

Several Capitol Police sources who spoke to the BBC asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal.

Capitol Police Officer Jim Konczos, who leads the officers' union, said the Cert police train for what are known as active shooter situations and are expert marksmen.

"Odds are it might have had a different outcome," he said of Monday's shooting and the decision to order the Cert unit to stand down. "It probably could have been neutralised."

Capitol Hill Police chief Kim Dine has ordered "a comprehensive, independent review of the facts surrounding the Capitol Police's response to the Navy Yard shootings".

"It's a very serious allegation and inference to indicate that we were on scene and could have helped and were told to leave," he said. "It crushes me if that's the case."
 

iwannabeacowboy

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I feel bad that I never comprehended that disarmament of the public was the answer until now. From this incident, it is obvious that the police will always be there to protect those that have been disarmed and cannot protect themselves.
 

Steve

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iwannabeacowboy said:
I feel bad that I never comprehended that disarmament of the public was the answer until now. From this incident, it is obvious that the police will always be there to protect those that have been disarmed and cannot protect themselves.

they might be there.. but being allowed to take action may not be given...

or worse,.. they may panic and do nothing...
 
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