When it’s a shooting and not a hostage situation? There’s a difference between walking down the halls shooting everyone and locking themselves in a room with hostages.
We know for a fact that at least one police officer believed it to be a hostage situation. And in that case you don’t want the beat cop trying to kick down the door rambo style and take out the gunman when there’s a full SWAT team on site
Let’s play out a scenario. A bunch of beat cops decide they’re done waiting and try to breech with absolutely no experience or training. They fumble the door and the hostage taker starts blasting little kids and blindly firing through the door killing most of the kids and at least some of the cops.
It’s like expecting an account to know how to do construction estimating
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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '22
When it’s a shooting and not a hostage situation? There’s a difference between walking down the halls shooting everyone and locking themselves in a room with hostages.
We know for a fact that at least one police officer believed it to be a hostage situation. And in that case you don’t want the beat cop trying to kick down the door rambo style and take out the gunman when there’s a full SWAT team on site