Dfirsty,
Unless it was the invisible man
….Anyone between the muzzle flash and the shooter would have been silhouetted. I know what I saw and was sure of what I was shooting at. So were the other four officers who shot as well. So let me ask you. What would you have done to get the bad guy to stop shooting so you could advance to recover your downed officer? Would you have just moved into the hail of bullets? Or maybe ran away? What is your protocol on your SWAT team since you clearly have a better solution? My team’s tactics and techniques are the end result of decades of successful resolution to thousands of time sensitive critical incidents. However, we are always searching for a “better way”. As I am here to learn, if you have something productive to add I am all ears. If not…
Like all officer involved shootings this one was critiqued ad nauseam by the agency and found to be in compliance with state law and agency policy.
edited to add: Dfirsty, feel free to contact me offline since you feel I am unqualified to hold the position I currently and humbly do.
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