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Question - What good does it do to have an officer with a gun who is shot dead? Can the dead officer help the kids? Probably not, right? So it's probably good for an officer to try to figure out WTF is going on so he can best assist.

Engaging a suspect firing at others would give you a huge tactical advantage. The officer knew in what general direction the shooting was coming from, while the suspect has no idea what direction the police are. Furthermore, no one is asking to actually engage him but he waited outside and had absolutely no idea where the suspect was.

They had an armed policemen on site and he literally did nothing, the city police responded sooner. So what good does it do to have an officer on site?

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Posted by shel311

McKinney, Texas

Member since Aug 2004

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Posted on 2/26/18 at 1:35 pm to baldona

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Engaging a suspect firing at others would give you a huge tactical advantage

Of course

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The officer knew in what general direction the shooting was coming from,

Maybe he did, but I don't think we know this as fact. Do you know as a FACT that he even knew how many shooters there were? Like was he 100% sure there was only 1 shooter and he knew where he was?

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They had an armed policemen on site and he literally did nothing, the city police responded sooner. So what good does it do to have an officer on site?

Again, do we know that 100%? Or maybe he looked but at that point the shooter was gone?

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Posted by windshieldman

Member since Nov 2012

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Posted on 2/26/18 at 1:37 pm to baldona

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Engaging a suspect firing at others would give you a huge tactical advantage. The officer knew in what general direction the shooting was coming from, while the suspect has no idea what direction the police are. Furthermore, no one is asking to actually engage him but he waited outside and had absolutely no idea where the suspect was. They had an armed policemen on site and he literally did nothing, the city police responded sooner. So what good does it do to have an officer on site?

I think the thing is, new evidence is supposedly there saying all this is wrong. Basically, most of the people unless they were right there by the shooter had no idea where shooter was. The officer had a difficult time locating him. There is radio traffic supposedly of him trying to figure out where shooter is and someone telling him shooter is outside.

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