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Originally Posted by New Era
He did. That's the point. SWAT didn't respond for over an hour after the first shots were fired, and then about 45 minutes after the last shots were heard from the room. He could have got away clean. I don't know why LVPD has received accolades for their part because their response was brutal.
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Sigh...LVPD received accolades because of their heroism in removing as many citizens as possible from an active shooter, as well as confronting the same active shooter in his stronghold.
Your criticism of SWAT is misguided. I can guarantee you, that minutes after the shooting began, SWAT was activated. In a situation such as that, they would still need to group the team who would likely be roving all over the city if they are a full time team which I'm assuming they are. Then they would quickly gather intel from the hotel/security/general duty police officers to determine what they were dealing with (number of assailants, location, weapons, whether the stronghold is barricaded or not, etc). With that information they then formulate their plan of action. Deploy the team and arrive at the stronghold. They deploy their breachers and use explosive forced entry to gain access to the room. The assaulters enter and find the guy down. All this takes time and quite frankly 45 minutes from beginning of incident to the time they arrive at the room may sound like a long time but given the chaos and unique situation it's really not.