It looks like I was right. He had been losing lots of money gambling and that’s the only motive that’s been discovered.
So… yeah.
He wasn’t an Antifa hardcase? Color me shocked.
Is he a terrorist yet?
No, he’s white, so just mentally ill.
Well, the main “witness” is a prison informant, so take that for what it’s worth. The lady who (says she) heard him in a restaurant does appear to help a bit. Still a bit sketchy, and it would seem that if this were true, there’d be an internet record/footprints somewhere.
LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas police confirmed Tuesday that the department fired a veteran officer who froze in the hallway of a Las Vegas Strip hotel during a 2017 mass shooting as a gunman on the floor above opened fire on a country music festival.
Police body camera video released by the department shows Hendrex, along with a rookie officer and three hotel security officers, waiting in the hallway of the 31st floor in the Mandalay Bay casino-resort for about five minutes before moving to a stairwell leading to the 32nd floor, where the gunman was raining bullets onto the crowd below.
Police union president Steve Grammas told The Associated Press in an email that Hendrex had been fired because of his actions during the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting.
Who hesitated more? The cop or the department? Took two years for this to happen?
Shoulda opened fire on a random family and their dog. Could have gotten three weeks of paid vacation and a promotion.
Once the cop was told the shooter was white he lost his hard on and wasn’t up for killing anyone any more.
I didn’t read that but I have some sympathy for people who don’t deal heroically with mass shootings. Seems like quite a big ask.
Well the man’s a hero, so I guess we should start speaking of him with more respect. Got to love how it says several times that Paddock would prefer that his role not be known. Humble guy, this hero.
This is where I’m at as well.
I don’t. You put on the uniform. You get paid. You know the risks.
Plus there is we want police culture to be less ‘shoot first, ask questions later’.
I agree with this in theory, but nobody knows how they will react to this sort of situation until they’re in it. I can understand someone freezing up when faced with a shootout.
That makes them unsuitable to be a police officer, so they should definitely be fired. But I don’t think it makes them a villain.
Okay. And he’s fired. Good to go, right? Except this unsuitable person was a cop for two more years.
This is machismo.
It’s also the job. I don’t think he’s a terrible human being or anything, just not fit for the job. I don’t know why it took them two years to let the guy go.
Isn’t the reason US police forces have SWAT teams because these situations are beyond average cops?
(I don’t know this was an average cop or not.)