LogFAQs > #965384365

It does seem to be a bunch of poorly laid out excuses. First it was that they thought the security guard was handling it, although why you would leave a lone security guard to fend off the attack by himself makes no sense, but it was found out later that there was no security guard fending off the attack, so they straight up lied on that one. Then it was that we don't have body armor so it would be too dangerous to fight off the assailant, but I don't know why thier lack of preparation should be taken out on victims and it is not like police haven't dealt with not having proper body armor for the job before. Then it was that we are not trained for these situations and need specialized equipment and personnel to do the job, so I guess you have to be specially trained to shoot someone as a police officer now a days.

I guess the only thing I can side on the police officers with was that a lockdown was in effect at the school shortly after the first couple shootings and the situation did not appear to be escalating, so they could appear to wait a bit for Swat to arrive, but yeah the optics of the whole situation was terrible.