I didn’t post this until now because I didn’t want to come off as yet another internet tought guy deprived of his rightful place in the op center by an accident of birth, but this event did immediately remind me of the 1993 Paris school hostage situation.
That one ended when the hostage-taker finally fell asleep, and the cops tiptoed in and tripple-tapped him in the head. Which makes me wonder if “negotiations had deteriorated” is Alabaman for “he finally fell asleep.”
In the 1993 case, a teacher had been allowed to go inside to check on the kids, and snuck in a camera. Also, besides the shooter cop, other cops came in and quietly flipped the kids’ matresses over them so they wouldn’t see the shooting.
That one ended when the hostage-taker finally fell asleep, and the cops tiptoed in and tripple-tapped him in the head. Which makes me wonder if “negotiations had deteriorated” is Alabaman for “he finally fell asleep.”
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No, the Alabamian term for that is “hunting accident”, unless inflicted by a spouse in which case it’s “gun cleaning mishap”.
Cops always want to do that if they can, it’s their job – and, they want it known that they always want to do that if they can; otherwise, anyone they have cornered might see no way of getting out of the corner alive, and he might decide to go down in a firefight and take a few cops with him.
The five year old already got to watch that once, when Dykes shot his school bus driver in front of him.
If shooting the guy reduced the danger to the child by .00001%, then it was the right call. Any hostage rescue plan should have recovering the hostages alive as the sole priority. The condition of the hostage takers is meaningless.