Navy Yard: Swat team ordered to 'stand down' at mass shooting scene

[Bad Boy Dazza]

About 8:15 local time (12:15 GMT), Alexis entered Building 197, headquarters for Naval Sea Systems Command, which builds and maintains ships and submarines for the Navy, and opened fire.

Armed with a shotgun and a pistol he took from a guard he had shot, he sprayed bullets down a hallway and fired from a balcony down on to workers in an atrium.

He fired on police officers who eventually stormed the building, and was later killed in the shootout.

Multiple sources in the Capitol Police department have told the BBC that its highly trained and heavily armed four-man Containment and Emergency Response Team (Cert) was near the Navy Yard when the initial report of an active shooter came in about 8:20 local time.

The officers, wearing full tactical gear and armed with HK-416 assault weapons, arrived outside Building 197 a few minutes later, an official with knowledge of the incident told the BBC.
'A different outcome'

According to a Capitol Police source, an officer with the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), Washington DC's main municipal force, told the Capitol Cert officers they were the only police on the site equipped with long guns and requested their help stopping the gunman.


Jim Konczos Capitol Police Officer

When the Capitol Police team radioed their superiors, they were told by a watch commander to leave the scene, the BBC was told.

Several Capitol Police sources who spoke to the BBC asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal.

Capitol Police Officer Jim Konczos, who leads the officers' union, said the Cert police train for what are known as active shooter situations and are expert marksmen.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/24153252

[BIG AL MCKECHNIE]

One of the first teams of heavily armed police to respond to Monday's shooting in Washington DC was ordered to stand down by superiors, the BBC can reveal.

A tactical response team of the Capitol Police, a force that guards the US Capitol complex, was told to leave the scene by a supervisor instead of aiding municipal officers.

Fucks sake, was this a manipulation which needed plenty of deaths for a political agenda?
No wonder the powers that be didn't want the gunman stopped until he had killed at least a dozen people.

[Cleanest Natural]

nowadays it SO obvious .. like Boston marathon bombings and so forth .. but most americans refuse to believe "conspiracies" 

[Bad Boy Dazza]

nowadays it SO obvious .. like Boston marathon bombings and so forth .. but most americans refuse to believe "conspiracies" 

Also of interest, Americans are being forced to go to "foreign" press to get the truth released, such as the BBC in this case, because the mainstream US press will not do it.

There is really no freedom of the press in the USA anymore.  These American news agencies are either government controlled, or scared shitless of the government,

[Parker]

Also of interest, Americans are being forced to go to "foreign" press to get the truth released, such as the BBC in this case, because the mainstream US press will not do it.

There is really no freedom of the press in the USA anymore.  These American news agencies are either government controlled, or scared shitless of the government,

The BBC has always shown things which the US news hasn't. Only Frontline in the US goes into details. Their coverage and use of footage from the BBC about Deposed Liberian President Samuel Doe is legendary. And in some of the film, where Doe is seen with his ears cut off and people mocking him with a walkiw talkie, those people were mentioning that the CIA had helped them. Now whether or not this is true, who knows.

[beakdoctor]

I worked in D.C. for an assignment. D.C. has an overwhelming number of Law enforcement agencies, I think something like 70 different agencies all operating within a very small area. The coordination effort and strategic command would be a clusterfuck if all of them converged on an incident at once with different radio chanels, different chain of command etc etc... There are protocols in place for who handles what first.

[Kwon_2]

Odd

[Wiggs]

Now your eyes are being opened gentlemen.

[avxo]

Crappy inter-agency coordination and turf/jurisdiction wars. We should be surprised why?

[NYSTATEOFMIND]

Now your eyes are being opened gentlemen.

my eyes have been open wiggles...problem is everything i read ( some credible/some horseshit) is mind blowing and if a 1/3 of any of it is true...the titanic is slowly sinking

[missile]

HAHAHA RETARDED AMERICANS!!!   

[calfzilla]

You would think with all these mass shootings police departments would have better trained officers and a plan of attack.