From: DeadlineLive
Navy
Yard shooting: SWAT team ordered to stand down, leave scene –No answers
given –’[They] haven’t even been given the courtesy of a debrief.’ 19
Sep 2013 Members of an armed police squad who the BBC has learned were
ordered not to respond to Monday’s mass shooting in Washington DC have
yet to be contacted by the authorities. The Capitol Police tactical
response team was told by a supervisor to leave the scene instead of
aiding municipal officers, sources told the BBC. Officials on a special
investigative panel convened on Wednesday have yet to approach team
members. Gunman Aaron Alexis [allegedly] killed 12 people. “No-one’s
talked to these officers since this happened,” a Capitol Police source
close to the incident told the BBC.False flag unraveling at lightening speed: Radios ‘failed’ during Navy Yard attack, emergency responders say –Initially, officers found that their radios were working. But as they ventured deeper into the building where the shooting took place, their equipment stopped functioning. 19 Sep 2013 Radios for federal firefighters and police officers ‘failed’ during Monday’s mass shooting at Washington’s Navy Yard, according to union representatives for first responders. Union officials said police and firefighters resorted to using their cellphones and radios from D.C.’s emergency responders to communicate with each other during the attack. Anthony Meely, chairman of the Fraternal Order of Police Naval District Washington (NDW) Labor Committee, said police officers who were first on the scene at the Navy Yard had trouble communicating with others in the force via their radios.
US missed ‘red flags’ about gunman 19 Sep 2013 US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel acknowledged authorities missed some “red flags” that might have averted a deadly shooting rampage at the Washington Navy Yard, vowing to close any gaps in security. Hagel made the admission in the wake of Monday’s massacre that left 13 dead, including the shooter, as details emerged of the troubled former sailor turned contractor who gunned down civilian workers at a naval installation in the heart of Washington. “Obviously, when you go back in hindsight and look at all this, there were some red flags, of course there were,” Hagel told a news conference. “And should we have picked them up? Why didn’t we? How could we have? All those questions need to be answered.”
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