expert anthony roman, ceo and founder of roman and associates. thank you for being here this afternoon. my pleasure. let s talk about this very robust very strong response we saw at the navy yard this morning. obviously a false alarm, thank goodness. what did we learn, what were the take aways for you in terms of law enforcement being prepared to deal with something like this? well, i think what we saw was a coordinated response that results in an immediate and effective command and control structure. that was not the case in the last shooting where the capitol police were in a position to respond and then asked to stand down, and they could have been in a position to save lives at that time. i think this response was much more effective and reflects a reaction and a proper reaction to the investigative report which was somewhat critical of the first response at the navy yard. and anthony, as i go into my second question to you, we want
ep enforcement going on here. we ve seen it time and time again. we ve seen the throwing of bottles, stones rocks. we ve seen law enforcement being pelted with bottles and showing a lot of restraint. shawna handy was asking me a question. tell me about the gang situation. are the gangs trying to get together to go against law enforcement? no, no, they actually want peace. reporter: the gangs actually want peace. yeah. reporter: why is that? i m so reporter: now we have tear gas going down. this is not exactly what you think of as a common american city. what s interesting is that the images are very similar to what we saw in ferguson sean and i would guess, but i don t know that the agitators are the same people but this is way more widespread. shawna just told me the agitators are are more here than