roaming the hallways of some of these apartment complexes. and that s why setting this hard perimeter at the time they did was so vitally important. and so that is the question right now. do they have him located in an area and they re talking to him? i know they re talking to his mother at this point. they re trying to get information fromler exactly about his qungs, what may have been going on in his life. there are several dozen other people who were inside that building who were terrified about exactly what was going on. they were calling 911. and then you have the massive police response from all the agencies in the metro atlanta area to try to make sure this block midtown area was sort of cordoned off and shut down. you have all that happening and at the same time you have these s.w.a.t. units setting up that soft perimeter as well so if they find out the location of this man they can move in if they have to. not sure if he has more ammunition. did he come prepared for this? so m
that usually comes here during the lunch period was also not in this area. so officers are obviously concerned about the foot traffic. high foot traffic in this area during the day that they wanted to get out of this your. now, when we were on that block right there we could see s.w.a.t. units setting up in several different locations so they could get closer to the building. but obviously with the several different units they re pulling them back and forth. no sort of active moment toward that building. i ve been talking to my sources and got that picture early on of that man in the hoodie. i ve also learned some new information in the last 20 minutes or so where i was told that the medical appointment was for the man and not his mother. i ve also been told he is a military, former military service member and they were worried about his mental health before this happened. and so that was the reason why he was being brought to this location, to be talked to and evaluated according to m
what has changed in your view in terms of training, both for responding to these active shooter situations and specifically on a massive campus like this, and even not just the training for officers, but what happens afterwards in terms of the lasting trauma that people in this country have and specifically law enforcement has after continually responding to mass shooting events? well, the training changed dramatically in the aftermath of columbine. at that point in time the, you know, train of thought was that law enforcement officers, first responders should set up a perimeter and wait for more specialized units or s.w.a.t. units, your cert units to respond there and make entry into the structure. since then it s changed. when i first came on the police department in 2001 we had five-man response teams, then it was brought down to four, then three and ultimately the first