Colorado mass shootings have formed today s police response to them: Officers don t wait By Elise Schmelzer
Amid the eulogies and ceremonies, the presiding priest at Boulder police Officer Eric Talley s funeral for a moment directed his comments directly at the hundreds of officers who gathered in the Lafayette church to mourn the officer killed while responding to a report of an active shooter. This service would have been for any one of you if you had been first on the scene, Rev. Daniel Nolan said at the funeral. That is a risk every day you put on your badges.
When Talley and two other officers charged into the Boulder King Soopers, they were following modern police strategy on responding to reports of an active shooter. They pulled up to the store, grabbed equipment from their cars and, about a minute after arriving, ran into the building to immediately confront the suspect. They didn t pause to wait for back up or a more heavily-armed SWAT team. They w
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