I agree with the poor wording, “retreat” makes it sound he ran away.
Another issue is the Secret Service were probably on their own radio channels and not with the local police. When there’s interagency things like this, there’s usually a command center where they have the leaders of each group staged so they can relay things between the teams, but not direct communication between Deputy Bobby who sees the gunman and Agent Spike on the stage. Plenty of time to get off shots before the warning is heard by the people who need to hear it.
I agree that you can get one hand free while on a ladder, but I’m still going to duck first if someone is pointing a gun at me
Fully agreed, I’m just saying a cop who passed the annual fitness exam should be able to duck down a step and radio an alert pretty damn quick.
I’m still betting $10 that the shooter turned and threw lead without really aiming since he knew he was compromised.
I just think the journalists are wording this extremely poorly
I agree with the poor wording, “retreat” makes it sound he ran away.
Another issue is the Secret Service were probably on their own radio channels and not with the local police. When there’s interagency things like this, there’s usually a command center where they have the leaders of each group staged so they can relay things between the teams, but not direct communication between Deputy Bobby who sees the gunman and Agent Spike on the stage. Plenty of time to get off shots before the warning is heard by the people who need to hear it.
That would be super dumb. There should be some operator that relevant info is passed to either channel.