Las Vegas cop 'terrified with fear' as gunman murdered dozens, body camera footage shows

[txradioguy]

An armed, veteran police officer stood idle for several minutes last October as the Las Vegas gunman slaughtered dozens of concertgoers from a perch one floor up, and now that cop's actions -- and inaction -- are being reviewed by the Metropolitan Police Department.
The investigation into Cordell Hendrex, and the rest of the city’s police department, comes as Las Vegas prepares to release its ninth batch of footage and records related to the shooting, which left 58 dead and hundreds injured.

“Every officer’s actions that night are being evaluated,” police spokesperson Carla Alston told the Las Vegas Review-Journal last week. “One of the things Sheriff [Joseph] Lombardo has said from the beginning is that this is an ongoing investigation. Part of that investigation is the evaluation of the performance, actions and conduct of every officer and civilian employee involved in the incident.”

The actions of Hendrex -- which have drawn comparisons to those of Scot Peterson, a former school resource officer labeled a “coward” by President Trump after Peterson failed to act during February’s Parkland high school shooting -- have come into the spotlight following record releases in May and June.

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The video footage, captured by the body camera of Las Vegas Officer Elif Varsin, then shows the group standing in the hallway for about two minutes before taking refuge in a stairwell heading up to the 32nd floor for around 15 minutes, at which point the clip ends.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/07/03/las-vegas-cop-froze-with-fear-as-gunman-murdered-dozens-body-camera-footage-shows.html

[goatprairie]

There are the usual voices saying that cops with handguns shouldn't try to take on nuts with automatic rifles. But that's exactly what cops in L.A. did during the first moments of the notorious shootout about twenty-one years ago.
It wasn't until some time after the shooting started that some cops even had semi-automatic rifles which they got from a gun store.
Meanwhile, a number of cops, armed only with their handguns,  took on the perps who not only had automatic weapons, but also armor piercing bulltets,  and body armor.  A number of cops got shot, and it was a miracle none of them were killed.