{"id":9473,"date":"2016-06-14T14:42:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T18:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=9473"},"modified":"2016-06-14T14:42:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T18:42:56","slug":"orlando-massacre-police-response-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/14\/orlando-massacre-police-response-debacle\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Massacre Police Response Debacle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/jpb-quote-on-38-special-from-az-quotes-576046c5bee33.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9474 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/jpb-quote-on-38-special-from-az-quotes-576046c5bee33.jpg\" alt=\"jpb quote on 38 special from az quotes 576046c5bee33\" width=\"465\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/jpb-quote-on-38-special-from-az-quotes-576046c5bee33.jpg 465w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/jpb-quote-on-38-special-from-az-quotes-576046c5bee33-150x116.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/a><span id=\"fbPhotoSnowliftCaption\" class=\"fbPhotosPhotoCaption\" tabindex=\"0\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\"><span class=\"hasCaption\">Police apparently took 3 hours to finally confront the Orlando shooter. How many people bled to death in the meantime? Hopefully we get the facts on the police delays ASAP. In the meantime, here&#8217;s a line from a Wall Street Journal piece I wrote in 1998. Playing around with quote software &#8211; not sure this is working yet.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some tweets from the last few days &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/742088806967414784<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FBI chief sez FBI agents &quot;done well&quot; in Orlando mass murderer case. What is FBI definition of &quot;done badly&quot;? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3OpUJoPupL\">https:\/\/t.co\/3OpUJoPupL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/742446795192709121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Orlando?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Orlando<\/a> How many victims need to bleed to death before police can stop invoking &quot;hostage standoff&quot; to justify delaying confronting killer?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/742322134526119937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Orlando?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Orlando<\/a> &quot;Police waited 3 hours to access the situation, get armored vehicles on to the scene and make sure they had enough personnel.&quot; !!!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/742088806967414784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 12, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanielLMcAdams?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DanielLMcAdams<\/a> I hope we get speedy disclosure on the how Orlando police responded<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/742099004876595200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 12, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police apparently took 3 hours to finally confront the Orlando shooter. How many people bled to death in the meantime? Hopefully we get the facts on the police delays ASAP. In the meantime, here&#8217;s a line from a Wall Street Journal piece I wrote in 1998. Playing around with quote software &#8211; not sure this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[865,863,862,57,595,864],"class_list":["post-9473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-38-special","tag-mateen","tag-orlando-massacre","tag-police","tag-self-defense","tag-self-reliance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Orlando Massacre Police Response Debacle? - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Police delayed confronting the Orlando killer for 3 hours. 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