49 Pulses

Charlie Minn's documentaries are pretty good up until the half way point. That's when he starts to blame police instead of the person that committed the crime. It's apparently his formula for documentaries.

1 - show details of tragedy 2 - talk about the victims (bravo by the way) 3 - start blaming and questioning police.

I think for the next horrific event we get Charlie Minn strapped up to go in immediately because he apparently knows best how to deal with these psychopaths.

I thought this was a wonderful documentary until people started blaming the police officers. Instead of blaming the psychopath with the weapon the survivors and their families turned on the officers and blamed them . They expected the officers to rush in and take down the gunman as soon as they arrived at the scene.

If the officers rush into an insecure hostage or active shooter scene, and get shot instantly.....then there is absolutely nobody left to help you. The scene was chaos. I don't know what could have been differently, but the constant blaming the first responders irritates me.

I watched a documentary on the Reelz channel about the shooter and the relationship with his ex wife. She was terribly abused, both physically and emotionally. Sadly, this nut died without justice being served.

Decent documentary other than the Director's usual police bashing. It seems like all Michael Chinn does is make documentaries just to interview and bash the police. I understand, yes the police could always do better, but nothing he says makes the conversation with the police more productive. He never offers alternative solutions or ideas about what they could do better... If Chinn is so damn brave then why doesn't he put on a kevlar vest and bum rush the shooter himself? He doesn't understand that the shooter literally told the police that he had vests made of bombs that he was going to put on four of the hostages. He also said he put bombs in cars a long the street. He made it sound like he was going to blow himself up and the rest of the hostages like the terrorist lunatic that he was.

What angers me is that the USA has hundreds of mass shootings every year for the past few decades, yet much of the time the police are never prepared. SWAT should be on call 24 hours, 7 days a week. They should have their assault rifles, full body armor, bomb detecting robots, dogs, etc. Everything ready at the drop of a dime. This is what America requires by letting citizens own automatic weapons... As long as fully automatic weapons are legal, there will always be massive mass shootings like this.

Anyhow because the shooter was inside the bathroom with the rest of the hostages the only plan in my opinion would be to use a robot with one of those 6 foot tall armor shields attached so that the police could bum rush through the bathroom door. Another plan that they could have done hours earlier is blow out a small hole on outside wall like what they did, throw in multiple flash bangs as a distraction then bum rush through the bathroom door immediately and kill him before he had a chance to "detonate" any bombs that he claimed to have. They could have done that from the beginning instead of waiting 3 hours. Maybe some of the injured inside the bathroom could have survived...

Parading as a documentary is Charlie Minn's yet another way to point fingers at the police. He loves to exploit the victims and their families in effort to promote his films. What a shame.

The threat of multiple bombs being at the scene was clearly a factor in how police MUST respond.

Bottom line, it is the gun man who was responsible for all the deaths.

It was heartbreaking to hear the young lady say that she told rescuers to take her friend instead of taking her for treatment. Emotional trauma always plays a role in what one may remember as reality.

God bless all the victims, their families, rescue workers and police, for this incident has truly changed their lives forever. And God help Charlie Minn to stop making money off of other people's tragedies.

Z3

The doc is overall pretty good. The Showtime "Active Shooter" series did a much better job though...If you are going to watch just one, watch that one. I did like how the director focused on the people who lost their lives, instead of showing and naming the killer. I think more docs need to take that approach instead of making the killer famous for what they have done.