'They responded, immediately went inside, knew the danger that was going on. Shots were being fired at the police cars. That did not deter them. They went anyway inside.'
John Cohen, a former Homeland Security official, veteran police training expert and ABC News contributor, reviewed and scrutinized body camera footage available from both incidents and found that the officers in Nashville did "exactly what we hope those who put on the badge will do when they confront a dangerous situation like an active shooter."
“As a law enforcement professional, I watched The Covenant School video with an intense sense of pride," Cohen said. "I know how hard those officers’ hearts are pumping and what that fear feels like. But this is why you sign up for the job. And they went in there and did it." Metropolitan Nashville Police Department Officers Rex Engelbert, left, and Michael Collazo who fired on the mass shooting suspect in The Covenenant School incident March 27, 2023.Cohen laid out several key points that demonstrated how the officers successfully responded. They communicated with school officials and immediately tried to assess the situation -- learning the number of suspects and determining where people were sheltered in place, he said.
, including 19 students. After initially praising first responders for their efforts, state and local leaders eventually acknowledged cascading missteps that compounded the outcome of the attack. "We failed," Col. Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, told ABC News. "And I say 'failed' and I said 'we' ... because collectively we did."
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