{"id":84810,"date":"2023-03-29T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84810"},"modified":"2023-03-28T15:36:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T20:36:46","slug":"by-the-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84810","title":{"rendered":"By The Book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Unlike Uvalde and Parkland, the cops at the Covenant School shooting in Nashville did what cops (and citizens, for that matter)<em> are supposed to do <\/em>in the face of a spree killer:  meet them with lethal force as quickly and effectively as possible.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a general rule, spree killers spend a long time, sometimes years, planning their attacks, and frequently carry them out in a fugue state, almost a fantastical reverie.   And resistance, especially with lethal force,  <em>even if it doesn&#8217;t kill or incapacitate them<\/em>, frequently\/usually makes them break off the attack, usually giving up or killing themselves as their fantasy comes to an abrupt end. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nashville cops appear to have done it right:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MNPD Officers Rex Engelbert, a 4-year veteran, and Michael Collazo, a 9-year veteran, were part of a team of  first responders to the Covenant campus Mon morning. They fired on the active shooter, who was killed. This is their body camera footage. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/17qsZM6bNp\">https:\/\/t.co\/17qsZM6bNp<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g4b0nMTFRD\">pic.twitter.com\/g4b0nMTFRD<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Metro Nashville PD (@MNPDNashville) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MNPDNashville\/status\/1640715069158989824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the body cam footage.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Warning:  <em>Extremely graphic<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Covenant School Active Shooter Case--MNPD Body Camera Footage\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ue2tZa4hT0c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And these cops, I will thank for their service.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike Uvalde and Parkland, the cops at the Covenant School shooting in Nashville did what cops (and citizens, for that matter) are supposed to do in the face of a spree killer: meet them with lethal force as quickly and effectively as possible. As a general rule, spree killers spend a long time, sometimes years, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[361],"class_list":["post-84810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-uncategorized","tag-spree-killings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84811,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84810\/revisions\/84811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}