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'It was as bad as you can imagine, times ten': Emotional cops reveal how they ran towards...
• By DANIEL ROTH and CHRIS SPARGOTwo police officers have emotionally recalled the terrifying moment they entered the Florida school where a gunman was on the loose while a number of sheriff deputies cowered outside.
Coral Springs Police Department officers Chris Crawford and Sgt. Jeff Heinrich recounted their heroics during a local news conference on Friday, describing the 'surreal' events of that fateful Valentine's Day.
The incident 'was bad as you can imagine — times 10,' Crawford said in the aftermath of the campus shooting. 'I have a 2-year-old. I don't want to send him to school.'
A Marine veteran, Crawford recounted the 'awful' task of having to treat children suffering from gunshot wounds, adding that he wished he 'could have saved all of them.'
Crawford said that he stuffed 'combat gauze,' a medical dressing with a clotting agent, into the wounds of a 14-year-old boy who was shot in the back, and treated a young girl for a shrapnel injury.
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1 Comments in Response to 'It was as bad as you can imagine, times ten': Emotional cops reveal how they ran towards...
I am not in favor of cops, necessarily, at all. But consider. There were many, many cops that worked to save the kids, while these four stood outside. The big BUT is, these were county cops. County cops are generally required to stay our of the way in city problems, unless invited by the city to help. In other words, there were plenty of city cops around, and these county guys were not invited or authorized, and standard policy is that they stay out. The decision to break policy is a difficult one for a cop, especially in the face of all those city cops that responded.