Originally Posted by Janey

i would think that after all that time from when the exchange had begun, the police had the area secured. There should not have been any innocent civilians at risk. given the potential (and final) outcome, all the police had to do was to wait him out. Nope, I think they were overzealous. All they had to do was to put him under seige. At some point he would have run out of bullets, and it had already been a few hours.