San Bernardino County Sheriff reflects on Dorner standoff. A learning event.
San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon on Tuesday gave his first interview since the deadly Feb. 12 standoff between disgruntled former Los Angeles police officer Chris Dorner and deputies in the San Bernardino Mountains.
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"This type of an event is tragic, and no law enforcement leader ever wants to be in that position - where you lose an officer and one gets seriously injured in a gun battle," McMahon said. "It's tragic.
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The SWAT team first shot cold tear gas into the cabin, which didn't draw out Dorner. So the pyrotechnic tear gas, which emits a higher concentration of gas, was used, which ignited the cabin, McMahon said, Shortly thereafter, a single distinct gunshot, unlike the volley of gunshots that were fired from the cabin during the gun battle, was heard from inside the cabin, followed by silence.
McMahon said everyone in law enforcement should study and learn from the event.
"As I thought about this, if it was not our department involved in this event, we would be watching this event on TV, looking at what they were doing and asking ourselves, 'If this occurred in our county, would we be prepared to deal with it, and how would we deal with it?'" McMahon said. "So this is a learning event for law enforcement across the country. Clearly, everybody can learn from an event like this. "
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