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Tom Conley, head of a private security firm in Des Moines and counterterrorism instructor for the U.S. Department of Defense, wrote an article in Security magazine blistering Mandalay Bay for not stopping the attack.
I was confused how it was that the killer could have been allowed to keep shooting seemingly unhampered for 11 to 12 minutes. My first thought was, Where the heck was hotel security while all this shooting was happening and while people were dying?
AFTER his article appeared, MGM RELEASED ITS STATEMENT indicating their security people were there. Conley said the hotels first mistake was sending an unarmed security guard to check the unsecured fire door. Conley said Campos was a contractor from a yellow T-shirt concert event-type security company, not a full-time Mandalay Bay employee. He said there also didnt appear to be any way for Mandalay Bay to communicate its situation to the concert security across the street.
Conley said MGM should have had an armed response team ready to roll in such a situation, that they would have rushed to the 32nd floor and carefully moved toward the shooters suite. If the person starts firing through the door, Conley said, you fire back and the problems eliminated.
**For them [MGM] to be somehow taken off guard or surprised by this is really criminal.** IMO THIS IS WHAT ALL THE COVER UP COMES DOWN TO, MGM DOES NOT WANT TO APPEAR CRIMINALLY NEGLIGENT.
He said if Campos had been armed, he could have immediately returned fire. He only has to keep the guy busy until backup arrives. If they had trained professionals, where the hell were they on the 32nd floor when Campos was shot? The police respond and they dont know what floor to go to?
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Tom Conley, head of a private security firm in Des Moines and counterterrorism instructor for the U.S. Department of Defense, wrote an article in Security magazine blistering Mandalay Bay for not stopping the attack.
I was confused how it was that the killer could have been allowed to keep shooting seemingly unhampered for 11 to 12 minutes. My first thought was, Where the heck was hotel security while all this shooting was happening and while people were dying?
AFTER his article appeared, MGM RELEASED ITS STATEMENT indicating their security people were there. Conley said the hotels first mistake was sending an unarmed security guard to check the unsecured fire door. Conley said Campos was a contractor from a yellow T-shirt concert event-type security company, not a full-time Mandalay Bay employee. He said there also didnt appear to be any way for Mandalay Bay to communicate its situation to the concert security across the street.
Conley said MGM should have had an armed response team ready to roll in such a situation, that they would have rushed to the 32nd floor and carefully moved toward the shooters suite. If the person starts firing through the door, Conley said, you fire back and the problems eliminated.
**For them [MGM] to be somehow taken off guard or surprised by this is really criminal.** IMO THIS IS WHAT ALL THE COVER UP COMES DOWN TO, MGM DOES NOT WANT TO APPEAR CRIMINALLY NEGLIGENT.
He said if Campos had been armed, he could have immediately returned fire. He only has to keep the guy busy until backup arrives. If they had trained professionals, where the hell were they on the 32nd floor when Campos was shot? The police respond and they dont know what floor to go to?