you can train people to do that . you can build the best. um you know, muscle memory around those actions, but at the end of the day, it comes down to courage and focus, and that s what you see on that video. i mean, nobody knows how they re going to respond when shots are actually fired. no matter how much training you have what you know, it s like until you get punched in the face. you don t know what it s really like. officer galloway. i mean, just the tone of his voice. the tenor of it. it is very directed. it is. there s an intensity to it, which, um, you know. it s not the frantic, you know. voice we ve heard of some police officers on in other incidents, or you know other people. in other instances, it is very calm and much more common is the right word. but it is focused and controlled. and by the way, you know, officer galloway is a training officer, this young officer on his fourth tour tour of duty. um you know, day i think it s for right. it s his.
the rounds coming to him from? he s got to see that target before he fires. he doesn t know it s possible. maybe there s other innocent people in that lobby. maybe the shooter has taken a hostage in between the time they ve gotten the call and when they arrive, so he s got to be precise. he s got to be relentless in his focus on that threat, even when, as you point out, he knows that his not just as fellow officer but his trainee, he s responsible for that for officer wilson, his his tactics and his well being, it s almost impossible to imagine the stress that officer galloway is under at that time, and he must just, um you know, he must feel absolutely terrible to some degree right now, about what happened to officer wilts, but he doesn t let that get in the way of his duty runs to the sound of the gun. quite literally. he gets thrown off his feet. momentarily he recovers, takes a position of cover and then goes right back at the threat. um that is how it s supposed to be done. and
Footage shows Officer Corey Galloway moving to cover and directing other officers as they arrive to prepare to rescue an officer who was shot and killed.