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Saying they got wrong? well, essentially not enough officers were deployed here to do crowd control. basically, the 140 officers or so were here, specifically in this area, where most of the crowds were built up, they were here to police things like drug use, look out for potential sexual assaults, drug use, look out for potential sexualassaults, but drug use, look out for potential sexual assaults, but none were here to direct crowds. and just behind me is where the vast majority of people, mai...

Interior and Safety Minister Lee Sang-min apologized on Tuesday over last weeks crowd crash, which took the lives of more than 150 people in Itaewon, a popular nightlife district in Seoul. “I deeply apologize to the people as a Cabinet member in a position to be infinitely responsible for the peoples safety,” Lee said at a parliamentary session. “First of all, I pray for those who died. I also offer my deep condolences to the bereaved families … As the father of a son and a daughter, thi...

Screams in the background and this was hours before the actual crush that killed now 1 56 peope after another victim lost their battle and lost their life. you can see what seoul police are capable of here. they have officers out here doing crowd control and closed off the streets. when there is a protest in seoul theyll have barricades that go on for feels like miles. they know how to do crowd control and did not do it in itaewon. they had extra officers out but looking for drunk and disorderly...

Crowd. so these are used in crowd control as a crowd control measure and that after that is when the venezuelans and others returned back to mexico. all of this is under investigation by the office of professional responsibility. and civil rights groups have come out denouncing what has been captured in this footage and saying that theyre appalled by what these images show. now all of this is happening as the biden administration recently expanded a trump era pandemic public health rule known as...

Falling down and being crushed under the weight of bodies, down a slope. that hasnt been confirmed yet but it is one a lot of eyewitnesses are talking about, that could be one explanation, but the big questions that will be at the heart of this investigation will be around the policing, the police say there were 200 officers deployed to the area at the question is was that enough and was enough being done especially to enforce crowd control as opposed to more conventional anti—crime prevention...

People who were stuck down there in the front, an area maybe -- maybe eight-feet wide or so, they were pushed over. they fell to the ground. then what was created, police and paramedics are telling us, was essentially a pile of people where you could only see their faces in many cases. you couldnt see their arms or legs. they couldnt breathe. they couldnt even speak. about ten people high. there are serious questions about how this could have happened. by the time they were pulling these young p...

Beginning. but paramedics describes the situation when they did arrive, that there had been people in the crowd shouting, push, push. and some of the people in the front particularly the young women, most of the people who were killed in their 20s, more than half of them women, they basically were piled up about ten people high where you could only see their faces. you couldnt even see their bodies or their legs because theyve been pushed ford and twisted in different directions. so as this memo...

>> what about the official investigations because clearly, they didnt have any plan, you know, for crowd control or any exit strategy. >> yeah, there are still a lot of questions remaining about what exactly went wrong. i think what is becoming clear now is that there just were not enough police in the area. seoul and korea, theyre really famous for having really robust police presence at protests. they are such a clean operation. there was one on saturday that i actually walked by going from an...

Together in a narrow alley that they were literally crushed. toppling over each other. down a slope. south korea is asking why more police werent there to control the crowds, and the police chaef chief saying today and apologizing that the officers on the scene couldnt detect that there was a surge of people saying the focus was on crime prevention rather than crowd control. halloween has gotten very popular in south korea in the last few years and people are saying the police should have known ...

Seemed to be in the worst condition, people who couldnt speak but in their eyes they were still conscious and desperate to get out of that terrifying situation. but by the time they pulled them out and laid them down literally on the sidewalks here, the sidewalks were essentially rows and rows of people, friends, complete strangers jumping in, frantically trying to give cpr. and it didnt work. most of the people ended up just losing their lives, losing consciousness and never regaining it right ...