the situation is tense. mark mcgann, a clayton county detective and s.w.a.t team member responds to the 911 call, along with several dozen other cops. i could see his face and my impression was that he was very calm and that s not unusual for someone who has decided to commit suicide. often a state of calmness comes into play because they have made their decision. but if he wants to commit suicide, why does he stage such a spectacle in a public place? we already knew from what he had told the 911 dispatcher that he wanted the police to shoot him. almost all police officers receive training in that phenomenon, of suicide by cop. the officers negotiate, but gittens wants police to shoot him. fortunately in my career in 34 years in law enforcement, i never had to shoot someone and that was really the very first day in my entire career i was faced with that possibility. my adrenaline was up simply from that perspective. gittens isn t giving up.
gittens isn t giving up. and police need to end the standoff before anyone gets hurt. mcgann and the s.w.a.t. team snipers come up with a bold plan. apparently the man laid the gun down once and picked it up, again. the plan as the chief formulated it was the negotiator would talk the man into putting the gun down again, at that point we would try to take a shot on the weapon. if the plan fails, it could provoke git tens to shoot himself or fire at police. detective mcgann, armed with his mcmillan .308 caliber rifle braces himself on the back end of a pickup truck about 65 yards away. his finger is on the trigger and his eye is on the scope. you look through the scope and your field of vision is very narrowed. i sighted on the gentleman initially although we were there to take a shot on the weapon, the possibility always existed that we would have to take a shot on the individual, depending on what he did.
mark mcgann, a clayton county detective and s.w.a.t team member responds to the 911 call, along with several dozen other cops. i could see his face and my impression was that he was very calm and that s not unusual for someone who has decided to commit suicide. often a state of calmness comes into play because they have made their decision. but if gittens wants to commit suicide, why does he stage such a spectacle in a public place? we already knew from what he had told the 911 dispatcher that he wanted the police to shoot him. almost all police officers receive training in that phenomenon, of suicide by cop. the officers negotiate, but gittens wants police to shoot him. fortunately in my career in 34 years in law enforcement, i never had to shoot someone and that was really the very first day in my entire career i was faced with that possibility. my adrenaline was up simply from that perspective. gittens isn t giving up. and police need to end the
mark mcgann, a clayton county detective and s.w.a.t team member responds to the 911 call, along with several dozen other cops. i could see his face and my impression was that he was very calm and that s not unusual for someone who has decided to commit suicide. often a state of calmness comes into play because they have made their decision. but if he wants to commit suicide, why does he stage such a spectacle in a public place? we already knew from what he had told the 911 dispatcher that he wanted the police to shoot him. almost all police officers receive training in that phenomenon, of suicide by cop. the officers negotiate, but gittens wants police to shoot him. fortunately in my career in 34 years in law enforcement, i never had to shoot someone and that was really the very first day in my entire career i was faced with that possibility. my adrenaline was up simply from that perspective. gittens isn t giving up. and police need to end the
mark mcgann, a clayton county detective and s.w.a.t team member responds to the 911 call, along with several dozen other cops. i could see his face and my impression was that he was very calm and that s not unusual for someone who has decided to commit suicide. often a state of calmness comes into play because they have made their decision. but if he wants to commit suicide, why does he stage such a spectacle in a public place? we already knew from what he had told the 911 dispatcher that he wanted the police to shoot him. almost all police officers receive training in that phenomenon, of suicide by cop. the officers negotiate, but gittens wants police to shoot him. fortunately in my career in 34 years in law enforcement, i never had to shoot someone and that was really the very first day in my entire career i was faced with that possibility. my adrenaline was up simply from that perspective. gittens isn t giving up. and police need to end the standoff before anyone gets