Always wait to maintain the right ... or never:
The transcripts confirm that 911 dispatchers and the Nova Scotia RCMP knew at least 12 hours before the public was informed that a well-armed gunman named Gabriel Wortman was driving a lookalike RCMP vehicle, complete with identical decals and lights. The 51-year-old denturist, who was also dressed as a police officer, would go on to kill 22 people in his rampage – the worst in Canadian history. ...
Ms. Blair, who identified the shooter as Mr. Wortman, was the first to tell a 911 operator that her neighbour was driving a fake police car, and she wasn’t the last. Her eldest son told another 911 operator about 15 minutes later that his neighbour was driving a vehicle that looked “just like … a police car.”
“The children indicated the perpetrator would blend in ‘because he has a cop car,’” the transcripts read. ...
The joint provincial-federal public inquiry, which must submit a final report in November with recommendations on how to prevent similar tragedies, is focused on what police knew and when because it’s one of the central questions of the case. The transcripts show the RCMP withheld for 12 crucial hours information that the gunman was driving a real-looking police vehicle.
When they finally informed the public the next morning, at 10:17 a.m., the RCMP used Twitter, and not the province’s emergency alert system which sends messages directly to people’s phones. Mr. Wortman killed another six people after leaving Portapique before the information about the police car was revealed.
The inquiry is an expensive waste of time as no action will be taken.
But it looks like someone is working, so ...
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