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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was at the game. I thought Nats park did pretty well with making announcements to stay in the stadium etc.

But geeze talk about a rise in crime. [/quote]

For people who hit the deck - quite literally, it seemed an eternity.  People were screaming and running in all directions - don't know what stadium you were at.....[/quote]

I was on the third base side. I got up for a snack, was walking up the ramp to go back to my seats, heard the shots that sounded outside, saw a few people looking over the side and went over to investigate and saw someone on the ground. Saw a Nats worker there too on a walkie talkie reporting & talking to someone & I said are you calling for help? And he pointed down & said cops are already there and I saw cop car & then went back to my seats to tell my friends what happened. I was surprised to see everyone ducking for cover when I got there. I told my friends - it is outside and I didn’t think we should leave. [b]It was scary because they were all thinking it was inside though and there was a second round of shots then that sounded loud & like it could have been inside.[/b]
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This is exactly why after you secure the perimeter, the immediate next thing you should do is instruct the tens of thousands (!!!!!) of fans who were at their mercy.  But they didn't.  Instead, they wooshed the players to a safe place, then as an afterthought, minutes later, (which seem like an eternity when you are on the ground, literally ducking for cover, after sections on either side of you are screaming and fleeing, BTW) - saying to stay inside.  But, hey PR comes first.

WTAF?[/quote]

That sounds horrifying.  No excuse![/quote]

The news said 5 mins after the shots an announcement was made to stay in the park. I don’t think that’s a crazy amount of time to figure out what is happening, what to do, and make an announcement. But I know I had extra info that it was outside so was able to stay a bit more calm inside and that it probably felt like an eternity. [/quote]

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