Orlando Police Chief: Parkland Shooting Is Definitely a Failure of All the Systems Involved

RUSH EXCERPT:
MINA: "Well, it’s definitely a failure of all the systems involved. You know at the Orlando Police Department, I know, many other law enforcement agencies in Central Florida and across the nation there are protocols in place for when we receive social media threats, for when we get some of these red flags and I would tell that, you know, we don’t stop working until that threat is mitigated until we get, you know, identify the person who made the threat, go talk to them, talk to their parents, and go really hands on with them. And in many cases either arrest or commit that person for an involuntary mental examination. The issue and some of the problems with that is, even if we commit someone under the Baker Act for mental evaluation, they can, you know, get their evaluation, probably, be released in less than seventy-two hours and still go— enable to buy a firearm. So that loophole needs to be closed because many of our law enforcement throughout the country have had many success stories as far as mitigating some of these threats and— and seeing the red flags and working it to the very end, putting the person in custody or getting them evaluated and then, you know— and then that person still being able to purchase a firearm."