Sky news tonight - trying to blame the police for the Bondi attack

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I couldn’t quite believe what I was watching. A 15 minute segment that forensically went through video footage of the attack and essentially said the police didn’t get there fast enough and didn’t fire enough shots at the gunmen. I’ve never seen anything like that before, and I’ve witnessed plenty of terror attack coverage in my lifetime. What the hell was that about?!

Strange because they’ve not done it for the brown or MIT shootings.

There does seem to have been an online agenda to blame the police for not acting appropriately eg the cropped photo circulating of the young female officer with her hands in the air being described as her surrendering. When you see the full photos and I think there's video too, it's very clear that she is directing members of the public to keep running away from the bridge which is immediately behind her. She was in a car which was fired upon shattering the windscreen but she still got out and ran towards the incident, anything but surrendering, the police chief (or similar, not sure of his proper title) has had to come out and defend her and the other police, none of the survivors have made any negative comments about police reaction, and I think a lot of the online stuff is coming from outside Australia

The Brown shooting was only solved today. Because of a Reddit post. They found the suspect dead. It was announced only hours ago.

MIT, I have not been following. Is it this one you mean ?

Investigation maps, timeline: Brown Univ. shooting, MIT prof. killed (wcvb.com)

It’s not the media’s job to be investigator, judge and jury though.

in fact if the police did make any mistakes, a programme like this means anyone that should be held to account probably won’t be, because they can’t get a fair trial as everyone watching the programme is unlikely to be unbiased.

the uk has a process where post incident investigations take place after major incidents. I am sure Aus is the same. It’s fairly brutal, each officer is held alone, no one is allowed to talk, interviews and accounts are taken. It can take hours, and no one can go home and decompress until it’s complete.

Agree and with @tothelefttotheleft

Was the report you saw the same 9 minute 12 second one I posted a link to above ?

It is a pretty standard early report on a mass shooting/ terror attack timeline breakdown. If anything is a bit different with this one from many others, it's because of the massive amount of footage out there. But in this report, it was video already out there, and same sat photos of the area.

If it's the same one I saw, it was a brief overview. The details will follow at the inquests/ public inquiry. And the trial of the surviving terrorist.

But they haven’t posted minute by minute dissections.

Considering one 22 year old policeman has now lost sight in one eye, this is particularly in poor taste, even for Sky News.

That's because nobody knew anything till today, literarily a few hours ago.

But I just had a look, here is and abc news report of the timeline from 18 hours ago, with as much as was known at the time.

It always needs to be remembered, not everything, especially US shootings, makes international news. The Bondi attack is major international news, so pretty much every network will be on it.

I have only been following the Brown shooting casually, and I think it was only still on international because it was not solved. That made it unusual.

The same as the Australian sovereign citizen who ambushed cops last month. That made big news, but they have not got him yet. Suspected suicide in the bush. But it is still being covered locally.

Timeline of the Brown University mass shooting and MIT professor slaying - ABC News (go.com)

I don't know about news, but big disasters including terrorist attacks are generally followed by inquiries to assess not only the cause of the incident but the response thereafter so that lessons can be learned for the future e.g. Manchester Arena, Grenfell etc.