Account of how Officer Munley engaged Hasan

[RamboLiberal]

Police officers began racing toward the scene. Among them was Munley, 34 years old and trained in tactics developed in the wake of the Columbine massacre. She arrived at 1:27 p.m., about four minutes after the first 911 call, as Hasan was fleeing the building, according to official accounts.

Munley rounded a corner and fired twice at Hasan. He fired back and charged at her, according to the accounts. Munley dropped to the ground in a protective position and continued firing.

At some point, Hasan began to fumble with his gun. "He's reloading," someone screamed, according to an officer on the scene.

In the exchange, Munley was struck in both thighs and one wrist. Hasan was shot four times, including at least once in the torso.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/06/AR2009110601931.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=AR

Lady sounds like one heckuva good cop.

Fort Hood heroine saved Wrightsville Beach detective's life
by Brian Freskos
Friday, November 6, 2009

WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, NC ... When Wrightsville Beach police detective Shaun Appler pulled over a suspected drunk driver in 2000, he couldn’t have foreseen the dangerous situation that was about to ensue.

Thankfully Appler’s partner, Kimberly Munley, was there to save his life.

While Appler was talking to the driver of the vehicle, a third man approached the detective and interjected himself into the discussion. Appler said he asked the third man to leave, when he didn’t, the detective tried to arrest him.

A struggle ensued, and the two men eventually rolled down a hill. When they came to a stop, the man was straddling Appler, reaching for the handgun holstered on the detective’s belt.

Suddenly, Munley appeared, leaped onto the man’s back, yanked him off of Appler and forced him into handcuffs.

http://www.luminanews.com/article.asp?aid=5314&iid=191&sud=30

[bbinacan]

1. Do you have a point? n/t

[RamboLiberal]

2. I don't have to explain diddly to you

Do you have a point? Some posters down in this forum like to look at tactics.

[FlyingSquirrel]

3. woof

[bbinacan]

4. I didn't see your edit.

I love Wrightsville Beach.

[RamboLiberal]

6. Pet peeve of mine when DU'ers ? other posters motives for posting

Sorry.

[bbinacan]

7. No problem. n/t

[RamboLiberal]

9. I tell you one of the reasons I posted was I'm female

and I also being 57 lived through the time when women were not considered for police officers, or any other law enforcement agency. And if they were police officers they were wearing a skirt and carrying their gun in their handbag. Heck I remember the talk shows of the day where wives of police officers were calling in saying they didn't want their husband sharing a patrol car with a female officer.

So as tragic as this situation was, it is nice to see that a woman was very brave & capable of doing her job as an officer.

[bbinacan]

12. She did one helluva

a job. :toast:

[AtheistCrusader]

13. Equal? Hell, she could probably kick my ass without breaking a sweat

[mrbarber]

11. Maybe some people are interested in how this hero cop stopped this madman?

What's your point?

[RamboLiberal]

5. Kimberly Munley ended Fort Hood rampage using Virginia Tech lessons

Fort Hood, Texas - Lessons learned from the horrific Virginia Tech shootings in 2007 are credited with averting an even bigger massacre at Fort Hood, Texas, Thursday afternoon when police officer Kimberly Munley confronted the gunman without waiting for backup and took him down with four shots.

Reviews in the aftermath of the shootings at Virginia Tech, where 32 died, found that first responders' decision to be careful and wait for backup probably cost lives as that gunman moved unchecked from classroom to classroom as law enforcement massed outside.

Those findings had found their way to Fort Hood's Special Reaction Team, which had practiced an entirely new protocol for at least a year before Thursday afternoon's rampage here, in which 13 were killed and at least 28 wounded.

"The lesson from Virginia Tech was, don't wait for backup but move to the target and eliminate the shooter," says Chuck Medley, chief of Fort Hood's emergency services. "It requires courage and it requires skill."

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1107/p02s03-usmi.html

I've thought since seeing the police waiting so long outside Columbine before moving in while students & a teacher lay wounded that police moving in to engage the active shooter was the better tactic in most cases. Certainly I don't want to see police killed or wounded but I think when they pin on the badge they are paid to take the risk to save civilians.

[Hoopla Phil]

10. Good report there on that. Thanks

[RamboLiberal]

8. Sergeant Munley is a firearms instructor & expert

Sergeant Munley, who is 34, is an expert in firearms and a member of the SWAT team for the civilian police department on the base, officials said.

She received two wounds in each thigh and one to her right wrist. The base’s fire chief applied torniquets to stop her bleeding, and she was taken to a hospital that the officials did not identify, where she was reported in stable condition on Tuesday.

Sergeant Munley joined the police force on the sprawling base in January 2008 after a career in the Army. Mr. Medley described her as highly trained, and said she had received specific training in a tactic called active shooter protocol, which was intended for the kind of situation she encountered on Thursday.

Mr. Medley, the emergency services director, said that Sergeant Munley was an advanced firearms instructor for the civilian police force, which is employed by the Department of the Army to assist the military police on the grounds of the vast fort, where 150,000 soldiers and their families live and work.

According to the Associated Press, Sergeant Munley worked as an officer in the Wrightville Beach Police Department in North Carolina from 2000 to February 2002. She received three letters of commendation or recognition for her performance there.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/us/07police.html?_r=1&hp

[tabatha]

14. Excellent performance under stress.

Not a blink or consideration of her own safety.

[Piwi2009]

15. Let's hear it for girls with guns!

[friendly_iconoclast]

16. +10 to Officer Munley. Definitely ovaries of tungsten...

n/t