“Commend your department,” Trump said to Biehl at the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Chicago.
Biehl said the officers acted “decisively, swiftly ending a mass shooting.”
“They represent the highest of ideals and performance of our profession,” Biehl said.
The officers who fired their weapons to stop the shooter were Sgt. William C. Knight, Vincent Carter, David Denlinger, Ryan Nabel, Brian Rolfes and Jeremy Campbell.
When the President of the United States spontaneously calls you to the podium. Good job Chief @DaytonPolice. pic.twitter.com/0is5Mn54fG
— Chief Brooks (@ChiefBrooksNPD) October 28, 2019
In less than half a minute, a gunman killed nine people and injured 27 in the Oregon District before being killed by Dayton police.
President Trump said the gunman “did a lot of destruction” in 29 seconds, but went on to say it could have been “the worst in history.”
“I’ll never forget the scene,” Trump said. “They showed four of them going down the street, there were six all together, but it was on tape and those guns, boom boom boom they were out there perfect everything, there was no fear, there was no anything, they reacted.”
“They were incredible,” Trump said.
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Those killed in the Dayton shooting were Megan Betts, 22,; Monica Brickhouse, 39; Nicholas Cumer, 25; Derrick Fudge, 57; Thomas McNichols, 25; Lois Oglesby, 27; Saheed Saleh, 38; Logan Turner, 30; and Beatrice Warren Curtis, 36.
Six Dayton police officers fatally shot the gunman less than a minute after he opened fire, and before he entered the bar.
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