Police enter church in stand off with man with a gun

In the late afternoon of May 17th, 2007, a sucidal man with a gun isolated himself in his car after attracting the attention of the Portland Police. The city's Central Command Unit was set up, and officers with assault weapons entered a local church where they moved into a firing position in case anything went wrong. I spoke with a frustrated Pastor of the Church who was upset that he didn't have a say in the matter. Later I captured footage a new robot that the Police used to take the man a telephone.

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[Morris1962]

The safety of the public, the officers, and the suicidal man take priority here. The pastor should have the maturity to realize that, rather than think only of himself and his ideas of church sovereignty. I though Norsky Lutherans had more sense than that.