The police did not fail at all! They were professional and did an excellent job, waiting it out for 17 hours for the right time to go in.RicoADF said:Sounds like NSW police failed by waiting until the gunman had killed someone. They should have assaulted the place earlier when they could do it under their terms in a planned out raid rather than this response to what the gunman was doing.
2 are dead with a few injured, non life threatening injuries from what I hear. Gunman is also dead which is good to hear, scum got what he deserved.
With the threat of bombs around the city there was no way in hell they were going in until that threat was removed. Not to mention there were so many hostages inside, imagine the potential casualties if they did go in! They had plenty of time to plan for an emergency like someone inside getting shot and they put that plan into action and successfully got their man.