Sentence examples for waiting for backup from inspiring English sources

Sheehan lived with mental health issues and allegedly threatened officers with a knife but, rather than waiting for backup, officers forced their way back into her room and shot her several times.

Mr. Wexler and others noted that the change echoes a transformation in police procedures that began after the shooting at Columbine High School in 1999, when some departments began telling officers who arrived first on a scene to act immediately rather than waiting for backup.

Even more astonishing, it turned out that waiting for backup was the national, "professional" protocol, the training all police departments received: their first consideration in this kind of crisis had to be their own safety, not that of the community they were sworn to protect.

One of Ms. Nuñez's friends said it appeared that the two officers on the platform were waiting for backups to arrive.

But as he waited for backup, he was scared.

He bandaged the sergeant's legs while they waited for backup.

Mr. Hun said he would have to wait for backup, in the form of a tow truck.

Fearing a hostage situation, he said, the officers waited for backup, which arrived 30 to 45 minutes later.

If such an officer is unavailable, he said, other officers on the scene should know to call and wait for backup.

The police say Mr. Robinson shot a 32-year-old Penn Hills police officer, Michael Crawshaw, as he waited for backup near a house where gunfire had been reported.

In court documents, Sheehan argues that the officers' second entry unnecessarily escalated a volatile situation and that officers should have waited for backup instead of forcing their way back into her room.