Police on Shooting at Anti-Islam Event | The New York Times

Joe Harn, a Garland Police Department spokesman, discussed the shooting on Sunday outside an event in Texas that featured cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

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Starting with the event that happened yesterday

actually started several months ago

when Garlin ISD contacted us about
this event being booked there.

There were security concerns with them, and so from
that we began to work with the school district officials

Garlin officials and police department officials
to set up a security plan for this event.

The security concerns that they have was because of
the top event and the speaker that they were

having and issues that have been with those folks before.

The event was going very smoothly, and
about 10 minutes to 7, a dark-colored vehicle

pulled up to the west-entrance parking lot.

There was a police car blocking that
entrance - a police officer in it

along with a GISD security officer.
When that car pulled up and stopped,

those officers began to exit their
vehicle and two men existed the

the dark-colored sedan.

Both of them had assault rifles,
came around the back of the car and

started shooting and at the police car.
The police officer in that car began

returning fire and struck both men,
taking them down. He did what he was

trained to do, and under the fire that he
was put under, he did a very good job.

And probably saved lives.

We think their strategy was to get to
the event center, into the event center

and they were not able to get past
that outer perimeter that we had

set up, which was
part of that security.