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 Garland 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

Garland 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
there 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 exited
the dark-colored Sedan.

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

and started shooting 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.

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