Policing

New Details Emerge About Police Decision to Storm Orlando Club During Massacre

Orlando Police chief John Mina said he made the call to storm the club after Mateen made it clear that he was going to kill his hostages.

"There was a timeline given and we believed that there was imminent loss of life that we needed to prevent," Mina said. "It's a tough decision to make knowing that people's lives will be placed in danger by that, our officers' lives would be placed in danger."

The full sequence of events is also not yet clear, but officials say Mateen first arrived at the club at about 2:00am, and exchanged fire with an off-duty, uniformed Orlando police officer who was working security and was near the entrance to the club.