Sheriff Joe Lombardo tells crowd ‘it’s important for us to forget that and move on’

Clark County Sheriff, Joe Lombardo, head of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department once again displayed his ignorance on Saturday.

After months of lies, misleading, convoluted and contradictory statements concerning the investigation of the worst mass shooting in American history, Lombardo like the Eveready bunny, just keeps going and going with his inept remarks.

Lombardo made the following comments on Saturday while addressing a crowd:

“The frustrating thing for me as the head of the law enforcement is the keyboard bandits the guys who sit at their couches at their home and Monday morning quarterback everything you do and that are smarter than you. The pressure that we are put under to do the right thing and I believe we did the right thing and I am not hiding anything from anybody. You know what I know. The reason why I say that it is just as important for you to be comfortable living here and have an understanding to prevent another event from taking place, for you to know what exactly happened. So, you know what exactly happened so far. I anticipate a press conference here in about a week to give you more information and to provide the media with more information associated with that event. But there will not be a keystone or an important piece associated with Mr. Paddock and why he did what he did, so it’s important for us to forget that and move on and be resilient.”    

First, off Lombardo, it was not an event. It was a massacre. 58 people are dead and over 550 were wounded and or injured in Las Vegas on October 1 during the worst mass shooting in American history. Keep towing that politically correct line.

You said you are not hiding anything Lombardo. Well, then why haven’t you told us why your SWAT Team couldn’t make it to that stairwell after an hour and five minutes after the last shots were fired, to back up their lone team member.   I will just forget your lies about the full SWAT Team making entry.

Why did your department have to borrow armored vehicles during the worst mass shooting in American history? Are your officers ill-equipped to protect the public at large? Or is it that you want to remain politically correct at the expense to the safety of your officers and the public?

Remember Lombardo it was police officers in your department who compromised the investigation by leaking crime scene photos to the press and then allowed a photographer to enter the 32nd-floor hallway which was also a crime scene. Then you had the gall during that November 2 interview with KLAS-TV when you said that you would probably never be able to find out who leaked those photos. Was that because you wanted to protect one of your command staff officers who leaked the first two photographs?

Then you had the nerve to have your Internal Affairs Unit contact me to give up my police sources (which I didn’t) because I had found out that the Homicide Division was pulled off Paddock’s suite and that investigation was turned over to the Force Investigation Team, at that time headed by the wife of your second in command, Undersheriff Kevin McMahill.

Let us not forget all the other lies and incompetent remarks you have made including those on that KLAS-TV interview back in November.

Why is it that the local hometown media here keeps giving you a pass on your absurd remarks and lies? Maybe they don’t want their jobs threatened as has been reported you have done to reporters in the past and have their press credentials pulled.

Lombardo, you are really transparent.

That’s why you are fighting to keep all records and evidence concerning the investigation of the massacre out of the public’s hands. And let us not forget hiring an outside law firm to protect the LVMPD by fighting to prevent a former officer from testifying in court because his testimony might implicate corrupt cops.

Yes, Lombardo under your leadership you have done a remarkable job with the LVMPD.

We wouldn’t have to sit back and Monday morning quarterback as you said if you hadn’t disgraced your uniform and badge by lying to the public and contradicting yourself, which by the way reflected on your entire department.

I am sure the dead, injured and their families will appreciate what you said, “so it’s important for us to forget that and move on.”  They will never forget what happened. As for being resilient as you said, the survivors and the families of those who were murdered will never recover emotionally from that.

You continue to be a disgrace to not only your office but to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

I feel I need to apologize for the sheriff’s disgraceful remark to the families and friends of the 58 souls that perished.

Doug Poppa

Doug authored over 135 articles on the October 1, 2017, Las Vegas Massacre, more than any other single journalist in the country. He investigates stories on corruption, law enforcement, and crime. Doug is a US Army Military Police Veteran, former police officer, deputy sheriff, and criminal investigator. Doug spent 20 years in the hotel/casino industry as an investigator and then as Director of Security and Surveillance. He also spent a short time with the US Dept. of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration. In 1986 Doug was awarded Criminal Investigator of the Year by the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office in Virginia for his undercover work in narcotics enforcement. In 1991 and 1992 Doug testified in court that a sheriff’s office official and the county prosecutor withheld exculpatory evidence during the 1988 trial of a man accused of the attempted murder of his wife. Doug’s testimony led to a judge’s decision to order the release of the man from prison in 1992 and awarded him a new trial, in which he was later acquitted. As a result of Doug breaking the police “blue wall of silence,” he was fired by the county sheriff. His story was featured on Inside Edition, Current Affair and CBS News’ “Street Stories with Ed Bradley”. In 1992 after losing his job, at the request of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Doug infiltrated a group of men who were plotting the kidnapping of a Dupont fortune heir and his wife. Doug has been a guest on national television and radio programs speaking on the stories he now writes as an investigative journalist. Catch Doug’s Podcast: @dougpoppa1