Pulse OPD Officer Gruler- What Happened?

It has been an entire year now and the Orlando Police Department (OPD) has never said how fully armed Omar Mateen got past their fully uniformed “extra duty” police officer Adam Gruler at the Pulse night club.

The OPD apparently likes to pretend that nothing officially happened until they got the call at 2:02 am from their own fully uniformed “extra duty” police officer Adam Gruler calling a signal 43-officer needs help. They would rather not address what happened prior to 2:02 am and how a fully armed Omar Mateen waltzed past their officer or how their officer chased Mateen in to the crowded night club where the carnage ensued. All their timelines begin promptly at 2:02 am in order to ignore the actions of their fully uniformed “extra duty” police officer Adam Gruler.

The OPD even has a 71 page collection of what they term supplemental reports (link), but nothing from their Officer Gruler. We guess because he was extra duty, he does not have to file a report.

However there is a direct quote from the Orlando Chief of Police himself, Police Chief John Mina who said: "The officer engaged in a gun battle with that suspect. The suspect at some point went back inside the club, and more shots were fired. This did turn into a hostage situation." Keep in mind that this was a fully uniformed Orlando Police Officer.

“The suspect at some point went back inside the club” deserves serious investigation but the media is ignoring it. What exactly happened? Was the suspect leaving when the officer engaged him in a gun battle outside the club, and did that cause him to retreat inside the club? If so, how did he get past the officer in the first place? Why one year later are there still no details about what exactly happened and why has the media not asked these questions so that we can protect people and keep this from happening again?

We know that fully uniformed “extra duty” police officer Adam Gruler was working at the Pulse and we found many accounts stating that the shooting began outside the club including this one: The terrorist began shooting outside Pulse at approximately 2:02 AM. Officer Adam Gruler was working security and engaged the terrorist with his handgun, but failed to make any effective hits. Lt. Scott Smith and Sgt. Jeffrey Backhaus, both also SWAT officers, were in the first patrol unit to arrive on-scene. They also failed to make effective hits. The terrorist was then able to enter the club.

What exactly happened and why is the media not asking? Were 3 Orlando Police officers unable to stop a shooter from entering the Pulse nightclub and/or did they cause the shooter to go back inside the club resulting in a hostage situation?

Even US News reports: The (pulse) images include Officer Adam Gruler who was working an off-duty job at Pulse that morning (seen in uniform), firing shots at Mateen in the club's doorway. Gruler then called a signal 43, which means an officer needs help.

We are surrounded by examples of police officers being all to eager to use excessive deadly force. Usually this only results in the killing of a single person in a blaze of gunfire and each time we can rationalize that- thankfully- it was only one person who died because of the overreaction.

But what about situations where that police trigger happy mentality causes a real shooter to retreat back in to a crowded nightclub rather than in to the street, shooting patrons and then taking hostages that he may never have wanted, geometrically increasing the carnage.