More than 70 newly released Orlando Police Department documents detail how officers dragged victims from danger as they responded to the Pulse nightclub shooting.

  • Dozens of Orlando PD reports from Pulse attack released
  • Documents detailed officers' experiences with victims
  • Report did not include details about officers' interactions with shooter

The city’s police were the lead in handling the June 12 shooting. Although they teamed with several other law enforcement agencies and first responders, their reports explain what it was like to be the first ones inside.

Shots were still ringing out at Pulse Nightclub when Officer R. Sayer says he "ran to the front doors of Pulse Nighclub" where his officers began "assisting many blood soaked victims from the scene."

While Sayer and dozens of other officers ran to the sound of gunfire, hundreds inside the club ran out.

Several officers filed for new shoes, reporting theirs were too soaked with blood after the night was through.

While victims panicked, the report details how officers picked up rifles, created a triage zone near the Einstein's bagel restaurant and set up a perimeter around a makeshift triage center near the bagel shop.

The reports also tell how OPD worked to keep the survivors, and wounded away from danger – many used their patrol cars and truck trailers to move the wounded into a safe area.

Later in the morning, more officers were allowed inside the nightclub.

At 6:47 a.m. Officer Gruler says he saw "an unknown man, lying on the floor, reach up for assistance." Gruler also wrote that he "grabbed both of his wrists and he grabbed mine." The officer dragged him out of the nightclub, alive, nearly five hours after the shooting began.

While the report might have summed up what dozens of officers with OPD did during, and shortly after, the shooting, the documents did not include reports from those officers who interacted with the shooter himself.

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