09/13/2026
Newly released footage from the Pulse Orlando shooting response shows the first officer on scene, Det. Adam Gruler—who current Orange County Sheriff John Mina gave a valor award to—is shown hiding behind a vehicle as officers finally approach the building... nearly 10 minutes after the shooting.
After taking cover behind a car with his weapon still drawn, Gruler then hides behind a fence at the property line. Gruler's sworn testimony recorded him stating that he "made the conscious decision that he was not going to die" that night, which he made as he watched the shooter kill victims on the dance floor.
GRULER was even given instructions to go in and stop the shooter over the radio by a superior. Gruler did not follow those orders.
By the time the Officer in this video arrived on the scene, the majority of the shooting was over, the shooter's rifle had jammed, and he had ran into the bathroom where victims were trapped.
We are not sure (yet) if the reasons for these failures was due to the actions/decisions of individual officers, or if this was a leadership failure (aka John Mina). Or a mix of both. For instance, we know the OPD did not have an Active Shooter Policy at the time of the shooting—when most smaller cities did have such a policy in place after the Columbine shooting. We are currently suing the City of Orlando for training records so we can evaluate whether OPD officers were trained appropriately.
There has been zero independent oversight, which is why we don't have answers to these questions, why onePULSE got away with pocketing and wasting millions, and why the City has gotten away with keeping so much information from the public.
