The FDLE Released Never-Before-Seen PULSE Surveillance Footage
- Pulse Families and Survivors for Justice
- 1 day ago
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In April 2026, nearly 10 years after the shooting, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) released previously never-before-seen surveillance footage from the mass shooting at the PULSE Nightclub.
The video clips are incredible recordings of police inaction and their abject failure to follow Active Shooter Protocol.
Since the shooting, the City of Orlando has done everything it could to withhold this evidence from the public. As a result of our collective determination to get access to the FACTS, the City of Orlando has once again FAILED to conceal the evidence.
Some important things to remember:
Detective Adam Gruler, the extra-duty officer hired to provide security at PULSE, abandoned his station, allowing the shooter to walk into PULSE twice without ever being stopped by security.
Det. Adam Gruler and the initial responding OPD officers on scene FAILED to follow Active Shooter Protocol, which, put simply, requires police to:
Approach the sound of gunfire;
Stop the Killing;
Neutralize the shooter.
OPD are on camera backing away from the building—taking positions of cover behind parked vehicles in the parking lot and even going further back into Orange Avenue while gunfire erupts inside the club and civilians are being gunned down.
Det. Adam Gruler stated in his sworn testimony that he made the conscious decision that he was not going to die that night and that he watched the shooter kill people inside the nightclub from his position of safety outside of the nightclub and along Orange Avenue.
Police did not enter the nightclub until the shooter's rifle jammed and the shooting from his semi-automatic rifle stopped. This caused the shooter to run into the bathroom where victims/survivors were trapped.
Once they entered, they did not rescue any victims/survivors from the bathrooms, but took cover behind the bar in the Adonis Room. In the span of 30-40 minutes, two survivors exited the South bathroom. They fired shots at one, supposedly missing. Police still did not go in to rescue remaining victims/survivors despite knowing the shooter was not in that bathroom.
Instead, police waited 2 hours as victims/survivors bled. Instead of going down the hallway that the survivors took to escape, they bombed and rammed the club's exterior concrete wall to break into the bathrooms. This resulted in a final shootout with the shooter (only armed with his handgun), where he shot multiple people with his handful of remaining bullets, including an officer in the helmet and a fleeing survivor in the leg. Only eight of the police's 180+ rounds fired at the shooter actually hit him.
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