Raptors celebrations: what’s the right way to handle a shooting at a large public event?

That was Raptors play-by-play announcer, Matt Devlin, speaking to the huge crowd at Nathan Phillips Square in Downtown Toronto yesterday.

This was moments after shots rang out in a section of the crowd. Four people were injured in the shootings, and six men have been charged in relation to the incidents.

So when a shooting happens at a crowd like this, what are the organizers of the event supposed to do? Should they have shut the celebrations down and evacuated the area? Or did they handle this pretty much perfectly?

Guest: Ross Mclean

Security consultant and former Toronto police officer

That was Raptors play-by-play announcer, Matt Devlin, speaking to the huge crowd at Nathan Phillips Square in Downtown Toronto yesterday.

This was moments after shots rang out in a section of the crowd. Four people were injured in the shootings, and six men have been charged in relation to the incidents.

So when a shooting happens at a crowd like this, what are the organizers of the event supposed to do? Should they have shut the celebrations down and evacuated the area? Or did they handle this pretty much perfectly?

Guest: Ross Mclean

Security consultant and former Toronto police officer