John Timoney Quotations

We stopped the rescue operation around 11 o'clock (Thursday) night, ... As the tide came in, the structure began to move, and other parts began to collapse again. We made the decision to pull our divers out.

When we get a chance, the divers will go in,

Yes, ... If you behave well, we won't tear gas you.

Life has changed post-September 11, ... It's something we'll have to get used to, but as much as possible, as much as humanly possible, people should resume normal activities.

Right now, it looks like he was shot by the suspect; that may change,

I have never, in my career, seen a situation where the age (of the victims) ranges from 79 down to 11,

If officers are found to have overstepped their bounds, they will be dealt with,

There is a fingerprint and DNA match and an eyewitness has identified this individual,

He's being treated for a gunshot wound to the head,

I think it's a bit premature to go into any kind of speculation now,

It had the potential, obviously, of creating quite a bit of damage,

Rodney King, if you remember, is a man in a supine, fetal position -- not resisting -- who (was hit) 56 times with billy clubs. There are no billy clubs in this video. This is the culmination of a chase where a guy is clearly resisting,

You can bet there will be a whole host of charges.

The rapist has plagued this city for exactly a year,

There are prescribed ways of doing this. I know this is very frustrating and isn't satisfactory, but that's the way it is,

We have done a tremendous amount of training, visual training, team training. We have a real good deployment,

The structure is very shaky right now, it's very unstable, ... We're waiting for the Army Corps of Engineers to do an assessment and advise us whether we can go underneath it, or we have to shore it up, or tear it down, before the rescue continues.

Quite a few house boats turned over, ... I wouldn't be surprised if we find a few more bodies.

The one fortunate thing in this very tragic situation is that when it was happening, there were two officers from our SWAT unit just a block away, so they got here quite fast and were able to evacuate people from the scene,

(The investigation) is going to take a while, ... There are lots of witnesses and lots of conflicting statements throughout this event. This investigation ... will be under the supervision of the (district attorney's) office.

The guy obviously doesn't want to get arrested, ... When somebody doesn't want to get arrested, there's really no very easy way of doing it.