I was writing up something regarding verbal commands and what happened in an event where when they weren't complied with quickly. As part of that, I brought in the Dinkheller and Conroe, TX shootings where it seemed the officers, one deceased and the other now missing an eye, got locked into an endless loop of the same commands. Even though compliance wasn't happening, the coppers kept giving the same commands. In Conroe, TX, it was 16 "drop the gun" and 4 or 5 "come on man".
Considering this, what popped into my mostly vacant mind was that this was a verbal freeze - out of John Hearne's and others work on Fight, Flight, or Freeze. Rather than the feet getting concreted in place, the mind is. Instead of working through the problem, the computer's blue wheel of death pops up and that repeated command is spinning but frozen wheel. Or, is it indicative of something else?
So, I called John and interupted him being a dad ... sorry Mrs. Hearne. John had some thoughts. He thought Glenn Meyer and Claude Werner would too.
One thing John and I discussed was his parking place analogy, I'll let him explain it. What came up as I was typing was the line, paraphrased at best, about the body not being able to go somplace the mind hasn't been.
Anyway, open for discussion - what do endless loop commands in an event indicate? And what are ways to fix it?