Thanks. I suspect that, as a police officer, she was hesitant to drop the phone because she was thinking of it more as a radio (ETA: to get help) than as an expensive toy. It is not tethered like a shoulder mike that can be dropped and easily retrieved without damage. That doesn't make it best in 20-20 hindsight given the way the events played out, but it is a better explanation of the reluctance.
Last edited by Cheyenne; 03/18/21.
