Less than an hour after the first strike team entered Stephen Paddock's suite at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas police officers far from the scene were already sharing cellphone photos of the dead gunman. Police body camera footage released recently under a court order shows a group of officers on a Flamingo Road pedestrian bridge near the Strip looking at a graphic image of Paddock's body on their phones at about 12:20 a.m. on Oct. 2, 2017. It's unclear who took the photo or who sent it to the officers. Calling it "an internal matter," Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Sgt. Jeff Clark declined to answer questions about the image or to say whether any officers were disciplined for distributing it. But according to former Assistant Sheriff Tom Roberts, some effort was made to track down the source of the leaked photos, which were taken inside the Mandalay Bay hotel room where Paddock shot himself in the head after murdering 58 people and injuring hundreds of others. "There's a department policy that you're not supposed to send out crime scene photos for personal reasons," said Roberts, who retired early this year before being elected to the Nevada Assembly and before the internal investigation concluded. No one disciplined UNLV criminal justice professor William Sousa declined to discuss this specific case without knowing more about what happened, but he cautioned against assuming something improper was done. "I think most people would agree that taking pictures (at a crime scene) and texting them out to the masses would be an inappropriate thing to do," Sousa said. "But one could envision some tactical purpose for doing that. That it happened doesn't necessarily mean that it was inappropriate."
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