Until the case goes through the courts there will likley be no reliable information out there. Until the info is released and the issue is tried in the courts things will be kept pretty closed up. I would consider any information to be extremely suspect until it gets to the courts given that litigation has already been threatened.
Until it is rsolved anything else is mere speculation. You super duper armchair tactical genius's keep on it. All it is is "hot air" that you're spreading as you were not there, not in the negotiations and certainly not in the decision loop. Don't let that stop your criticism of actions you have never been close to outside of a TV show.
I'll refuse to further feed your trolls in this issue.
Please note not once have I taken a stance on whether the Officers did the right OR wrong thing here. I can't as I wasn't there either. At least I won't castigate them for having the poor fortune of having to be there themselves and work in what was likely to be a no win situation.
I do know one simple thing that is not contested. The one person who could have stopped it all by himself and see to it no one was injured, including the child, was dear old dad. He had absolutely no legal, moral or rational jutification for what he did. I find it absolutely rediculous that so much criticism is leveled at the Police yet almost none to the person who used his own child as a hostage and shield. Pathetic actually.