"It was awful," John agrees. There are people in the department who aren't happy with just how vocal he was with his distaste for the entire night, people who have since made it clear that they might purposely make it difficult for him to advance in his career. It's not something John really cares about, he's never been all that interested in becoming a captain or anything of the sort, but he doesn't want there to be any trouble down the line for Karen just because she's associated with him.

"A stupid decision with no logic attached to it," he says and shakes his head. "And too many people died because of it. I told anyone who would listen that it was a bad idea, but no one really seemed inclined to do anything."

And that's part of why he had gone out. It's not the sort of thing he would have been able to refuse in the first place, he can't just leave people out there to fend for themselves, but knowing so many of the people in this city tasked with protection were unwilling to help had made him furious.