The San Diego Police Department is taking no chances in the wake of recent and ongoing gun violence worldwide. Dozens of officers were standing watch at Comic-Con, looking out from places like the top of the Hilton San Diego Bayfront parking structure and surveying the surrounding area with binoculars, rifles at their side.
“With terrorism across the globe — France last year — and Dallas and Orlando, you have to make adjustments,” San Diego Police Department spokesman Lt. Paul Connelly told the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday.