I do not know what happened but the manager and all of the other hostages would have been in fear of losing their lives and they did what they thought was the correct thing based on what they knew. Criticism of the manager and the men that fled is unjustified in my opinion.
In my opinion the police did the correct thing in not giving him the flag that he requested as he would probably have stated killing the hostages once he got it. Also in my opinion any criticism of the police is also unjustified unless an investigation shows otherwise.
