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Texas Police Lieutenant Says Cops Were Reluctant to Engage Gunman Because ‘They Could’ve Been Shot’
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Posted on 05/27/2022 7:17:43 AM PDT by TigerClaws

A Texas Department of Public Safety official said responding officers were cautious as they entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas because “they could’ve been shot.”

Nineteen children and two teachers were murdered after authorities say an 18-year-old male entered with a rifle 12 minutes after he crashed a car near campus.

The New York Times reported the shooter was inside the school for about an hour before officers finally breached the classroom he was in and shot and killed him.

Reporters demanded answers during a contentious press conference Thursday afternoon. State law enforcement officials addressed the public a day after some parents with children in the school said they were prevented from going in by officers.

One girl inside the room reportedly bled for an hour after she was shot. She died at a hospital. It is unknown if that hour might have saved her life.

On Thursday’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, the host discussed the Tuesday’s horrifying events with DPS Lt. Chris Olivarez.

Blitzer asked his guest if officers at the scene made the correct choice to wait for backup before they went after the gunman.

Olivarez said officers were inside the school quickly, and they heard gunfire when they arrived. They called for reinforcements, he said. The officers in the building waited for a special tactical team to show up as they isolated the shooter to one classroom.

“Don’t current best practices, don’t they call for officers to disable a shooter as quickly as possible, regardless of how many officers are actually on site?” Blitzer asked him.

Olivarez said the officers who arrived at the school quickly might have been shot had they attempted to take out the gunman alone. He said,

The active shooter situation, you want to stop the killing, you want to preserve life, but also one thing that – of course, the American people need to understand — that officers are making entry into this building. They do not know where the gunman is. They are hearing gunshots.They are receiving gunshots. At that point, if they proceeded any further not knowing where the suspect was at, they could’ve been shot, they could’ve been killed, and that gunman would have had an opportunity to kill other people inside that school.


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KEYWORDS: banglist; cowardice; cowards; donutwatch; pussies; thatstheirjob
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To: TigerClaws

Fire the whole damn force!


21 posted on 05/27/2022 7:38:15 AM PDT by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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To: BiglyCommentary

But you just know they’d have had no problems rushing a house where they thought there was a couple of pot plants growing and there’d be some of that sweet, sweet, forfeiture money.


22 posted on 05/27/2022 7:38:24 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines (Their side circles the wagons. Our side revs up the bus)
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To: TigerClaws

‘They Could’ve Been Shot’ ??

Seriously?

They are in the wrong business, then


23 posted on 05/27/2022 7:38:40 AM PDT by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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To: TigerClaws

These idiots aren’t as brave as the actor idiots who portray them every night on TV when they’re not crawling in bed with a same sexer.


24 posted on 05/27/2022 7:40:19 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't blame me, I voted for President Trump.)
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To: TigerClaws

On the face of it, they failed to serve.

On the face of it, they failed to protect.


25 posted on 05/27/2022 7:40:51 AM PDT by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: coloradan
Right. So what? I mean we have a guy in the WH who cheated to get there”?

NO amount of truth about malfeasance cuts the mustard anymore.

26 posted on 05/27/2022 7:41:35 AM PDT by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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To: TigerClaws

We have thousands of patriots that have been purged from the armed forces for postings on social media and refusal to clot shot,,,

,, that were infantry, have actually been under fire and been shot at,,

,, these men are worth their weight in gold,,,

,,, and would be great school guards.

Enough for every school in the nation I bet.

Just sayin.


27 posted on 05/27/2022 7:41:43 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: metmom

Those poor kids and their teachers were being slaughtered over a period of 60-90 minutes while the cops scurried around for cover outside and made a ‘plan’. That’s what it appears to be at this point. I can’t imagine the horror and fear inside that classroom. Incomprehensible.


28 posted on 05/27/2022 7:41:47 AM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: TigerClaws

Not a parallel situation but - a few years ago we asked the local police to provide an officer to stop traffic on a busy road to allow safe crossing for a family bike ride event. Request Denied. Asked for a meeting with the chief, he sent a deputy chief who said it was too dangerous for officers to provide traffic control and would not give an inch. Appealed to the city council who backed up the police decision, and started yammmering about high insurance costs.

This is the definition of “protect and serve” nowadays: risk aversion and cover thy ass.


29 posted on 05/27/2022 7:42:45 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: Midwesterner53

“So many conflicting reports on what the cops did, something is very wrong here.”

Yeah, I’m not believing anything right now, either.


30 posted on 05/27/2022 7:43:22 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: TigerClaws

This is going to enable BLM and the defund the police crowd. The blowback from this may even hurt us in November.

Dangerous times indeed.


31 posted on 05/27/2022 7:43:23 AM PDT by CodeJockey (Politicians are to America as oligarchs are to Russia. )
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To: TigerClaws
"People Sleep Peacefully in Their Beds at Night Only Because Rough Men Stand Ready to Do Violence on Their Behalf"

School Children learn Peacefully in Their Schools Only Because Rough Men Stand Ready to Do Violence on Their Behalf

The snowflake cowards need to resign.

32 posted on 05/27/2022 7:43:53 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: Drew68

Being a cop should be a calling. People who follow a calling make a lot of sacrifices in their lives. If you don’t have that calling you should never ever be a cop. Without that calling and desire to serve you will always choose to do the safe thing so you can make it home to your family at the end of the day. To these people its just a job. Being a cop is not just a job. Much like being a firefighter or a minister is not just a job. There is so much more to it than getting your paycheck and going home to wife and kids.

These guys who were cowards and decided they rather go home to wife and kids than save the lives of these other little kids have no business being cops and should be removed from duty.


33 posted on 05/27/2022 7:43:57 AM PDT by NicoDon
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To: TigerClaws

FLIR scopes, geniuses. You’ve got a fully equipped SWAT team, Federal Marshals and nobody has a ballistic shield or a FLIR scope.

And now the LT is saying, “They could have been shot.”

You mean, shot going in and rescuing their own kids? Because they DID go in successfully and do that.

In fact THEY FAILED to restrain an unarmed mother who went in and DID THE SAME THING. Found her kids and got them out - no vest or gun - just balls.

LT, you can always become a florist. Time to study up, coward.


35 posted on 05/27/2022 7:45:39 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: NicoDon

Many of these folks weren’t cops, they were social workers pretending to be cops.


36 posted on 05/27/2022 7:46:22 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Highest Authority

Dont be surprised if the good.citizens of Uvalde find a way to take revenge. Small town where this incident affected many of itz citizens one way or another.


37 posted on 05/27/2022 7:47:24 AM PDT by Jaysin (Trump can’t be beat, unless the democrats cheat)
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To: TigerClaws

They want their fancy military gear. But they are nothing like the military. At all.


38 posted on 05/27/2022 7:47:43 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Deo volente

I don’t even want to think about it.

Those poor kids who were the last to be shot saw it all and knew their turn was coming. It’s beyond a nightmare scenario.


39 posted on 05/27/2022 7:48:06 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith… )
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To: TigerClaws

18 minutes is about the same time as a donut run.


40 posted on 05/27/2022 7:49:04 AM PDT by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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