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Texas cop says officers didn't rush to find gunman because 'they could have been shot' then claims they DELIBERATELY locked inside classroom to save other students: Experts slam 'disgusting' decision that doctors say sealed the fate of injured kids
The Daily Mail ^ | 05/27/2022 | Jennifer Smith

Posted on 05/27/2022 8:17:06 AM PDT by thegagline

Texas cops said last night that they didn't immediately rush in to find the shooter on Tuesday's attack after being shot at because they feared they might be killed, and even suggested that they deliberately locked the gunman in the classroom where he slaughtered 21 people in order to trap him.

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He was being challenged by Wolf Blitzer over why the first officers who responded to the shooting retreated after Salvador Ramos shot at them with his AR-15 and then waited an hour for tactical SWAT teams to take him out, leaving him alone in a classroom with the 19 fourth graders and two teachers who he slaughtered.

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So they were able to contain that gunman inside that classroom so that he was not able to go to any other portions of the school to commit any other killings,' Lt. Olivarez said.

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'Waiting an hour is disgusting. If that turns out to be true, then it is a disgusting fact,' Sean Burke, a retired school resource officer from Massachusetts who now is the president of the School Safety Advocacy Council, told NBC.

*** Surgeons at the hospital in Uvalde have also suggested that the delay in responding to the shooting may have cost some kids their lives.

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There is growing anger and frustrating among parents who were pepper sprayed, pinned to the ground and even placed in handcuffs.

Angeli Gomez (above) jumped the school fence and ran inside the school where she rescued her children herself

'The police were doing nothing,' Angeli Rose Gomez told the Wall Street Journal.

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(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; corruption; coward; cowardice; cowards; crime; donutwatch; police; pussies; texas; uvalde
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To: thegagline

Hmm, if they locked the door then they had a key. But their excuse the other day was that they stood around because they were waiting for a key.


41 posted on 05/27/2022 9:23:15 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: thegagline

Screw the blue


42 posted on 05/27/2022 9:25:57 AM PDT by MachIV
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To: kvanbrunt2

My former employer gave us bars to block the door from opening.


43 posted on 05/27/2022 9:26:38 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: so_real

Agree, hunt the COWARDS down! Time for a hanging. ALL of them.


44 posted on 05/27/2022 9:28:42 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: thegagline

I think they will end up giving all the cops there Medals of Valor for saving the lives of the all the parents who tried to go into that school to save the children’s lives. Maybe give them a little bonus on their pensions, too.


45 posted on 05/27/2022 9:42:35 AM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: kvanbrunt2
Very lucky

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46 posted on 05/27/2022 9:49:51 AM PDT by wardaddy (Where did all the same posters go......they cannot have all died ....could they ?)
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To: thegagline

No windows in the classroom?


47 posted on 05/27/2022 9:49:54 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Manuel OKelley

My exact thoughts all the stories about my early life would be shattered my shoulder and even my wife would look at me like what the hell happened to you do you went from balls to the wall All over the world stuff we’ve all heard about from everybody that knows you and now you’re sniveling coward

I could not bear that even old pacemaker pulmonary embolism all kind of shit I can still go when I got to go I had to recently I think I recounted it here but I had my oldest son iad back up

If ever there was a time to risk your life to do the right thing that was certainly do it I know but capabilities and limitation I’m no recon ranger

But I got balls I know that in a good Lucky so far sometimes you just have to say F it

Those guys were all strapped

I’ve never in my life been as angry about a public event

Tears in my eyes watching those mothers Sabi on their knees begging if that doesn’t move you did you have no heart either way

You have to have repercussions for this and the police cannot cover their damn asses like that always do where are the Texas Rangers someone to say something about this the only person I’ve seen speak candidly is Bernie Kerik

I truly detest these jacked up cops they are not Navy SEALs they are police officer


48 posted on 05/27/2022 9:56:51 AM PDT by wardaddy (Where did all the same posters go......they cannot have all died ....could they ?)
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To: thegagline
In every situation there's never a shortage of genius hindsight experts to find fault or point fingers.
Do you need any more evidence that the police are only there to protect and serve the interests of the powerful and elite?
Knowing that, where were the chest pounding, gun toting, "don't mess with Texas" big mouths when the children needed them?
Complaining about the lack of police protection?
49 posted on 05/27/2022 10:03:13 AM PDT by lewislynn (The Murdochs might be citizens but they aren't true blue Americans.)
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To: thegagline

Pete Arredondo is the Chief of Police for the Uvalda school district. He was the incident commander for the school shooter incident. HE was the one who made the police wait...he misread the situation and thought it was a barricaded shooter, and that the ‘active shooter” part was over.

A quick search around the net finds barely a mention of him and his law enforcement position-it’s been scrubbed already. At the press conference, the guy doing the talking wouldn’t release his name. BUT, he did say it was a bad mistake on the police’s part.


50 posted on 05/27/2022 10:05:59 AM PDT by blu (Bagster's ping on the side oh, and FJB!)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Still are today.


51 posted on 05/27/2022 10:11:19 AM PDT by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: Yo-Yo

” . . . [h]ad the police immediately stormed the shooter and neutralized him . . .”


I have never been a police officer, so I can’t presume to know about tactics to be used in a hostage or other violent situation. But, I am at a loss to understand why those police officers stood around for an hour while those children were slaughtered. While I am loath to say this, it seems the police were afraid of being shot and so they opted to let the children be shot. If this is true, none of those officers deserves to continue to wear a badge or carry a gun for even another minute.


52 posted on 05/27/2022 10:11:45 AM PDT by JGPhila
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To: thegagline

As long as these disgusting slugs went home safely at the end of the shift.

I’d do anything to help kids, even if I had nothing but just my hands. They are our future.


53 posted on 05/27/2022 10:13:30 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: JGPhila
it seems the police were afraid of being shot and so they opted to let the children be shot. If this is true, none of those officers deserves to continue to wear a badge or carry a gun for even another minute.

I believe that your assumptions are correct, and sadly I would also venture a guess that the officers' actions to fall back and wait for reinforcements was departmental policy.

I would not want to be the county sheriff when he is up for re-election.

54 posted on 05/27/2022 10:16:28 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: thegagline
Texas cops didn't rush to find gunman because 'they could have been shot' and 'DELIBERATELY locked inside classroom to save other students

That headline makes no sense. Checkbox age journalism.

55 posted on 05/27/2022 10:21:16 AM PDT by CodeJockey (Politicians are to America as oligarchs are to Russia. )
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To: thegagline

I don’t understand why the police weren’t more prepared. Another article said that Uvalde schools were locked down at least 48 times this academic year. They should have had a strategy well in place. And I don’t mean standing around waiting for someone else to do something — or pepper spraying anxious parents.


56 posted on 05/27/2022 10:22:17 AM PDT by KittyKares (Trump put us in the room; now we're putting ourselves in the room. - Steve Bannon)
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To: wardaddy

Yep, my dad was crippled most of my life from injuries but he never hesitated to step in to anything and expected that from me as well and I am convinced that is the problem with most of the world today—cowardice.

Don’t care what religion or what you believe-—there is nothing to fear in dying honorably in protecting those who cannot protect themselves.


57 posted on 05/27/2022 10:57:30 AM PDT by Manuel OKelley
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To: Manuel OKelley

Amen brother

Some of just know

If you’re a man you live for this moment if it happens to you you just have to do it it’s in my genetics my father my grandpa other and and so on the Anglo-Saxon Norman wars to the American revolution and the war between the states and so forth we have done our best to drill that out of our young men now and our own peril
History is replete with men often Very young and some woman who rise above themselves and just dive in

Is this situation at least trying is better than doing nothing

I just listened to the audio tape amplified on bannon with the woman at the school wailing shrieking and screaming and crying it is very difficult absolutely one of the worst things I’ve ever heard in my life

They are getting exposed for all of their lies and their cowardice every hour I’ve never seen public reaction like this the governor should fire the whole goddamn police department and said the National Guard


58 posted on 05/27/2022 11:07:31 AM PDT by wardaddy (Where did all the same posters go......they cannot have all died ....could they ?)
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To: Bulwyf

The 7.62 in my hip pisses on these cops.


59 posted on 05/27/2022 11:22:50 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 (That`s 464 people per square foot! Is this corrrect..it was NYC.)
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To: janetjanet998

LOL -- needed that :-)


60 posted on 05/27/2022 12:22:31 PM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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