Posted on 05/24/2022 1:38:22 PM PDT by luvie
Multiple people are reported killed and injured in a shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Get the latest on the Uvalde, Texas school shooting in our LIVE BREAKING NEWS COVERAGE.
“Let the lawsuits begin”.
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but law enforcement enjoys what is called “sovereign immunity”. They can’t be sued.
Ironically, there will be lawsuits, and large payouts, but they will be paid by the city taxpayers. They will have to have another bond issue, and raise the property tax. Basically, at least in part the money for any lawsuits will come from the victims families.
Had this video been corroborated and reviewed by law enforcement ?
Yes and many news networks have now picked it up as well.
Agreed. The situation doesn’t make sense. I finally saw a mention in an article, that the pickup truck belonged to his grandmother. But still, the rifles sold complete are expensive, and frugality for long term goals doesn’t seem likely in a psychopath.
Real psychopaths are bizarre and often either unaddressed or misdiagnosed by psychologists. There are too many socio-political efforts involved in psychology practice and education.
Texas shooter Salvador Ramos snarled ‘look at what we have here’ before opening fire
https://nypost.com/2022/05/27/texas-shooter-salvador-ramos-snarled-look-at-what-we-have-here-before-opening-fire/
Here’s a sickening account of the Police response from a 4th Grade survivor:
https://twitter.com/evanhill/status/1529930794214604805
bttt
It shocks and sickens me that the police primary directive is not protection of the public, but protection of the law #1 (government) and self protection#2
my conspiracy nut side wouldn't be surprised if the perps guns traced back to "Fast and Furious" [/sarcasm]
thank god the Border Patrol stepped up,
The motive for the massacre — the nation’s deadliest school shooting since Newtown, Connecticut, almost a decade ago — remained under investigation.
I say it was Satan inspired. The shooter had turned over his soul to Satan.
Official: Girl told 911 ‘send the police now’ as cops waited
https://apnews.com/article/uvalde-school-shooting-430b975bbaacce445451e4026cedc171
Just saw on TRUTH that the local cops had specific training in a school (maybe THE school) just 2 months before. They were taught to actively seek out the shooter immediately and engage even at the risk of death.
Yes I wasn’t there but I think so far it’s starting to look like complete cowardice for the local cops.
https://mobile.twitter.com/bymikebaker/status/1530357140191186944
Before massacre, Uvalde gunman frequently threatened teen girls online
Young people who met the alleged gunman online said he had threatened to kidnap, rape or kill. But they said their reports were ignored and that his kind of angry misogyny was just “how online is.”
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/05/28/uvalde-shooting-gunmen-teen-girls/
I hate Big Tech. Some of this, maybe a lot, rests on them. They had plenty of warning, should have got authorities involved.
They are more concerned with getting their woke social messages across, pro Democrat in elections than safety.
Maybe Musk will start a change.
Florida Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd:
“If you come to a school in this county, armed, we’re going to do our best through either our guardians, our school resource officers, or our school resource deputy sheriffs to elminate the threat outside of the school before they ever get to the children. We’re trained to do that.”
He then held up a picture of a deputy pointing a gun.
“This is the last thing you’ll see before we put a bullet through your head if you’re trying to hurt our children. We are going to shoot you graveyard dead if you come onto a campus, with a gun, threatening our children or shooting at us.”
https://twitter.com/PolkCoSheriff/status/1530291019677421568
I love that man so much.
Pity that wasn’t their policy before (or was it?).
Interesting.
They knew what to do, they just didn’t do it.
How many young lives could have been saved if the cops had gone in immediately?
Despite ample school security plan, Texas shooter found gaps
Robb Elementary School had measures in place to prevent this kind of violence. A fence lined the school property. Teachers were ordered to keep classroom doors closed and locked. Students faced regular lockdown and evacuation drills.
But when an 18-year-old man arrived Tuesday at the school in Uvalde, Texas, intent on killing children, none of it stopped him.
Security failures allowed the shooter to massacre 19 students and two teachers, school safety experts say. The shooting already has led to calls to fortify schools further, on top of millions spent on equipment and other measures following earlier shootings. But more security offers drawbacks, with no guarantee of an end to mass violence. In the worst case, as in Uvalde, it could backfire.
Officials say Texas gunman entered unimpeded as anger mounts over police response
The suspect crashed his pickup truck outside the school at 11:28 a.m. (1628 GMT), opened fire on two people at a funeral home across the street, then scaled a fence onto school property and walked into one of the buildings through an unlocked rear door at 11:40 a.m. (1640 GMT), Escalon said.
Two responding officers entered the school four minutes later but took cover after Ramos fired multiple rounds at them, Escalon said.
The shooter then barricaded himself inside the fourth-grade classroom of his victims, mostly 9- and 10-year-olds, for an hour before a U.S. Border Patrol tactical team breached the room and fatally shot him, Escalon said.
The hour-long interval appeared to be at odds with an approach adopted by many law enforcement agencies to confront “active shooters” at schools immediately to stop any further bloodshed.
Total combat fail by the police.
I don't count on the police for anything more than random and capricious traffic harrassment
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