Posted on 05/24/2022 1:38:22 PM PDT by luvie
It’s sad, but more and more of us feel like this every day.
US Justice Department spokesman Anthony Coley said the review would be conducted in a fair, impartial and independent manner and the findings would be made public. The announcement came as President Joe Biden was visiting Uvalde, where he and first lady Jill Biden paid their respects at a memorial to the 19 students and two teachers killed at Robb Elementary School on Tuesday.
The goal of the review, which the mayor requested, is “to provide an independent account of law enforcement actions and response that day, and to identify lessons learned and best practices to help first responders prepare for and respond to active shooter events,” Coley said in a statement.
Handling the review is the department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. It was not immediately clear how the review would be conducted, whether law enforcement officials could be compelled to cooperate in the review and when it might be completed.
The Federal Govt. should put up a front well-developed online video game, that is based on shooting things up. They then can monitor and track all who get off on it, and monitor the chat rooms for the game.
police chief donated to beto
‘Very angry’: Uvalde locals grapple with the Police Chief of the ‘school district’ Pete Arrendondo
The blame for an excruciating delay in killing the gunman at a Texas elementary school — even as parents outside begged police to rush in and panicked children called 911 from inside — has been placed with the school district’s homegrown police chief.
The 50-year-old Arredondo has spent much of a nearly 30-year career in law enforcement in Uvalde, returning in 2020 to take the head police job at the school district.
Arredondo, who grew up in Uvalde and graduated from high school here, was set to be sworn in Tuesday to his new spot on the City Council after being elected earlier this month...
Got my tin foil beanie on now...
I’m sorry, this just sound like a cover story to me...
(A CYA lawsuit kind of story...)
They have now determined that the teacher, who has not been identified, propped the door open with a rock, but then removed the rock and closed the door when she realized there was a shooter on campus, said Travis Considine, chief communications officer for the Texas Department of Public Safety. But, Considine said, the door that was designed to lock when shut did not lock.
“We did verify she closed the door. The door did not lock. We know that much and now investigators are looking into why it did not lock,” Considine said.
https://apnews.com/article/uvalde-school-shooting-texas-a55b3ccc5a32dce916e7d0a10d7c546e
The story about how the Uvalde gunman entered the school is shifting
June 1, 202210:37 AM ET
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/01/1102355422/uvalde-shooting-teacher-door
She has said, through her lawyer, that she pulled the door to close it after kicking the rock away that was holding the door open. The DPS says that she slammed the door closed. And NPR says she closed the door. Words matter.
Maybe these doors are designed to close and properly lock, when they have been opened enough for someone to walk through, and that swinging back motion locks the door.
Bu maybe it’s a different story, if the door is proper open by the width of a rock, and then pulled to, after the rock is kicked aside??? Tests can be run independently to verify if this could be an issue, or not. IF it is an issue, then the Govt. needs to put out a warning to all schools that use doors like this, with instructions on how to properly close the door to lock it, after it has been propped open, EVEN IF PROPPING THE DOOR OPEN IS AGAINST SCHOOL REGULATIONS.
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