Posted on 05/26/2022 6:54:07 PM PDT by Morgana
Uvalde police are facing new criticism over first-hand accounts and videos showing them handcuffing and restraining frantic parents, who were urging them to storm the Robb Elementary school building amid the massacre.
'The police were doing nothing,' Angeli Rose Gomez told the Wall Street Journal. 'They were just standing outside the fence. They weren't going in there or running anywhere.'
Gomez has two children in second and third grade and she reportedly drove 40 miles to the school after hearing of the attack.
She was one of the desperate parents who encouraged police with increasing urgency to enter the school.
Eventually, federal marshals put Gomez in handcuffs and told her she was under arrest for intervening in an active investigation, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Gomez said she was able to convince a Uvalde officer whom she knew to have the marshal free her and she took the opportunity to move away from the crowd, jump the school fence, and ran inside the school where she rescued her children herself.
She said that other parents also trying to get to their kids were tackled and even pepper-sprayed by police.
Angel Garza, whose daughter was killed, was handcuffed after trying to run into the school when he heard that a 'girl called Amerie' had been shot.
Garza later told his heartbreaking story to Anderson Cooper.
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This incident will irrevocably break the few remaining shreds of trust between law abiding citizens and the cops.
That does not bode well for society.
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Police “acted stupidly”. Heard it some where b4. I even posted it.
Not a good approximation of the “fact pattern” the gun grabbers were hoping for.
They didn’t act at all.
That was very, very stupid.
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A perfect response to leftists on why you need your guns - the cops are not going to protect you
The police are the enemy, folks.
Bookmark for reference.
The security wasn’t good at the school and the police should have acted quicker, but what if the killer shot the parents when they went in?
“ but what if the killer shot the parents when they went in?”
He would have. The parents knew that. They were going in anyway. Tgey wanted to that is.
Rxactly. Watch the story fade to nothing by Monday, because the outrage over the lack of action by LEO will reinforce the fact that, a good person with a gun, might have saved MANY lives in Uvalde. The facts coming out, completely support our need for private citizens to own firearms.
Did you see all the morbidly obese cops shuffling around the scene in their fancy tax-payer funded gear. Fat cops annoy me so much. If you can’t do a few pull ups and waddle your way to a 7 minute mile you shouldn’t be a cop. For God’s sake ease off the beer and burritos. Bunch of lazy lard ass Richard Jewell types who want the respect and cool toys that come with the badge but lack the most basic self-discipline.
Yes. If more people come to realize this simple truth because of this terrible atrocity, at least some good will have come of it.
I’d take 5 random guys from our gun club over this entire sorry assed lot any day of the week.
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That is why I wholeheartedly have always supported defunding the police.
Frigging cuff and spray parents. Cripes!
Red school districts need to protect the schools asap with retired military vets that aren’t afraid of a fight and check everyone coming into school
Didn’t want to get their new uniforms or shiny tools all mucked up.
Degrades the resell value if actually taken out of the original package.
Such a brazen, intentional display of cowardice. Gotta wonder if this was pre-planned.
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