Posted on 07/17/2022 1:16:05 PM PDT by conservative98
A total of 376 law enforcement officers were at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas when a gunman was at large for over an hour on May 24, leaving 21 people dead.
A majority of the officers were federal and state actors, including 149 US Border Patrol officers and 91 Texas Department of Public Safety officers. Twenty-five officers were from the Uvalde Police Department, and 16 were from the Uvalde County Sheriff's Office.
"They failed to prioritize saving the lives of innocent victims over their own safety," according to an interim report released Sunday by the Texas House investigative committee on the shooting.
(Excerpt) Read more at insider.com ...
“First of all I don’t appreciate some of the comments about police officers.....broad brushing if you will.”
Yeah, don’t let 376 bad apples spoil it for the rest.
The report’s purpose is to direct the blame away from the Uvalde and school police. They completely failed and are directly responsible for all the deaths. Their pictures and names should be posted on billboards around Texas.
If the guy with the gun had been cartel and the cop acted against him without "permission", the cop would have ended up in a barrel of acid.
Ah... projection.
A complicated one.
You take an idiotic position that a ‘tard says to other ‘tards at parties after they been drinking. Then come here and try to paint it on us normal Americans.
See, this is why I’m opposed to legalizing drugs. Go eat a pizza and laugh at your hand, dipshit.
> Check out all of the keyboard commandos. <
I’m sure you don’t mean it, but that type of comment works against the free exchange of ideas. Think about it for a moment. If only cops can criticize other cops, then maybe only teachers can criticize other teachers, only senators can criticize other senators, etc.
When somebody posts something that’s wrong or even stupidly wrong, it’s probabably better to just point out where he’s wrong.
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I imagine they had protective gear,too?
“I don’t appreciate some of the comments”
Too bad.
“lease don’t make this a pissing match for whoever can post the”
Take own advice.
XD XD... what on earth are these retards doing?
That is a training issue.
“They failed to prioritize saving the lives of innocent victims over their own safety,”
They are not required by law to do so but they were, once, required by Culture to do so.
The murderer was inside the school and inside the classrooms before any police were in the school.
This happened because teachers blocked open doors.
Everybody can be rightly mad at the police, but it was school teachers who caused this slaughter.
Everyone is worried about upsetting the school teachers.
I’m not.
19 kids died because school teachers couldn’t follow rules.
I think that whoever blocked open those doors should be up for some jail time.
Maybe that would help remind teachers to follow the rules.
“ In that case it should have legal for the one cop to shoot the other ones.”
I’ll bet you he wishes he did now. God help him.
An idiotic thing to do, and probably not even true. When have you heard about police calling for permission before they use their firearms? How about never.
The word is that guy most likely was a police version of an army medic, busying himself with setting up a triage site on school grounds. But with no patients yet.
It isn't being cowards that is a problem. That can happen to anyone in a combat situation. The problem is that at this point we know that 376 law enforcement officers showed up and apparently 2 of them tried to do the right thing. Of those 2 one was disarmed by his fellow officers because he actually wanted to save his wife's life. The rest of the officers did not want that situation to happen, so they didn't let him even try.
What we all just saw in Uvalde Texas is that the training, attitudes, and mindsets of many police officers are so dysfunctional that they are as much of a danger to our society or more than a crazy 19 year old lunatic who decides to shoot up an elementary school. That an evil deranged mentally ill person murders children is at least understandable.
That hundreds of trained, heavily armed police officers don't manage to confront the killer and do whatever they can to save the victims for over an hour is not understandable. Their behavior was more aberrant than the murderer's.
How many Uvalde LEOs does it take to change a light bulb?
376 idle witnesses
They were SUSPENDED by their police department because they did not call their CO, who was not on the scene, ask permission to join and submit a plan.
BTW the Coral Springs Police department was the only police department in the whole mess that actually came out looking like they gave a hoot about the people they are suppose to serve.
I backed Det. Jeffery Gilbert and Det. Carl Schlosser because they were actually doing their job. Their CO Capt. Kevin Nosowicz I criticized because he is a nitwit.
I back the police when they are obviously attempting to do the right thing. Even if it does not turn out all roses the fact that they tried counts with me.
But I am not going to back the police who stand by and do nothing when their job is clear.
Plan?
How about, Shooter dies, innocent live?
How is that for a plan?
They must have been invisible.
> They will modify their training. It is NOT going to happen again. <
I hate to point this out, but the same thing was said after the 2018 Parkland School shooting. The school resource officer was an armed deputy sheriff. He just stood around and did nothing as 17 people were murdered.
And if you recall, the shooter simply walked away after the shooting. He was captured later.
I dunno. Maybe armed teachers are the answer. Or maybe you have a point after all. If enough cops show up, somebody might actually do something right next time. And I’m not being sarcastic there. Maybe some cop will show the initiative that’s needed.
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