Posted on 05/26/2022 12:11:21 PM PDT by Pollard
After it was revealed on Thursday that not only did police delay their response to sending tactical teams into the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Tex. amid a school shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead but prevented parents from entering, the Wall Street Journal reported that one mother sprinted into the school to get her children, over objections from law enforcement.
Angeli Rose Gomez drove 40 miles to the school upon hearing of the shooting, and she arrived, said "The police were doing nothing. They were just standing outside the fence. They weren't going in there or running anywhere."
(Excerpt) Read more at thepostmillennial.com ...
And you are able to see into all possible futures and know that the shooter wouldn’t have come out & shot more children. That mom is a hero. Cops need a new playbook.
that video is really sad
Micro management and protocols and workbooks etc have killed good instincts. Then when you try to hold down a overweight 6 foot plus potential threat and he dies of a drug overdose and you get decades in prison, well, it's safer to think things to death.
Force in numbers. Most parents would gladly trade their lives for their kids if there were a chance of stopping the slaughter. And many Texans keep firearms in their vehicles, so they wouldn’t be completely helpless.
Certainly better than giving the maniac a free-fire zone as it happened.
4 or 5 cops with shotguns and body armor could have rushed or charged the suspect and shot him to death. Risky? Yep. But if they didn’t want to take risks, they shouldn’t be cops.
No need to wait for some “Tactical team”. That’s bull sh*t.
This event is a far cry from restraining some drug suspect.
THIS is not going to help community unity one bit.
If you can, no matter what it takes, get your kids out of the public school systems.
Or unless he was selling drugs and/or his body or burgled some houses or cars, by which he could have made a lot of quick money on top of his Wendy’s wages. We already know he was a murderous pervert so nothing would be beyond the pale for him.
Beto has joined the thread
George Floyd influenced a lot.
They’re doing exactly as they’ve been trained: Hold position and wait for someone with authority to make a decision. Don’t place yourself in any danger; That’s not your job.
Seriously.
all this says is that if you’re in a position, don’t rely on police or any leo. they don’t know how to run to trouble any more.
‘to protect and serve’ ~ ‘safe and effective’
US Marshal is spelled with one L. Names like Penny Marshall and Marshall Tucker are spelled with two.
I haven’t mentioned the cops at all.
Soccer moms was my issue.
Tactical soccer moms.
their ‘training’ is wrong.
I thought I was the only one. Every shooting they do nothing but parade around with their AR’s with full body armor and “tactical pants” with lots of pockkets full of stuff that costs thousands and is never used. It always some off duty cop with a hand gun that actually does the work that needs to be done.
I'd like to hear them tell the parents of the 4th grade victims that.
You are right, I stand corrected. I can’t believe the police weren’t even evacuating kids who weren’t in the classroom with the shooter!
Like Mel Gibson
We provide these guys with every piece of safety gear, night vision, the works. And they just mill about waiting for the ok to go in from some fast track bureaucrat who did everything he could to avoid patrolling in a police car when he was first on the force. The I/Cs on the ground need to be fired. No excuses. Just as a start.
Of course nothing will happen. Not one police official will even get a strongly worded letter in its file.
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