Posted on 08/13/2022 3:41:33 PM PDT by Bratch
This is exactly what many people predicted would happen after the Uvalde school shooting in Texas, and the horrific police response.
With the Uvalde police response fresh on their minds, parents showed up in El Mirage, Arizona after the elementary school was locked down. Apparently, an armed man tried to gain entry to the school. The police were following their lockdown protocols and would not let the arriving parents into the building.
Scuffles with law enforcement began breaking out as desperate parents wanted to protect and save their kids. Subsequently, police opened fire on the parents with tasers then began arresting them.
This is what happens when parents do not trust law enforcement. After the horrific events in Uvalde, where the police just stood around while the kids were being killed, many people asked, ‘what happens next time’? Well, here are the consequences surfacing in Arizona:
Arizona – Several parents were shot with a Taser outside a school in Arizona on Friday while it was under lockdown, police said.I mean really, can you blame the parents?The El Mirage Police Department said in a statement on Facebook that Thompson Ranch Elementary School was placed on lockdown following a report that a male subject had tried to enter the school around 10:30 a.m. with a firearm.
“School staff contacted law enforcement and immediately implemented lockdown protocol,” the post read.
Police said that as law enforcement arrived, the person with the gun fled the premises. During the lockdown, officers began clearing the campus of any threats. A package had arrived on the scene, but it was deemed safe by explosives technicians.
“As officers continued to work on clearing the campus, parents began to arrive on [site] at the school. Several attempted to force entry into the buildings past officers. It was at this time that a male began an altercation with officers. Two other individuals joined in the altercation,” police wrote.
“Officers deployed Tasers, taking the three into custody. One person taken into custody was in possession of a handgun,” they added.
[…] The identities of the parents who were shot with a Taser were not immediately clear. NBC News reported that two of the three parents were shot with a Taser and that all three — two men and one woman — were arrested.
El Mirage police Lt. Jimmy Chavez said one of parents who was shot with a Taser was brought to the hospital to be treated for injuries, according to the network. (read more)
The police really need to reevaluate their community protocols accepting that a large number of parents are not going to accept, ‘sit and wait’…
If thus DA was smart he won’t pursue charges. Jury nullification is likely
The cops are gonna get sued.
This is what happens when the public loses confidence in the police. And if they think Americans were clinging to their guns before, they ain’t seen nothin’ yet!
Tasing Parents? What LEO thinks that is EVER a good idea? The LEOs are just damn lucky the other parents didn’t beat the hell out of them.
The longer this Stupid Shit continues to happen, the higher the odds LEOs will be hurt. THEN we will hear all the whining to “Back the Blue”. Maybe LEOs need to man up and not be cowards. Cowards taze parents.
Spot on!
The police should be charged with assault, fired, and jailed. Never should they stop parents from getting to or getting their children.
...or shoot them. In self-defense of course.
The PD doesn’t care much either. Since the 1960’s US police have become heavily committed to detailed written protocols and regulations covering every major contingency that can be thought of. Officers who diverge from the protocols and rules of engagement can face heavy disciplinary consequences. The goal is to be able to defend every single action taken to the post action review panels who will review each action ona minute by minute basis ideally caught on numerous cameras and electronic media. In major incidents many police departments insist on a literal forensic history of of each round of any sort fired and any action taken. These reports are used a bureaucratic cover by the command hierarchy to defend themselves and their political masters to the news media. The mentality is zero defects and literally ‘the operation was doctrineally sound and correctly executed, unfortunately the patient died. So sorry. That is the reality of today’s bureaucratized, legalistic, law enforcement business.
Maybe these officers should have escorted the parents in to get their children. Ah, but that would be ‘serve and protect’, which they don’t do anymore.
Two LEO idiots opened fire in a crowed sidewalk in a nightclub district because two drunks were gettin into it. Of course they hit innocent civilians.
Ever since the North Hollywood shootout
It’s getting very hard to back the government and all those people sworn to defend the constitution and all Americans when those same entities allow illegals to live at tax payers expense, and forces American’s to comply with inane policies and laws that do not comply with the constitution or common sense or both.
Sorry about the running sentence but I’m running to try and get ahead of the madness without being steamrolled to NPC status
True but the origins go back to the 60’s-70’s Viet Nam riot culture. Police agencies became the instant villains in such epic melees as the ‘Battle of Century City’ and the Mass State Police using lots of bird shot to clear Harvard Square. The adoption of ever more detailed protocols began and created a heavily bureaucratic defensive mindset. The goal became not enforcing order but being able to defend the politicians from the press. When a real battle such as the attack on police by heavily armed fanatics of the Black Liberation Army happened in Cleveland in July 1968 it was covered by the press and speedily forgotten about. The cops knew they were always going to be the bad racists and began to withdraw from real peace enforcement to bureaucratically defensible ‘law enforcement’ until today it is the Law Enforcement industry versus ‘civilians’ a detestable word in the mouth of police officers.
Nobody on our side should support the police.
This what the Uvalde police did to parents and got 19 kids killed.
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Jul 17, 2022 — In total, 376 law enforcement officers descended upon the school, according to the most extensive account of the shooting to date.
The real question that might/should be asked.
If an Armed and trained First Responder had been at that scene, could he or she stopped it by killing/neutralizing the shooter?
Never trust the government with your children.
The big question is why the parents are sending their kids to the public school.
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