Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

'The police were doing nothing': Uvalde police handcuffed and pepper-sprayed parents, who urged them to storm the school, including the dad of a murdered girl and a mom-of-two who got free, jumped a fence and rescued her kids herself
Daily Mail UK ^ | May 26, 2022 | Gina Martinez

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: accomplicepd; texas; uvalde
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 last
To: old-ager

We kbow to next time, thats for sure.


61 posted on 05/26/2022 8:23:02 PM PDT by griffin (When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: TakebackGOP

But it was reported that the school has its own police dept with a chief, 5 officers, and a guard.


62 posted on 05/26/2022 8:23:58 PM PDT by mcshot (Awe shucks and a whole lot more!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: TakebackGOP

“They could get in the way of the cops.”

Seriesly?? You’re gonna fly that flag with THIS news article?? SMH. LOL if it wasn’t so sad.


63 posted on 05/26/2022 8:30:17 PM PDT by griffin (When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 47 | View Replies]

To: SkyDancer

Thats fine. at least her kids are alive. ;)


64 posted on 05/26/2022 8:32:44 PM PDT by griffin (When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 56 | View Replies]

To: pangaea6
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.

There are a few school districts in Texas who have teachers that conceal carry and get extra training. None of these schools have had a shooting incident yet. 🤔

65 posted on 05/26/2022 8:50:36 PM PDT by rmichaelj (Ave Maria gratia plena, Dominus tecum.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: Callahan
Did you see all the morbidly obese cops shuffling around the scene in their fancy tax-payer funded gear.

I bet they are good at writing traffic tickets and bringing money in for the town,

Someone going 35 in a 25 then they are on it, someone robbing your house or shooting up a school, well they can't be bothered, they have quotas to meet.

66 posted on 05/26/2022 9:07:11 PM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Morgana

This is horrifying video taken outside the school:

https://twitter.com/DoitMoon22/status/1529970001251377152

It looks like the officers were there TO PREVENT parents from going into the school to save the lives of their daughters and sons.


67 posted on 05/26/2022 10:01:32 PM PDT by Arcadian Empire (The Baric-Daszak-Fauci spike protein, by itself, is deadly.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Arcadian Empire

68 posted on 05/26/2022 10:13:26 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 67 | View Replies]

To: Arcadian Empire

New world order is pleased to present this event! Yeah for them! Just need to corral opinion into cancelling 2A rights! Sure you love that too!


69 posted on 05/26/2022 10:20:23 PM PDT by antceecee
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 67 | View Replies]

To: Dick Bachert

👍


70 posted on 05/26/2022 11:34:40 PM PDT by TianaHighrider (God moved David to STAND UP to Goliath ❣)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 68 | View Replies]

To: joma89

On the bright side

Not much of a threat to armed determined civilians

Govt forces and assets sadly are another matter


71 posted on 05/26/2022 11:37:43 PM PDT by wardaddy (Where did all the same posters go......they cannot have all died ....could they ?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Born in 1950

More likely. Beat me to it.


72 posted on 05/27/2022 1:36:50 AM PDT by Rocco DiPippo (I)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: griffin

It’s not unusual for the police to do this.


73 posted on 05/27/2022 5:54:24 AM PDT by TakebackGOP
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 63 | View Replies]

To: Lurker

Why didn’t the local police surround the school with police cars, (protecting a police “infantry” behind the cars’ front engine-block compartments), swarm and distract the shooter using shotguns, and enter the school upon a given signal?

Then follow immediately with raising yellow police crime scene tape around the school?


74 posted on 05/27/2022 6:21:50 AM PDT by Does so (https//youtu.be/3PxEWB6W8ig ......Uke's Independence Day Parade. Anthem starts at 15:00)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: pangaea6

“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”School.

More incentive has to be built-in in for military to enter police departments.

Maybe start at the police department to encourage enlistment or ROTC, then health, pay, and pension benefits for military who
become street officers and Sergeants.


75 posted on 05/27/2022 6:34:00 AM PDT by Does so (https//youtu.be/3PxEWB6W8ig ......Uke's Independence Day Parade. Anthem starts at 15:00)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: TakebackGOP
It’s not unusual for the police to do this.

To prioritize their own safety and pension? You are correct.

76 posted on 05/27/2022 6:51:40 AM PDT by Mr.Unique (My boss wants me to sign up for a 401K. No way I'm running that far! )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 73 | View Replies]

To: Born in 1950

I just listened to a truther on Rumble who says he found websites that were opened two days prior to the shooting that ask for assistance for the victims and their families. I’m not shocked.


77 posted on 05/27/2022 6:56:20 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: TakebackGOP

Is there no one in your life that loves you enough to tell you how dumb you are?


78 posted on 05/27/2022 6:59:17 AM PDT by Mr.Unique (My boss wants me to sign up for a 401K. No way I'm running that far! )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: Mr.Unique

You don’t know how to manage areas with an active shooter dumbass. He could have killed every one of those parents. The police don’t want people in their way.


79 posted on 05/27/2022 7:12:43 AM PDT by TakebackGOP
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 78 | View Replies]

To: Born in 1950
What if the cops shot the parents when they went in?

That is a really good question

80 posted on 05/27/2022 7:19:36 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson