Posted on 06/21/2022 10:08:28 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi
The head of the Texas Department of Public Safety said Tuesday that Uvalde police could have stopped the mass shooting at Robb Elementary within three minutes, calling their response an "abject failure."
Testifying before a special Texas Senate committee hearing, Col. Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, told lawmakers that "There is compelling evidence that the law enforcement response to the attack at Robb Elementary was an abject failure and antithetical to everything we’ve learned over the last two decades since the Columbine massacre."
"The officers had weapons, while the children had none. The officers had body armor, the children had none. The officers had training, the subject had none," McCraw said Tuesday. "One hour, 14 minutes and eight seconds. That’s how long the children waited, and the teachers waited, in Room 111 to be rescued. And while they waited, the on-scene commander waited for radio and rifles. And he waited for shields, and he waited for SWAT. Lastly, he waited for a key that was never needed."
The classroom door, which Fox News Digital first reported was physically brought into the state capitol for Tuesday's hearing, was unlocked, but officers never even tried to open it, McCraw said.
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I din no.
it’s very relevant...
as i’ve said from the start, the terrorists are usually the ones standing up, shoot him thu a window from outside
It almost sounds like they were doing it this way on orders from higher up. The off-duty border patrol agent and father of one of the students blunted their impact at least somewhat.
The police chief, Pete Arredondo, who just took his seat on the city council after winning an election before the shooting.
Nobody has answered if he is a Democrat or Republican
“It almost sounds like they were doing it this way on orders from higher up.”
I am 95% certain that this is the case. But no one is asking that question. Just focus on the low level order followers and pay no attention to who was giving the orders to Pete/Pedro.
How? How do you stand outside hearing the gunshots, children screaming, and not do everything in your human power to save those babies? How?
There had to be some overwhelming order from above to stand down. Even then you are a COWARD to not disobey whatever order and save those children.
Cowards. Monsters. As bad as the shooter himself.
“”””I can’t imagine that the classroom wouldn’t have at least one window. At a minimum, the cops should have immediately fired tear gas through that window. And positioned a sniper outside. And then toss a flash grenade as the classroom door was breached.
It is beyond comprehension that none of this was done. Instead all those geared-up cops just stood around like movie actors on a break. Bless those Border Patrol guys who showed up, and took care of business.””””
I agree. And all of photos I have seen of the school is that the outside wall is about 3 feet high and then windows about to the top of the room.
You are so correct. A flash grenade and a couple of snipers at the outside windows would have taken the shooter out quickly.
I hear that he contributed to beto ...
This is why civilians need to be armed.
I am going to go so far as to say the police chief was in on the entire narrative. His stand down orders were part of the plan to make this shooting incident have great impact. Or at least he was following orders from somewhere else.
He should be charged with some kind of homicide charge for each and every dead child. The rest of the police were following orders, but that does not excuse them in my mind.
The chief lied about not having his radio, not being sure who was in charge and about the door being locked.
So far, this guy, Pete Arrendondo, deserves a public flogging followed by execution.
I think this is a case of incompetence looking like conspiracy.
I think he was really too stupid, too cowardly, and too panicked to come up with a tactical plan to engage the shooter. Sitting at a keyboard, the tactical responses are obvious - get men up to the classroom windows (outside and in the door) and smother him with bullets. But when your cops are looking at you for direction with blank clueless eyes, and there is gunfire in the background, it gets a lot harder.
“We were just following orders”.
One head should roll right now: the prolice chiefs. The buck stops with him, but there are a lot more all the way down.
That is really the bottom line for everyone else. And this event clearly proves that.
In fact in emergencies, about 85 percent of the time the first responders are not cops, but everyday "Citizens".
The on-scene commander, Pete Arrendondo, has now essentially been promoted. I realize the election happened before the event but it certainly looks like a promotion now.
Teachers in Israel tote rifles.....
The same way the left justifies abortion as "reproductive rights" and ballot creation as "voter rights." Our side simply doesn't understand their level of evil.
Orders from higher up are NOT needed in this, or similar situations.
Officers, or first responders, or armed citizens, must ACT immediately. Even it it puts you, the officer, or your job or pension, at risk. It is why citizens put those responsibilities on police, to wear the guns, get the training, DO THE JOB. Too many officers see themselves as little more than revenue agents, not there to “protect and serve”.
Any officer that was directly involved, including the chief, should be fired immediately. I strongly doubt any had the courage or fortitude to self-resign.
Just my humble opinion, of course.
They were so frighten that no one even tried the door??
The famous “Fight or Flight” instincts that almost all professions rescue workers or first responders ignore, the first cops on the scene at that door let Flight take them over.
Their training be damned.
What a painful world they must live in now.
Other people on this forum have asked that question and no logical response is forthcoming. Perhaps it’s a weak link in the narrative. Be on the lookout soon for an explanation about “the windows.”
For the last couple of weeks on most days there just haven’t been a lot of Uvalde articles posted. But today, man, there’s a bunch of them!
Uvalde needs to release all public records about this event asap. But they won’t. In fact they are fighting against the release of any public records via legal counsel.
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