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'He put the lives of officers before the lives of children': Texas' top cop issues blistering denouncement of Uvalde's police chief and calls him an 'abject failure' as he admits gunman could have been stopped in THREE MINUTES
DM ^ | UPDATED: 13:51 EDT, 21 June 2022 | ALEX HAMMER

Posted on 06/21/2022 11:05:08 AM PDT by conservative98

Speaking at a State Senate hearing Tuesday, Texas Department of Public Safety head Steve McCraw slammed police's response to the May 24 massacre as 'an abject failure,' and that there had been enough cops at the scene to stop the gunman just three minutes into the shooting.

'Three minutes after the subject entered the west hallway, there was sufficient number of armed officers wearing body armor, to isolate distract and neutralize the subject,' McCraw told the committee

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In another bombshell revelation, McCraw revealed that the door to the classroom that Ramos had been hiding behind had not been locked - contradicting earlier assertions from Arredondo's department that the chief had been trying to track down keys to open the classroom door.

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


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KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; arredondo; banglist; donutwatch; dps; jbt; nra; petearredondo; police; secondamendment; texas; uvalde
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To: conservative98

When you elect a local Demonicrat kakistocracy, you will likely end up with dead children.


21 posted on 06/21/2022 11:58:08 AM PDT by Carl Vehse (A proud member of the LGBFJB community)
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To: conservative98

FYI: I received the info below and have not attempted to verify same.
More oddities re: TX School Shooter, for your information:

He was an 18 year old who lived with his grandma. Had a part-time job at McDonald’s (8 hours a week), minimum wage. He dressed in expensive women’s clothes. He dropped out of school because he was obsessed with video games.

Had a Brand new expensive game console. A brand new F250 pickup “fully loaded.” His weapons: 2 Brand new Daniel Defense (brand) AR15/M4 rifles, with Military grade Optics. Each rifle is between $3,000 and $4000 dollars. Thousands of rounds of expensive Military grade ammunition. A thousand dollar bullet proof vest. All from a part time job at McDonald’s...?!?!?!?

Ford F250 Platinum $71,000.00

Game Console $500.00

Rifles $6000.00/$8,000.00

Optics $1000.00

Ammo $900.00

Body Armor $1000.00

TOTAL - $80,400.00………… On Minimum Wage ??!!

Seems to me SOMEONE WAS FUNDING HIM and training him as well... And oh - he just happens to have known the Buffalo shooter? Seriously?! Someone is TRAINING these so-called “shooters” .... And those rifles were EXACTLY like one of the rifles from the Las Vegas “shooter”.

EXACTLY — down to the optics, AND the vertical fore-grip. And that particular configuration is (legally) only available to “Military and Law Enforcement” ... the only conclusion one can arrive at is that there is someone TRAINING these miscreants so that our Second amendment can be ended.

And just before the NRA Convention, how timely...

Worth thinking about all this…..Is Soros this hateful ?


22 posted on 06/21/2022 12:20:33 PM PDT by chopperk
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To: conservative98

They could have...
But chose to arrest, taser and pepper spray the parents instead...


23 posted on 06/21/2022 12:21:26 PM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: conservative98

Open Questions. What is the latest on:
1) Killer’s source of money for weapons, optics, ammo, body armor=?
2) Whose F250 pickup was he driving? With or without permission? How did he have the keys?
3) How did he get the weapons home without anyone seeing them or knowing about them?
4) Did the killer have a juvenile or adult police record? He reportedly provoked lots of fights and abused pets horribly. No one ever reported that? What about high school discipline, incidents, and observations of staff there?
5) Was he a cross-dresser or not? This was supposedly debunked early on, but I’m still seeing references to it.
6) How did the killer walk right though the West Door, if a teacher supposedly closed it? Pics clearly show it to have panic hardware and an automatic closer. Was the door tested to see if it fails to lock when closed? Testing results?


24 posted on 06/21/2022 12:22:06 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: DesertRhino

My grandpa was a cop..
A sergeant...
Detroit Mounted Police..

We were talking about the riots many years ago.
He said to me...
“ Wanna know how to stop a riot?
Line up 12 men on horseback, and give them riot clubs. Start off at a slow walk towards the crowd, then gallop in, swinging that riot clubs back and forth thru the crowd. When you all get to the end, stop and turn the horses around. All that will be left of the riot will be people laying on the ground”.
A riot club was a 4’ nightstick, lead tipped.


25 posted on 06/21/2022 12:29:45 PM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: conservative98

McCraw is a good one.


26 posted on 06/21/2022 1:12:02 PM PDT by StolarStorm
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To: conservative98

This was a cartel hit on the families of border patrol agents. The Biden administration was complicit, and used their allies’ actions to try and disarm law abiding Americans.


27 posted on 06/21/2022 1:25:56 PM PDT by nagant
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To: Manly Warrior

Patton understood that.


28 posted on 06/21/2022 1:41:32 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Chewbarkah
It was a 2004-08 F-150. Supposedly his grandmother's.


29 posted on 06/21/2022 1:46:30 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: chopperk
FYI: I received the info below and have not attempted to verify same. More oddities re: TX School Shooter, for your information

Please site your sources when posting such unbelievable info. Thanks.
30 posted on 06/21/2022 2:08:41 PM PDT by know.your.why (If you dont watch the MSM you are uninformed. If you do watch the MSM you are misinformed.)
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To: chopperk

Grandma and Grandpa...that was who was funding him.


31 posted on 06/21/2022 2:19:56 PM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: MercyFlush
It’s time to defund and disband the Uvalde police and hand over the jurisdiction to the elected Sheriff and his department.

The Uvalde police department had nothing to do with the incident. It was under the jurisdiction of the Uvalde school district police department. The sherrif's department cannot legally step in and take over law enforcement duties in the school district. The people responsible for the deaths are the Uvalde school district police, and the Uvalde school district board of trustees.

32 posted on 06/21/2022 2:28:36 PM PDT by eastexsteve
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To: Chewbarkah

[Open Questions. What is the latest on:
1) Killer’s source of money for weapons, optics, ammo, body armor=?
2) Whose F250 pickup was he driving? With or without permission? How did he have the keys?
3) How did he get the weapons home without anyone seeing them or knowing about them?]


Don’t just ask questions. Put yourself in his shoes. How would you get access to these things? Be creative. You’re looking to kill a bunch of random kids, and prepared to go out guns blazing.

A guy like that would be too ethical to carjack someone, put one in his head, and dump his carcass somewhere remote. Heck, Eagle Scout that he is, he’d never stoop to taking grandma’s truck without her permission. In fact, this kid is such a gem, he wouldn’t drive grandma’s truck even if she handed him the keys, for fear of scratching it up. Nope - he’d rather walk or take the bus.

Given the way stone killers have a rigid code of ethics, he couldn’t possibly have robbed anyone, sold drugs or pawned grandma’s valuables. And even if he were so inclined, police departments have a 100% clearance rate for these crimes, so he’d be in prison instead of in the morgue.

Being the sweet kid he was, he not only paid grandma for room and board - he gave her his entire paycheck. No way Jose did he have a penny to spend on weaponry.

Some people are casual about taking on debt. Not this kid. Neither a borrower nor a lender be was his motto. It’s one thing to shoot up a school, and quite another to leave a credit card balance unpaid, since he’d either be on Death Row or in the morgue.

The real bottom line? Someone put him up to it and paid for everything. I blame Charles Schwab.


33 posted on 06/21/2022 2:29:41 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: conservative98

Lots of fault going around it seems, poor leadership (ignorance and cowardice?), failure to understand the lessons of prior shootings and the need for aggressive, dynamic entry, multi-agency confusion, the list goes on and on. But the one question I have from a macro perspective is the impact of years of seeing LE found personally liable when their agencies failed to defend them. You make a mistake being aggressive, and you lose everything, pension, job, even your personal freedom. George Floyd, Freddie Grey, Michae Brown, the list goes on ad nauseam. We have moved from immunity whenthe officer has the best intent and acts on it, to liability when a race hustler like Benjamin Crump takes the case and your agency folds up on you. When you doubt your agency has your back, you doubt the wisdom of making decision and punt upwards. What you tend to get eventually get are the SFPD drones who take reports and avoid any pursuit actions. LE is becomming less a great career than a lifetime course in minefield avoidance for a great pension.


34 posted on 06/21/2022 2:52:23 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Leaning Right

I’m reminded of a corollary to Murphy’s Law that says “Units that perform well on the parade ground don’t perform well on the battlefield; units that perform well on the battlefield don’t perform well on the parade ground.”


35 posted on 06/21/2022 3:26:17 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: kenmcg

Shhh, your’re stating another uncomfortable truth.

Those poor children. I weep for them. The fate of their little souls is not in doubt though.

How unbelievably awful. I have had these children on my mind since. It is one of those things you go to sleep with, wake in the night with and then wake with in your first thoughts.

How can these cops possibly live with themselves? I would have to kill myself. These are not men. They don’t even qualify as animals.

Even my old tomcat has compassion for a kitten.


36 posted on 06/21/2022 3:50:20 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: Sequoyah101

Totally agree. No idea how they live with themselves listening to them get killed. 🤮


37 posted on 06/21/2022 3:58:37 PM PDT by dkGba
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To: Leaning Right

That perfectly shows what photo ops are all about, selling an image. That’s it. The fact that there’s no substance behind the image is particularly evil for this one.


38 posted on 06/21/2022 5:45:39 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I wish “smart resume” would work for the real world so I could FF through the Burden admin BS.)
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To: chopperk

FYI: I received the info below and have not attempted to verify same.


39 posted on 06/21/2022 5:47:15 PM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: conservative98

Hundreds of millions of federal dollars will flow to Uvalde because of the dead kids. Just like happened at Parkland and Sandy Hook. My suggestion is to follow the money.

Love of money is a root of ALL evil.

How many people do you think you would need to test, before you found one who would agree to simply hold back while kids were murdered nearby, in exchange for a six or seven figure payout?


40 posted on 06/22/2022 12:36:02 AM PDT by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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