Posted on 07/18/2022 8:40:32 AM PDT by conservative98
The mother who saved her children during the Uvalde, Texas, elementary school shooting has a message to police officers who she blames for their inaction and for holding back parents: "Turn in your badge."
Angeli-Rose Gomez, placed in handcuffs outside Robb Elementary School on May 24 before hopping a fence and pulling her two sons out of the building herself, spoke with Fox News Digital last week — before a scathing 77-page report was released Sunday noting "systemic failures and egregiously poor decision-making" on behalf of law enforcement responding to the active shooting situation.
Despite a robust response of at least 376 law enforcement officers, the new report notes a chaotic and uncoordinated scene, stressing how police officials prioritized their own safety over the lives of students and teachers and waited more than an hour to confront 18-year-old gunman Salvador Ramos.
"Message to the cops: turn in your badge, this isn’t the job for you, you aren’t willing to protect and serve. If you can’t own up to your job, turn in your badge. You let everyone down," Gomez told Fox News Digital. "All need to turn in their badge. All the cops mistreating us outside need to be punished. If they would’ve just left all the parents would’ve done way more than they would’ve done."
"I don’t know where I got that bravery," she added. "I just kept thinking I am not going to stand here and wait for my kids to die and wait for them to tell me hours later that my kid is dead."
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No leadership or Woke leadership
Every one of those cowards should be fired.
The ought to make her the Chief of the school police.
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Then the police threatened her afterwards for speaking to the media.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/uvalde-mother-rescue-kids-shooting-harassed-police-lawyer
I was going to say that maybe the cops should become firemen... But running into a burning building may be a little much for these guys. Maybe the fast food industry would be a better fit.
Most of them look like they eat a lot of fast food.
> Then the police threatened her afterwards for speaking to the media.<
Yep. But she’s not backing down. Ms. Gomez is an amazing person. Folks like her used to be the norm in this country. Not any more, unfortunately.
So not all first responders are willing to lay their life on the line? The fact is that no profession has a monopoly on virtue or cowardice.
Watching the video I couldn’t help but wonder how many of the 19 kids might have died by bleeding out while the police were twiddling their thumbs. That video is very damning to the police, and a lesson should be learned when watching it. We’re on our own!
Rosa Parks Gomez
Government employees tend to pass the time with as little effort as possible, maintain the status quo and collect a paycheck. Police are government employees.
Now they are attacking the Mom who ran in and saved her two kids.
Their actions are almost as evil as their actions during the shooting, for which they should be treated not just as cowards, but as accessories to murder!
If they would’ve just left all the parents would’ve done way more than they would’ve done."
After seeing the video of them standing there while he is inside the classroom shooting I can’t disagree with her.
I mean it’s not a natural thing to as far as running towards the gun shots. Or if they are shooting at you it’s more natural to get away and be safe.
But when your trained to run towards it and protect and thats your job and your getting paid to do it then that’s what you do. And they failed. Not just 2 cops. It starts at the top with the leader apparently telling them to stand down. I think there may have been some that would have went straight in. Especially after the first few ran after being shot at. And the idiot that came over and got some hand sanitizer is just a slap in the face. These parents want there kids safe and if you don’t go in then move out of the way..
Twenty-three years since Columbine to get prepared and trained and to have established policies, procedures and practices for effectively dealing with this sort of thing.
Turn in your badges, indeed.
All Uvalde police should go home, put their service weapon in their mouth and pull the trigger.
Her troubles with useless bureaucrats in uniforms has just begun. In the eyes of bureaucrats, a school shooting enforces their budgets, authority, and political agendas. It’s a net gain in every case the way they see it. Much like radical Muslims who use their children as human explosives. No difference.
I’m surprised they didn’t shoot her?
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