Posted on 03/29/2023 11:00:13 AM PDT by Morgana
The hero cops who stopped a transgender school shooter in Nashville are a Marine Corps veteran and an award-winning officer.
Michael Collazo, 31, and Rex Engelbert, 27, of the Nashville Metro Police, have been hailed heroes after taking down Audrey Hale, 28, on Monday after she had shot and killed six at The Covenant School.
Hale opened fire inside the small, church-run private elementary school on the outskirts of the city shortly before 10.13am. Dramatic bodycam footage showed Englebert and Collazo shooting her dead by 10.27am.
Collazo is a Marine Corps veteran who responded to the Christmas 2020 bombing, which also took place in Nashville, where Anthony Quinn Warner detonated a bomb downtown, killing himself and injuring eight others.
Collazo, a nine-year veteran of the force, is also a former firefighter and has previously served as a SWAT team paramedic. He has a young daughter, according to Fox News.
The Nashville native had joined the Marine Corps directly out of high school and is said to have relied on his military training throughout the active shooter situation, his older sister Deanna Collazo DeHart told Fox News.
'He really does love his job. When I sit and think about all the training and all the different classes that he does, and all the family events that he's had to miss because of training or leaving to go through this training or this class… it all really does pay off,' she said.
'[He's] obviously very brave, braver than I've ever imagined,' she said. 'To see the bravery of all of them just storming and clearing the rooms is absolutely phenomenal.'
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They saved precious lives that day.
We toss the word hero around too much, but these guys deserve to be called heroes, they earned it.
Sad that we have to go to the British press to get the full story. Our Pravda media just spins the truth to fit the Democrat Marxist narrative that cops are evil and trans killers are poor, misunderstood, and persecuted souls.
You won’t see this on Twatter or Fakebook.
THIS is why police departments should hire Marines!
Well....she got “transformed” alright.
Ditto.
They not only saved lives they dealt a nice counter blow to the moonbats’ narrative on school shooting. Major heroes.
"Unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood," a maddened Lady Macbeth rants. Audrey had unsexed herself to carry out the kind of rampage that traditionally only a man would have been ready to conduct. The multiple weapons, the manifesto, and the facility plans reflect the kind of attacks that young male mass shooters have carried out in the past. Audrey could never change her 'sex', but like Lady Macbeth she could commit traditionally male crimes by using cruelty to 'unsex' herself. Much like men who pretend to be women become insulting caricatures, all high heels, lipstick and shrill giggles, Audrey's Lady Macbeth became a horrifying caricature of a man, brutal, violent and insane.The majority of Audrey's six victims were women and little girls. That is likely no coincidence.
Hating her own sex, Audrey set out to destroy women and girls as she had destroyed her own femininity. Transgender serial killers like Douglas/Donna Perry, Jeffrey Gorton and Hadden Clark have often targeted women and girls, but Audrey was not a man who wanted to be a woman. She was a woman who had been taught to hate being a woman with the same ultimate results written in blood on the carpeted floors of a church school until it was ended by real men."
- Daniel Greenfield, Front Page Magazine
Yup-—dang. It was amazing how fluid, quick and precise they were.
the conspiracy theorist part of my brain is twitching again,
after all the false flaggery and weirdness (like the Vegas massacre and fast and furious for example) I can't help it
amazing huh
A new found respect——Like I said, I was absolutely glued to the video. If I didn’t know how it ended I probably would have “changed the channel” due to high “suspense”. They truly are selfless heroes!
GREAT work gentlemen!
Yeah, pixilated faces is a recent phenomenon.
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