Posted on 05/25/2022 7:51:51 PM PDT by mooncoin
— Frustrated onlookers urged police officers to charge into the Texas elementary school where a gunman’s rampage killed 19 children and two teachers, witnesses said Wednesday, as investigators worked to track the massacre that lasted upwards of 40 minutes and ended when the 18-year-old shooter was killed by a Border Patrol team.
“Go in there! Go in there!” nearby women shouted at the officers soon after the attack began, said Juan Carranza, 24, who saw the scene from outside his house, across the street from Robb Elementary School in the close-knit town of Uvalde. Carranza said the officers did not go in.
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Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw said 40 minutes to an hour elapsed from when Ramos opened fire on the school security officer and when the SWAT-like Border Patrol team shot him. But a department spokesman said later in the day that they could not give a solid estimate of how long the gunman was in the school or when he was killed.
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Onlookers yelled at them to go in. They didn’t. One parent urged bystanders:
“Let’s just rush in because the cops aren’t doing anything like they are supposed to.”
Sounds like the last time 🤪
“We waited for the shooting to stop”
Who remembers that brilliant strategy from, oh, Columbine?
So, was the hero who killed the guy so off duty guy who just showed up or part of the SWAT team that finally showed up? Sounds like the latter.
I don’t blame the officers even a little - they have to follow proceedures no thanks to the restrictions they have tied around their necks.
Now they go home sleeping with 20 dead people on their conscience.
HOGWASH!
How did the shooter get in the school?
No they don’t - not in the least - they have no reason to.
And Parkland.
For shame, Texas. For shame.
This delay was either Trump’s fault or caused by racism. The MSM will decide later.
Wow, they did not go in? This is shocking news. Seriously. resign now!
Hogwash. No way is that the correct view.
Who gave the stand down order?
At any rate this is going to continue to happen in our country no matter how hard things are tried to prevent it. If it's not a school, a mall, a grocery store, a company, or people gathered for a concert ....these “shooters” are out there just waiting and planning for when they do their deed.
Unfortunately when it's kids in a school it's esepcially difficult.
Saw A guy who went into a store with bows and arrows and hit five people. Go figure.
reminds me of the Pulse night club? where the cops waited
3 hours to go in
Where did the poor and unemployed kid get money to buy some very nice rifles?
Cops have zero allies. It’s as if that’s what they want.
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