Onlookers urged police to charge into Texas school

AP ^ | 5/26/22 | JAKE BLEIBERG, JIM VERTUNO

[JonPreston]

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — 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.

[JonPreston]

The initial reporting of this was unusual. IIRC, the first report of this crime said 2 people were killed. Some hours later we learned the extent of the crime.

[Sans-Culotte]

I saw another thread on FR in which someone posted that the shooter had 90 minutes to do his killing. This sounds like a Parkland redux in which LE’s “sheltered in place”.

[z3n]

“The initial reporting of this was unusual”

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For more than 24 hours, I never heard anyone in the media discuss how long it took to take him out. Some clips I saw from pressers were not specific but seemed misleading that they moved in within minutes. In stead I think they used the word “responded”. I think they were doing damage control right from the beginning

[Pollard]

https://freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=Onlookers%20urged%20police%20to%20charge%20into%20Texas%20school

[butlerweave]

They were ordered to let the killer do his job ?

[1Old Pro]

40 minutes before anyone entered the building - problem number one.

Unlocked back school door - problem number two

screwed up kid with a drug addicted mother who had a live in boyfriend and his grandfather is a felon so he had no normal home life - problem number 3

School personnel knew he was cutting his face up, not showing up, and nothing was done - problem number 4.

[WMarshal]

I am sure that there were much stronger words used to motivate the cowards. They probably only went in out of shame. You would think with the fat pensions they get that they would be a bit braver.

[ConservativeMind]

Hey, the police don't wanna get hurt, so they wait until the perp exhausts all of their rounds, then go in.

It's not like police are there to stop crime. Remember, it's a “show of force.”

[marktwain]

He wounded the school resource officer and two police officers right off, it appears. That made the rest hesitant, perhaps.

[Salman]

Sounds like they were ordered to stand down and let it happen. Why?

[JonPreston]

This sounds like a Parkland redux in which LE’s “sheltered in place”.

Exactly. And why authorities initially trip over their feet to call them heroes is beyond me.

[DuncanWaring]

Parkland ... and Columbine.

[Spktyr]

Problem 5: Kid had been bullied for years and the school personnel did *nothing*.

[Nifster]

Onlookers didn’t charge in

Police don’t just run in. Not the way they’re trained

[Pollard]

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1529652093354536961.html

Cops with full tactical gear preventing parents from going in themselves.

[Dilbert San Diego]

You hate police?

[1Old Pro]

Problem 5: Kid had been bullied for years and the school personnel did *nothing*.

All those social workers and nothing done, terrible shame.

[Nifster]

Beyond crass

[Nifster]

Citation please

[Guenevere]

Indeed!
Citation, verify!