Posted on 05/27/2022 7:17:43 AM PDT by TigerClaws
A Texas Department of Public Safety official said responding officers were cautious as they entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas because “they could’ve been shot.”
Nineteen children and two teachers were murdered after authorities say an 18-year-old male entered with a rifle 12 minutes after he crashed a car near campus.
The New York Times reported the shooter was inside the school for about an hour before officers finally breached the classroom he was in and shot and killed him.
Reporters demanded answers during a contentious press conference Thursday afternoon. State law enforcement officials addressed the public a day after some parents with children in the school said they were prevented from going in by officers.
One girl inside the room reportedly bled for an hour after she was shot. She died at a hospital. It is unknown if that hour might have saved her life.
On Thursday’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, the host discussed the Tuesday’s horrifying events with DPS Lt. Chris Olivarez.
Blitzer asked his guest if officers at the scene made the correct choice to wait for backup before they went after the gunman.
Olivarez said officers were inside the school quickly, and they heard gunfire when they arrived. They called for reinforcements, he said. The officers in the building waited for a special tactical team to show up as they isolated the shooter to one classroom.
“Don’t current best practices, don’t they call for officers to disable a shooter as quickly as possible, regardless of how many officers are actually on site?” Blitzer asked him.
Olivarez said the officers who arrived at the school quickly might have been shot had they attempted to take out the gunman alone. He said,
The active shooter situation, you want to stop the killing, you want to preserve life, but also one thing that – of course, the American people need to understand — that officers are making entry into this building. They do not know where the gunman is. They are hearing gunshots.They are receiving gunshots. At that point, if they proceeded any further not knowing where the suspect was at, they could’ve been shot, they could’ve been killed, and that gunman would have had an opportunity to kill other people inside that school.
Fire the whole damn force!
But you just know they’d have had no problems rushing a house where they thought there was a couple of pot plants growing and there’d be some of that sweet, sweet, forfeiture money.
‘They Could’ve Been Shot’ ??
Seriously?
They are in the wrong business, then
These idiots aren’t as brave as the actor idiots who portray them every night on TV when they’re not crawling in bed with a same sexer.
On the face of it, they failed to serve.
On the face of it, they failed to protect.
NO amount of truth about malfeasance cuts the mustard anymore.
We have thousands of patriots that have been purged from the armed forces for postings on social media and refusal to clot shot,,,
,, that were infantry, have actually been under fire and been shot at,,
,, these men are worth their weight in gold,,,
,,, and would be great school guards.
Enough for every school in the nation I bet.
Just sayin.
Those poor kids and their teachers were being slaughtered over a period of 60-90 minutes while the cops scurried around for cover outside and made a ‘plan’. That’s what it appears to be at this point. I can’t imagine the horror and fear inside that classroom. Incomprehensible.
Not a parallel situation but - a few years ago we asked the local police to provide an officer to stop traffic on a busy road to allow safe crossing for a family bike ride event. Request Denied. Asked for a meeting with the chief, he sent a deputy chief who said it was too dangerous for officers to provide traffic control and would not give an inch. Appealed to the city council who backed up the police decision, and started yammmering about high insurance costs.
This is the definition of “protect and serve” nowadays: risk aversion and cover thy ass.
“So many conflicting reports on what the cops did, something is very wrong here.”
Yeah, I’m not believing anything right now, either.
This is going to enable BLM and the defund the police crowd. The blowback from this may even hurt us in November.
Dangerous times indeed.
The snowflake cowards need to resign.
Being a cop should be a calling. People who follow a calling make a lot of sacrifices in their lives. If you don’t have that calling you should never ever be a cop. Without that calling and desire to serve you will always choose to do the safe thing so you can make it home to your family at the end of the day. To these people its just a job. Being a cop is not just a job. Much like being a firefighter or a minister is not just a job. There is so much more to it than getting your paycheck and going home to wife and kids.
These guys who were cowards and decided they rather go home to wife and kids than save the lives of these other little kids have no business being cops and should be removed from duty.
FLIR scopes, geniuses. You’ve got a fully equipped SWAT team, Federal Marshals and nobody has a ballistic shield or a FLIR scope.
And now the LT is saying, “They could have been shot.”
You mean, shot going in and rescuing their own kids? Because they DID go in successfully and do that.
In fact THEY FAILED to restrain an unarmed mother who went in and DID THE SAME THING. Found her kids and got them out - no vest or gun - just balls.
LT, you can always become a florist. Time to study up, coward.
Many of these folks weren’t cops, they were social workers pretending to be cops.
Dont be surprised if the good.citizens of Uvalde find a way to take revenge. Small town where this incident affected many of itz citizens one way or another.
They want their fancy military gear. But they are nothing like the military. At all.
I don’t even want to think about it.
Those poor kids who were the last to be shot saw it all and knew their turn was coming. It’s beyond a nightmare scenario.
18 minutes is about the same time as a donut run.
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