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Authorities say security video shows the back door of Texas school was propped open by a teacher just before the gunman attacked the school
MSN ^ | May 27, 2022 | Jake Epstein

Posted on 05/27/2022 1:45:26 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes

Security footage from Robb Elementary School in Texas shows that a back door was propped open by a teacher before Tuesday's deadly mass shooting, Texas law enforcement officials said.

At 11:27 a.m. on Tuesday morning, the door that police believe was used by the 18-year-old gunman to enter the school was propped open by a teacher, Director of Texas Department of Public Safety Steven McCraw said at a Friday press conference.

McCraw said the detail was confirmed through "video evidence."

After the gunman crashed his vehicle in a ditch just a minute later, the teacher ran to get a phone and walked back to the propped-open door.

Two men at a nearby funeral home heard the crash and went to the scene, only to find the gunman exit the vehicle. The men ran as they were shot at, but were not hit.

Through security footage inside the school, McGraw said the teacher panicked and called police at 11:30 a.m. to report the crash and gunman.

Eventually, at 11:33 a.m. the gunman entered the school through the door, barricaded himself inside a classroom and massacred 19 children and two adults.

McCraw said police who arrived at the scene were told by a commander not to engage with the shooter because they believed there was no more threat to children.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: arth; banglist; donutwatch; education; school; texas; texascops; texasleo; uvalde
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To: Tired of Taxes

Okay - so why was the door unlocked? Who unlocked it?

Still a breach of security protocol.


121 posted on 05/31/2022 9:08:34 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Tired of Taxes

So who had disabled the lock?

Some custodian?

Or some operative?

Strange how “mass shootings” coincide with fresh dirt appearing on the Clintons.


122 posted on 05/31/2022 9:09:10 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Lurker

Lead to the head, repeat until dead.


123 posted on 05/31/2022 9:10:54 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Okay - so why was the door unlocked? Who unlocked it?


Pure speculation here, but... Apparently (but who knows, what we’re being told seems to change quickly) grandma worked as an aide at the school. After shooting her, the murderer takes her keys. After all, he took her truck. Using her keys, he unlocks the door. Same keys might have gotten him into the classrooms where he killed the kids and the teachers.


124 posted on 05/31/2022 9:19:39 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: lightman; Republican Wildcat

Good question. Maybe the door was always left unlocked...?


125 posted on 05/31/2022 9:30:49 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: lightman; Republican Wildcat

Scratch that... If the door was always left unlocked, she wouldn’t have thought to prop it open.


126 posted on 05/31/2022 9:32:05 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: Tired of Taxes

Knowing something about the style of lock would be helpful. I assume it is just a normal lock. If you don’t lock it then it won’t be locked. Of course there is good chance the door was rigged.


127 posted on 05/31/2022 10:48:18 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Revel

Fire door lock. Surely the schools you went to had doors with automatic closure arms (located at top on hinge side) and a “quick-opening bar” running across the whole door around waist height that when depressed unlatches the door (inside only...cannot be opened from outside). If the closure arm doesn’t exert enough pressure, the door might not re-latch. A slight manual pull will force the door to re-latch.


128 posted on 05/31/2022 11:32:13 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog (Not Responding to Seagull Snark)
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I find it hard to believe that any adult didn’t already have their phone with them in the school during the day.

This claim that she had to go out to her car to retrieve her phone doesn’t ring true.

If you heard gunshots outside the school building, then what the heck would you run OUT of the building for into a known active shooter situation?

129 posted on 06/01/2022 12:21:25 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: Revel

It might be a door with a bar handle, the kind you push to exit. If it’s locked, it shouldn’t open from the outside. If it’s unlocked, the person who closes it from the inside might not know it’s unlocked. Since she propped open the door at first, she must’ve thought it was locked.

Or... maybe the door was set to lock, and she thought she closed it all the way, but it didn’t close. Who knows.

Or... maybe it’s a completely different kind of door. We’ll find out soon, I guess.


130 posted on 06/01/2022 1:38:12 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: Tired of Taxes
We did verify she closed the door. The door did not lock

I feel like a dentist, it's like pulling teeth getting answers. O.K., so the door didn't lock... WHY didn't the door lock? Unlocked is basically the same as open.

131 posted on 06/01/2022 5:31:55 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Tired of Taxes

My guess is door closed, but not all the way and didn’t lock. What a coincidence..


132 posted on 06/01/2022 5:31:59 AM PDT by pnz1 ("These people have gone stone-cold crazy")
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To: Tired of Taxes

our society is rotten, from the inside out. Our institutions are full of self-absorbed, pagan cowards and check takers.


133 posted on 06/01/2022 7:27:25 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: NWFree
Because they’re responsible for the security of the kids under their care - that’s why 🤪

Well, yeah. Except they aren't.

Teachers are nearly all leftist "make a difference" types; union hacks that hate parents. They are Government employees, just like the incompetent police force. Super great at everything except doing their actual jobs and producing results. FAIL

134 posted on 06/01/2022 7:43:04 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: Tired of Taxes

The video shows the murderer entering an open door.

Believe your eyes.


135 posted on 06/01/2022 9:10:18 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: Wonder Warthog

There were no alarms on any doors when I went to school. The main doors had a kind of bar, but not all of the side doors. Those however were not for student use.


136 posted on 06/01/2022 12:11:56 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Revel
"There were no alarms on any doors when I went to school. The main doors had a kind of bar, but not all of the side doors."

Heh...given that I went to school in the 50's and 60's, and in a school that was so rural that it had 300 students in 12 grades, I'm not sure the technology even existed...

But every door was a self-locking bar door, and it was easy to lock yourself out.

137 posted on 06/01/2022 1:46:40 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog (Not Responding to Seagull Snark)
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To: Tired of Taxes

I don’t see, in your linked DB article, where it says the teachers were notified by email, that they were on lock down.

Have they (DB) removed that? What time did they receive said email?

Thx.


138 posted on 06/01/2022 2:33:47 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: 1Old Pro

It always seems to happen this way with news stories. First, we’re given little pieces of information. Then we find out the information was wrong.


139 posted on 06/01/2022 4:48:12 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: Jane Long

Sorry for the confusion... If I recall correctly, another article mentioned one of the murdered classroom teachers received a notification on her cell phone that the killer was in the building.

I will search for that article tonight - it’s possible I misunderstood it - and I’ll respond later.


140 posted on 06/01/2022 5:32:50 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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