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.
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Correct. We don’t want to jump into the same logic the Left uses that the murderer who carried out the act of evil was not ultimately responsible.
But it is also becoming clear that “gun control” was not what would have prevented or deterred this from happening.
According to the article at the thread below, police stood in the hallway, assumed everyone in the classroom was dead, and figured they had the killer contained to one room.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4066768/posts
Officials admitted on Friday that nearly 20 officers stood in a hallway outside of the classrooms during the attack, believing any potential victims inside were already dead.
'Of course it was not the right decision. It was the wrong decision,' Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw said at a news conference.
The on-site commander 'was convinced at the time that there was no more threat to the children and that the subject was barricaded and that they had time to organize' to get into the classroom
Just... speechless.
I work in a public school (thank me later), and we have constant pd classes on safety and vigilance. Never, never would we prop open a door, even if it is sweltering or if we needed air. The only time we prop open doors is to let students in or out during arrivel or dismissal. We have the “man trap” system at our school also, we can only enter one area if the entrance behind us is closed.
We also had a very realistic pd active shooter simulation at our school, which helped us identify weak areas. And quite a few of my colleagues are gun owners, and agree on the ridiculousness of the gun free zone thing. We don’t have that here.
My school is located in a very wealthy blue area, btw. But, we still have some common sense left.
I wonder if this district just relaxed the rules bit by bit, because of the lack of school shootings in prior years?
Probably intentional. Part of the plan. Even if it was just plain stupidity the teacher should be facing charges for violating security and negligence leading to homicide. One count for each victim.
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.
I'm having trouble with all of the timelines. Other reports have said that the perp fired OUTSIDE the school for 12 minutes. This reads like he was inside the school within 5 minutes.
Those men in the hallway are going to be messed up for a long time.
When I was a kid it was a regular occurrence for teachers to prop open the classroom doors and windows the last month of the year to let fresh air inside on the warm, Spring days. It was a treat for the kids after a long year of school. Of course, this was the 1970s and 1980s when the country wasn’t so f***ed up like it is today.
‘terminal stupidity at its worst.’
not as stupid as thinking cloth facemasks were going to make us safe...
It sounds like your school has taken the right steps to keep you all safe.
Some emergency doors are set to alarm if someone opens them.
And just where did this 18 fast food worker vermin get the $ thousands to pay for ammo, two rifles, and body armor, hmmm?
‘All I can say is God have mercy on that teacher.’
if the teacher is an hispanic or black female, there will be no repercussions...
cops can breach any door if they want to.
Even if the hallway guys thot the shooting was over it HAD to occur to them that maybe there were living wounded. And there were. One thing that breaks my head is that 223 makes a lot of noise. And the shooting had not stopped. They had to know that. And we want the names of the depittys that got their own kids out without helping any others?
Most schools have some sort of PA system...
In this day and age I am surprised that door is not equipped with a card access system, where the teacher can swipe her badge to open it.
Hell, the place I worked at 20 years ago had that.
(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.)
Gunfire and 911 calls not convincing enough?
Here’s a story about a DIFFERENT door.
This little boy tells how his teacher was able to lock their classroom door. The key broke in the lock, and the killer shot through the door window, but he couldn’t get into the room.
He had two AR’s one was a .223 the other was the 5.6? Don’t know if thats the right number but it was the caliber the MIL. uses.
5.56
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