Posted on 05/27/2022 3:05:40 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
As more details emerge about the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, it’s becoming hard not to conclude the worst about the local police response: Uvalde cops apparently stood aside and did nothing while the shooter killed 19 school children and two teachers inside a classroom.
A shocking news conference on Friday revealed that more than an hour passed after the shooting began and before an elite team of Border Patrol agents, whom Uvalde police had prevented from storming the classroom earlier, decided to ignore those orders and confront the gunman, ending the massacre.
During this time, about 78 minutes, as many as 19 police officers were reportedly in the hallway outside the classroom, while multiple students inside the classroom called 911 begging for the police to be sent in. But none came.
At the news conference, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw said the on-scene commander mistakenly believed that the shooter had barricaded himself in the classroom and that “there were no kids at risk,” which is just a euphemism for believing that all the kids in the classroom had already been killed. Pressed on this by reporters in a series of tense exchanges, McCraw at one point said, “From the benefit of hindsight where I’m sitting now, of course it was not the right decision. It was the wrong decision. Period.”
Who made that decision? McCraw said that the on-scene commander was the chief of police of the Uvalde school district, a man named Pete Arredondo. Chief Arredondo was not at the press conference, and no one has heard from him since Tuesday.
How Chief Arredondo could have possibly concluded that there were no children at risk and that this was not an “active shooter situation,” while 911 calls were coming from kids inside the classroom with...
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A tragedy of errors.
This whole incident doesn’t pass the smell test.
And why hasn’t this made headlines?????https://republicbrief.com/teen-who-knew-uvalde-shooter-drops-bomb-about-him/
The ones fired in Florida must have moved to TX
Ummmm.
Anyone in "authority" who offers to take the guns of law-abiding citizens "by law" can now be considered to be a direct threat to that citizen's life, and to the lives of his or her loved ones.
Plan accordingly.
Or liability. Suppose a police officer ran in and accidentally shot a child.
It appears Ramos was a bully and would pick on the most vulnerable. He certainly did that.
This is so heartbreaking in many ways. Those poor little ones went through hell.
Thanks for posting this.
Spiraling clockwise at a faster pace. 🚽
“Or liability. Suppose a police officer ran in and accidentally shot a child”.
“Suppose” doesn’t fly. Those children needed to be saved.
>> This whole incident doesn’t pass the smell test.
Agreed, it doesn’t.
I believe Senator Schumer had a heads-up on the problems with this tragic situation, and that’s why he put the brakes on his effort to use it to pass a new round of anti-Constitutional laws.
none of those cops EX-Military???
maneuver and fire...
Sounds very stylish.
“Serve and Protect.”
Unless it’s just too darn dangerous. Sorry kids, you’re on your own.
Cowards.
An error is not carrying the one in a math problem.
This was cowardice added to incompetence that led to the deaths of 21 people. Criminal charges need to be laid against the entire chain of command for malfeasance of duty and negligent homicide.
Toss a few of them in prison for a couple of decades and maybe, just maybe, some people will learn something from this.
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Back the Yellow
Let’s not talk about the unlocked door, or the lack of security personnel inside the school. Or that the shooter was hispanic, not a “white hispanic” like George Zimmerman, because those things don’t fit the media’s narrative. It’s all about the “failures” of the cops.
Charge Arredildo with 19 counts of 2nd degree manslaughter...
Is this guy a citizen?
There is plenty of access to space at Lake Mead to hold another barrel...
Agree. Something is wrong here.
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