SWAT happened? Did Uvalde tactical unit respond to Texas school shooting?

NY Post ^ | May 28, 2022 5:58pm | Eileen AJ Connelly

[conservative98]

Two years before the massacre at Robb Elementary School that left 19 fourth-graders and their two teachers dead, the Uvalde Police Department boasted online about having its own SWAT team.

The department posted a picture on Facebook of nine heavily armed officers with the caption “Meet Our SWAT Team.”

The unit was making visits throughout the community that day “to familiarize themselves with layouts of our local schools and businesses,” according to the February 2020 post.

But when terror came to the tiny Texas town, it’s not clear if the tactical unit that seemingly trained for just such a moment turned out to respond, a law enforcement source said.

[conservative98]

The Uvalde Police Department bragged online about having its own SWAT team two years before the shooting at Robb Elementary School. Facebook/Uvalde Police Department

[Lazamataz]

Apparently it is more important to actually show up and fight, then it is to dress cool and pose for photos.

[frogjerk]

This just gets worse and worse.

[Kartographer]

No one seems to know the answer to my question: where was Uvalde County Sheriff Ruben Nolasco during all of this?

[Newtoidaho]

I’m guessing the local donut shop was pretty full that morning.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I am going to say something very cynical but, as far as I can tell, very true.

Having a SWAT means less actual policing.

[samadams2000]

When someone is shooting children it should not be viewed as a hostage situation. Seems a training, command, and equipment problem.

[Paladin2]

The old skool American Way was to just do and move on. [Trump not withstanding]

[SaveFerris]

Yep

[Hambone 1934]

we now know it’s more important to take pictures looking tough,than actually being tough...Cowardice means you go home at night....

[SaveFerris]

(dress cool and pose for photos)

Way safer than engaging the transvestite apparently. By somebody’s order.

[MHGinTN]

Laz has the timeline, but there were ballistic shields on site thirty minutes before the brave officers finally went after the murderous scumbag.

[KarlInOhio]

Do they have a real SWAT unit, or is it just the entire police department putting on some tacti-cool equipment when they get pulled off their profitable ticket writing duty?

[Jonty30]

Basically it was a failure of leadership.
They didn’t have somebody to direct them is what happened and they are trained to follow directions.

[Paladin2]

Individual initiative used to be The American Way...

[Presbyterian Reporter]

“””This just gets worse and worse.”””

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Nothing surprises me these days when ‘government’ is involved.

It seems that corruption and incompetence are commonplace.

[SaveFerris]

(thirty minutes before)

Unbelievable

[ETCM]

It’s a small town of 15,000. How large a police department do they have? That’s got to be at least half of it.

[Flick Lives]

A nine unit SWAT team, but when it all went down, it was one off duty border patrol agent who faced the gunman alone.