[matt04]

Since when is any active shooter protocol call for trying to reach the shooter on a phone somewhere in the building and ask them to please stop?

[yldstrk]

uh, that’s the ticket........

[grey_whiskers]

Reminds me of certain scenes in the Sylvester Stallone movie Demolition Man.

[Zathras]

Someone heard it worked on “Die Hard”

[Obadiah]

Wait, did they not repeatedly tell us the chief thought this was a baracade and thus saw no need whatsoever of going in?

There is something really fishy about this whole episode. Lying. Repeatedly changing accounts. Something real unsettling about all this.

[Seruzawa]

Is this supposed to make us feel less contempt for the cowards standing in the parking lot.

[1Old Pro]

Since when is any active shooter protocol call for trying to reach the shooter on a phone somewhere in the building and ask them to please stop?

It's only appropriate when you have 19 armed Law enforcement officers cowering in a hallway with their knees knocking so vigorously that they are unable to walk.

[NWFree]

So much for social workers being cops what a waste of time 🤪

[DoughtyOne]

Was that a social worker by any chance?

[Boogieman]

Active Shooter ≠ Hostage Crisis

Even in a hostage situation, once they start shooting hostages, you stop trying to negotiate and start breaching.

[silverleaf]

Gee the negotiator did quick work looking up phone numbers

You’d almost think he had them beforehand

[Reno89519]

I’m still waiting to hear more about Salvador Ramos citizenship. It appears disputed that he was born in the US and that he was a US citizen. More likely an illegal alien, probably working for a cartel to afford the guns and ammo he had.

[Joe 6-pack]

Maybe the negotiator should have tried friending him on facebook.

[lewislynn]

Maybe if everyone there, including the legally armed citizens, started chanting: “don’t mess with Texas”, he would have stopped.

[Chewbarkah]

Trying to get the killer to surrender, thus getting in to save bleeding children sooner, sounds worth a call. Even unanswered calls might create a distraction/noise while the janitor unlocks the door prior to someone with guts rushing in/killing him.

[stanne]

Yep. I’ll bet those mothers were ready to ‘negotiate’ but the city govt would not allow it.

[roving]

They wanted to ask the shooter if he was about done.

[dadfly]

oh man. a simple bullhorn or the school’s intercom would have sufficed. again where is the common sense in these people?

[kiryandil]

How about frantically wading right in to the situation with a loaded piece instead?

[seowulf]

Negotiator:
OK. I know your angry, but could you not shoot anymore people?

[Tell It Right]

Don’t underestimate the fact that the shooter, as a Hispanic, was a person of color. Only God knows how many hours of diversity training the LEO’s had to go through to make sure they used kid gloves with POC even when lives are at stake.