Posted on 06/03/2022 2:23:20 PM PDT by conservative98
The great sin in what happened in Texas is that an 18-year-old with murder in his heart walked into a public school and shot to death 19 kids and two teachers. The great shock is what the police did—their incompetence on the scene and apparent lies afterward. This aspect has rocked the American people.
Uvalde wasn’t an “apparent law-enforcement failure.” It is the biggest law-enforcement scandal since George Floyd, and therefore one of the biggest in U.S. history. Children, some already shot, some not, were trapped in adjoining classrooms. As many as 19 cops were gathered in the hall just outside. The Washington Post timeline has the killer roaming the classrooms: “The attack went for so long, witnesses said, that the gunman had time to taunt his victims before killing them, even putting on songs that one student described to CNN as ‘I-want-people-to-die music.’ ”
Students inside were calling 911 and begging for help. The officers failed to move for almost an hour.
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The commander on scene, school district police chief Pete Arredondo, hasn’t given a public statement on what went wrong. Why is he allowed not to tell the public what happened? He didn’t take reporters’ questions until cornered Wednesday by CNN’s Shimon Prokupecz. Mr. Arredondo was evasive. Reports he’s stiff-arming investigators are wrong, he said; he’s in touch with them and he’ll have more to say but not now. Then, in fatherly tones: “We’re not going to release anything. We have people in our community being buried. So we’re going to be respectful.”
A better form of respect would have been stopping the guy who left them grieving their dead children.
What I fear is a final report issued in six months or a year that will hit all the smarmy rhetorical notes—
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Thank You!
I’m so tired of reading that crap.
The saturation of “the police are bad” stories in the media have been non-stop for years now. The agenda is clear - “Let’s make everybody hate cops!” It’s working, but I don’t think anyone ragging on the (alleged) lack of police response wants to inhabit a world without law enforcement, or with federally-controlled local police, kind of like TSA agents but worse. Think it can’t happen? God help us.
People get so caught up in the emotional moment that they forget that law enforcement personnel are trained to respond in dangerous situations. They’re not perfect, but they’re human beings who chose a profession that they know puts them in harms way.
The events, the stories are crafted to get maximum emotional response.
They want police, just not local police, but a National Police Force taking orders from DNC Headquarters.
I am just relieved to know I am not alone in recognizing the leftist spew.
I was starting to worry that FR was circling the drain. There are some real knobs on here.
If we know our overlords, they’ve got the plan ready to go.
I pray that GOD will soon grant the wisdom to a dedicated majority that will clean out the detritus that's a distraction to American greatness and an existential threat to all of us.
NO ! Prison for life or executed. They should lose everything dear to them.
Sorry, I’ll have to disagree. This is too similar to other mass school shootings, where the cops waited outside until everyone was dead before entering the building.
Its possible to be pro-cop and still recognize instances where they have missed the mark. Even, as in this case, shamefully so.
Remember, they want you to give up your guns and trust the cops to protect you. But, as they say, when seconds count, the cops are just 58 minutes away.
I haven’t seen anyone mention the 2016 pulse nightclub massacre. 49 people murdered as police took over three hours to breach building and neutralize the killer. Police claimed lessons learned based on other mass shootings ,that “officers can minimize casualties only by entering shooting location expeditiously , even if it means putting themselves at great risk.” I think they said same thing after columbine in 1999. I guess they have poor institutional memory.
These were school police. About as good as the safety patrol I was seargent of when I was in the 6th grade.
They are like TSA in the airports. Really brave against the cowed public, having absolute power, but never expecting to go up against any dangerous adversaries.
DPS, Sheriff’s deputies, and city policemen I know would have ignored the fall back order and gone in and stopped.
I thought it was four agents who went in?
One holding a shield. One of them took a graze wound to the head.
I read that there were 19 "policemen" in the hall of the school. There were only four school cops total on the school force. Not counting the coward in chief.
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