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Investigation Ordered by City of Uvalde Exonerates Police (and Parents Are Outraged)
Hot Air ^ | March 08, 2024 | John Sexton

Posted on 03/09/2024 5:07:54 AM PST by george76

There's only so much outrage left in the tank on a sunny Friday afternoon, but wow this is just insane in the membrane. An independent investigation into the school shooting at Robb Elementary school in Uvalde, Texas was commissioned by the city of Uvalde in 2022. Yesterday, the results of the investigation were released to the public during a city council meeting. The gist of the new report is that police on the scene did nothing wrong.

Former Austin Police Department detective Jesse Prado examined the actions of each Uvalde police officer as they responded to the deadliest school shooting in Texas history on May 24, 2022.

The report recommends that each police officer should be “exonerated,” stating in most of their cases: “No evidence of serious acts of misconduct in direct violation of Uvalde Police Department’s policies was found in his behavior in response to the incident. I find that (this officer) acted in good faith.”

The report was prepared by a former police detective name Jesse Prado to help defend the city from an influx of lawsuits. So it makes sense that it basically finds no real errors on the part of the police. It does contain a section of recommendations which suggests that, in future, police should attempt to kill a mass shooter: I haven't read the report itself but I'm struggling to understand how this would not constitute a failure by the officers on hand given that they all received training in which they were specifically taught that this was a best practice for dealing with an active shooter.

“Officers responding to an active shooter incident must continually seek to eliminate the threat and enable victim response,” one recommendation read. “An active shooter with access to victims should never be considered and treated as a barricaded subject.”

Prado also concluded that he believed the assessment of Paul Guerrero, the acting commander of the Border Patrol tactical team, who said he thought the door of the classroom where the shooting took place was locked. The report detailed many attempts by officers to get keys to unlock doors inside the school, delaying efforts to get inside classrooms.

Both the previous Justice Department report and the investigation by state lawmakers have doubted the door was ever locked.

There are at least three reports that say the door where the gunman was hiding was not locked. So it's true that police spent a long time waiting on keys that didn't come but it's also true that they didn't need them. Police would have known that if they had ever tried to enter the room after a brief attempt in the first moments of the attack. As you can imagine, parents were disgusted with the new report.

“You said they did it in good faith. You call that good faith? They stood there 77 minutes,” said Kimberly Mata-Rubio, whose daughter was among those killed in the attack, after the presentation ended.

Another person in the crowd screamed, “Cowards!”...

"My daughter was left for dead," Ruben Zamorra said. "These police officers signed up to do a job. They didn’t do it.”

KXAN has more:

“There’s kids dead, teachers dead. Children who survived in the class bleeding, teachers who are never going to be the same. And you’re going to tell me nobody did anything wrong? Shame on you. Shame on you,” said Laura Garza, the aunt of young victim Amerie Jo.

Another part of the report that angered parents was criticism of the parents who tried to get inside the school when cops were twiddling their thumbs for more than an hour.

Prado also said families who rushed to the school that day compromised efforts to set up a chain of command, as officers had to conduct crowd control while parents desperately tried to get in the building or begged officers to go inside.

”At times they were difficult to control," Prado said. " They were wanting to break through police barriers.”

Gee, I wonder why parents concerned their kids were alone with a mass killer while police did nothing were hard to control? It's a real mystery. The city would have been better off if police had handed their weapons to the parents. At least they would have done something besides stand around.

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There's a recording of the entire meeting, including a kind of interview with Prado in which he explains why he would exonerate everyone involved. This is followed immediately by him walking out of the room. The first parent who got up to comment was Kimberly Mata-Rubio who demanded that Prado be brought back in to listen to parents. Once he returned, she made a pretty solid case that three specific officers needed to be fired based on their failure to act. This clip is more than 2 hours long. I have it cued up to just before Mata-Rubio's statements but you can scroll back if you want to see Prado's presentation.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; armedcitizen; arth; banglist; ccw; concealedcarry; rkba; secondamendment; selfdefense; texas; uvalde
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1 posted on 03/09/2024 5:07:54 AM PST by george76
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To: george76

It would be funny on a sitcom the number of failures of Uvalde.


2 posted on 03/09/2024 5:13:22 AM PST by Jonty30 (I may not know as much american history and law as I like, but I know more than most liberals.)
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So after posing for a team picture trying to look all bad-ass with their SWAT gear, they run and hide, stand by and listen as little kids get slaughtered.

Got it.


3 posted on 03/09/2024 5:16:22 AM PST by wny
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The authorities are more concerned about controlling the parents than stopping the killing.

Damn the procedure manual ;stop the crime.


4 posted on 03/09/2024 5:16:30 AM PST by hoosierham (Freedom isnt free)
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To: george76

A Whitewash report.


5 posted on 03/09/2024 5:17:17 AM PST by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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To: george76

You are now a bad person if you yell at someone for doing something stupid and potentially life-threatening.


6 posted on 03/09/2024 5:20:27 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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"The gist of the new report is that police on the scene did nothing wrong.

Fixed it.

7 posted on 03/09/2024 5:21:28 AM PST by Joe 6-pack
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Is anyone surprised they used a left-wing Austin detective to generate a report.


8 posted on 03/09/2024 5:23:13 AM PST by georgiarat (We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. William Faulkner )
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Why am I not surprised...


9 posted on 03/09/2024 5:25:29 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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Until the authorities see that we are actually fed up with the BS nothing will change. I’ll bet those cops are real tough with someone jay walking, but when they are actually called upon they run and hide. Real tough guys, them.


10 posted on 03/09/2024 5:35:37 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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I had the honor to serve alongside American men who would have - without question - gone straight in after that bastard, no hesitation and died in the process if the chips fell that way. Second Battalion, 1st Marines.

Where have men like that gone?

11 posted on 03/09/2024 5:38:13 AM PST by Chainmail (How do I feel about ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
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The 20th century was about eliminating such men, leaving weaker men to replace them.


12 posted on 03/09/2024 5:40:30 AM PST by Jonty30 (I may not know as much american history and law as I like, but I know more than most liberals.)
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To: george76

I got video of the first LEO thru the door turning around and running the other way down the hall from the shooter like a scalded dog. There is dereliction of duty in every other video clip. 99% of the LEO stood around under cover with their thumb up their asses. And there are the 19 dead kids, two dead teachers and 17 others wounded.


13 posted on 03/09/2024 5:49:05 AM PST by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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“No evidence of serious acts of misconduct in direct violation of Uvalde Police Department’s policies was found…”

So cowardice is official Police Department policy.

Good to know.

L


14 posted on 03/09/2024 5:51:48 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: george76
Just something to keep in mind next time the defeatists start up.
The s'posed kick-yer-door-in-badasses were "ineffective" at handling one armed kid.
Be it by procedural paralysis or plain ol' chickenshit.

I ain't sayin. Just sayin.. d;^)

15 posted on 03/09/2024 5:51:58 AM PST by CopperTop (Outside the wire it's just us chickens. Dig?)
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To: george76

The police are there to document crimes and draw chalk lines around corpses.


16 posted on 03/09/2024 5:53:44 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: george76

Plano - mass shooter. Single cop without backup runs in and ends the killing.

Allen - mass shooter. Single cop runs toward the gunfire and ends the killing.

Uvalde - bunch of cops stand around chatting, making sure concerned citizens don’t interfere with the shooter, and enable further killing.


17 posted on 03/09/2024 5:55:37 AM PST by PAR35
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The videos in this incident don’t lie.

Poor unity of command.

Lack of decisive decision making.

Lack of tools to engage the shooter.

Cowardice.


18 posted on 03/09/2024 5:56:44 AM PST by Fury
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To: george76
They did nothing and that was wrong.

19 posted on 03/09/2024 5:59:39 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: george76
The gist of the new report is that police on the scene did nothing wrong
20 posted on 03/09/2024 6:01:27 AM PST by Pollard (Wx - currently nasty with a chance of getting better before the next nasty)
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