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.
Every man there was able to control and suppress their impulse to fight and end the killing of the children.
And these were not even random males, they were all males that sought out and signed up for the warrior role in life.
This is so disturbing.
Those jokers stood around in the hallway, one using a hand sanitizer dispenser, for how long?
“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.”
What was the head of the dept like? his actions had a lot to do with it also.
Yep. Cops are the clean up crew.
Well, doing nothing seems to be again the good way to do stuff.
As long as it cannot be proven you did something wrong, you are OK.
That’s a great standard for all government workers.
Doing nothing is the safest way to keep a job!
Every LE who was there that day; Local PD, Sheriff, DPS, Game Wardens and BP should have been harassed and shamed daily by every Texan that encountered them for the past two years and forever more.
“They did nothing and that was wrong.”
To be fair, they did handcuff a mother who tried to go in and save the kids, so there’s that.
And these were not even random males, they were all males that sought out and signed up for the warrior role in life.
This is so disturbing.
What was the command structure? ALL are centralized now. You get penalized for using wrong pronouns.
> Former Austin Police Department detective Jesse Prado examined the actions of each Uvalde police officer… <
So the police investigated the police, and found that the police did nothing wrong.
Got it.
This is what happens when parents abdicate the responsibility for their children’s safety to government bureaucrats. You get the government you deserve and by extension the police you deserve.
“We have investigated ourselves, and found we did nothing wrong”
There are still a few good people left. Just none on the Uvalde Police Department.
Recall that off-duty Border Patrol officers swept right past the cowering Uvalde police, entered the school, and killed the shooter.
Prado did exactly what he was paid to do...exonerate the city government and its employees.
Re: 26 - no, the BORTAC team from Border Patrol took command of the situation when they arrived. They were the main force that assaulted in.
> Prado did exactly what he was paid to do... <
Good comment. Detective Prado cleared the people who were paying him. So now he will be on the short list the next time a city needs to whitewash something.
Not surprised!
They were following policy written by government lawyers. Such a policy is all about risk avoidance and the elimination of personal initiative. You see personal initiative increases risk and liability on the city.
And these were not even random males, they were all males that sought out and signed up for the warrior role in life.
This is so disturbing.
++++++++++++
The one thing that you can take some solace in - These fraudulent LEO’s need to live with this the rest of their natural lives. Inside the deep unknowns of the human brain, their is a little voice, that will ALWAYS be there reminding officer badass that in the one moment in his life that mattered, he failed. He knows he is a coward and that scores of innocent children are forever departed from this life due to him being a major league pussy. Nothing will EVER, EVER change that.
This says it well.
https://covidsteria.substack.com/p/uvalde-police-mass-shooting-memes?s=w
Just a guess but I’ll bet the local donut shop did big business that day.
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