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.
It would be funny on a sitcom the number of failures of Uvalde.
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.
The authorities are more concerned about controlling the parents than stopping the killing.
Damn the procedure manual ;stop the crime.
A Whitewash report.
You are now a bad person if you yell at someone for doing something stupid and potentially life-threatening.
Fixed it.
Is anyone surprised they used a left-wing Austin detective to generate a report.
Why am I not surprised...
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.
Where have men like that gone?
The 20th century was about eliminating such men, leaving weaker men to replace them.
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.
“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.
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I ain't sayin. Just sayin.. d;^)
The police are there to document crimes and draw chalk lines around corpses.
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.
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.
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