Posted on 05/26/2022 1:32:55 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Texas cops have revealed that there was no armed guard on campus when the gunman arrived on Tuesday which allowed him to walk 'unobstructed' through an unlocked door and into the building where he slaughtered 21 people.
At a press conference on Thursday afternoon, Victor Escalon, the Regional Director for the Department of Public Safety South Texas, said Salvador Ramos walked through an unlocked door 'unobstructed' and that there was no guard 'readily available'.
It contradicts earlier reports that he fired at a school resource officer.
Ramos entered the school at 11.40am, 12 minutes after crashing his truck outside the school and walking towards campus with his AR-15. That is when police were alerted to the scene.
At 11.44am, the first cops entered the school. Ramos shot at them and they retreated.
It's unclear if he had already shot the kids and teachers in the fourth grade classroom by then, or if he went on to attack them after those cops retreated.
It then took an hour for specialized SWAT teams to arrive. At 1.06pm, the incident was declared over after Ramos was shot dead.
In the meantime, 150 cops were gathering outside. Some of them were filmed pinning parents to the floor and some were even placed in handcuffs, according to witnesses.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
back the yellow.
Stephen Austin must be ready to come out of his grave!
We know now there were cops.
Gunman opens fire on the cops.
Cops retreat. Wait an hour.
Gunman barricades himself in classroom.
Shoots up the class.
I live in an uber liberal portion of NY. Even here the schools have a buzzer system to get into the school and have hired retired NYPD to be armed and in the schools undercover.
I don’t think I could stand outside while children are being shot, especially if I was LEO. If my kids were in there, the police would have had a hell of a time stopping me from going in...
Which is easier? Controlling a bunch of unarmed civilian parents, or facing gunfire to save the lives of children? Don't want to be too pre-judgmental as not all the facts are fully out, but one can deceive themself thinking they are doing a good thing, but in fact are actually cowering behind crowd doing control rather than spooling up one's courage to face gunfire and save children.
This is the difference between something good and something noble.
9MM BEATS 9-1-1 EVERY TIME
I thought we learned the lesson not to fall back and wait for SWAT with Florida’s Stoneman Douglas High School shooting?
The deputy conducting the class said, that the department’s policy was to not ‘wait for backup’ but enter the school and engage the attacker. This class was at least five years ago.
What do you expect. They are there to protect and serve the state.
150 to one. I guess they had to wait until the odds were good enough.
Yesterday The Daily Mail had a photo of the school resource office that was taken before the shooting. In the photo was his daughter, who was holding up and Honor Roll award, and his wife. The story said that his daughter was one of the victims.
Something stinks, bad.
School is apparently only a quarter-mile away from grandma’s. She was shot a little after 11:00am. Perp sent a couple Instagram messages.
“you don’t retreat and wait while an armed attacker is going after unarmed children.”
Second to that. A real Sheepdog not a person just collecting a paycheck, would have risked it all to save unarmed children.
them teachers marms wuz ther, done that but then fergit about it for 220 years. During the War of 1812, near Saratoga, NY, schoolmarms armed with muskets held off a band of Algonquin Indians, British allies, until the militia arrived. You can check the Saratoga, NY area archives. It`s a famous battle. Apparently US teachers have total amnesia concerning how to protect children from predators 2 legged or 4 legged. Schools had armed teachers already here 200 years ago- nuthin` new.
SCHOOLS ARE GUN ZONES in 1800
“Children of the present day would be somewhat startled to go to school attended by large dogs, to keep off the bears and other wild animals, to study all day by the crackle of the great fire and back logs, to hear the howling of wolves at rollcall, and see the teacher take from its resting place over the door, a trusty rifle to guard the way home. Such were the first schools in 1800.”
‘Periwinkle’, “The Sentinel”, Feb 21, 1874 [”Ticonderoga Sentinel”, Ticonderoga, NY].**USA
That’s just not right! If there were 4 there, 3.5 of them had plates.
Actually I prefer MegaMagaMan myself.
But I’ll proudly claim Iron Jack.
Our friends Pirate Name is Tiny Winky. That’s why he doesn’t share it with us.
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Exactly, someone’s making an excuse, won’t work with me.
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