Posted on 05/27/2022 6:22:32 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
As we previously reported, as the story about the Uvalde shooting has evolved, we’ve learned that the police didn’t immediately rush in to try to save the kids in the school but indeed, set up a cordon outside the school, and kept parents back, as they worked out what to do with the shooter inside the school with the kids. Reportedly, the killer was inside for an hour before the police went in, as the parents were begging the police outside to do something.
We wrote about how there even appeared to be an effort to subdue the parents.
Now we have more information that shows how bad it got.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the shooter was shooting outside the school for 12 minutes before he went into the school. He also didn’t encounter a resource officer as had previously been reported.
The shooter began shooting at people after he crashed his grandmother’s truck near the school at 11:28 a.m. A 911 call came in at 11:30 reporting a shooter. Then he climbed over the fence to the elementary school, firing before he went inside at 11:40. Police arrived at 11:44. But the Border Patrol Tactical team didn’t go in until an hour later — around 12:40. Local officials said that police were on the scene very quickly after he got to the school, but they weren’t able to get into the classroom where he had barricaded himself.
In that intervening time, parents who were cordoned off and kept back were frantic at the police failing to go in. They pleaded with them to go in and said they would go in themselves. One of the parents, Angeli Rose Gomez, who had two kids in the school in the second and third grades, said that law enforcement officers handcuffed her for interfering in an investigation for urging the police to do something. “The police were doing nothing,” she said. “They were just standing outside the fence. They weren’t going in there or running anywhere.” She convinced local police to get the other law enforcement officers to free her. She said it was chaos all around her — that police had tackled one father and thrown him to the ground, while a third parent was pepper-sprayed.
That’s why you had this video, the desperation of the parents is stark and heartbreaking.
This video make so much more sense now. The cops literally stopped parents from helping their kids. pic.twitter.com/zhQfUjlpjd https://t.co/DqgZUH3uCC
— Matt Novak (@paleofuture) May 26, 2022
Gomez, once released, jumped the fence, ran into the school, and got her kids out. Gomez also said she saw a police officer use a taser on a father who tried to get his child from a bus after the shooter had been killed. “They didn’t do that to the shooter, but they did that to us. That’s how it felt,” Gomez explained.
A Texas DPS officer, Juan Maldonado, said that he and the husband of one of the teachers who was slain broke their way in to get kids out, showing the cuts on his forearms from breaking out windows in the effort.
There was also this video where a Texas DPS lieutenant at about 1:19 appears to say that police went in and got their kids out. It’s not clear who those officers were or if they were able to get out any other kids.
Here’s a Texas DPS Lieutenant telling a local station that some officers breached the school to get their own children BEFORE the shooter was taken down. pic.twitter.com/BrvS4sCqp6
— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) May 26, 2022
“Right. So what we do know, Vanessa, right now, that there was some police officers, families trying to get their children out of school because it was a active shooter situation right now.”
Where are all the ‘back the blue’ useful idiots?
“Where are all the ‘back the blue’ useful idiots?”
Hey, Sparky. I “back the blue,” because I believe in law and order. But what these cops did is unconscionable, and I roundly condemn them. I understand wanting to prioritize your own kids, but as a sworn officer of the law you are prohibited from showing such bias.
Speaks volumes. Law enforcement isn't there to enforce the law. They're there to clean up the scene and help the investigators. Our culture is so lost.
This PD will be lucky if it’s only disbanded. I see lawsuits on the horizon.
The police response was a clusterpuck. So was the so called school security, leaving doors open for easy access, well that worked. I’ll bet nobody takes responsibility for that SINGLE POINT OF FAILURE. And where ws the school resource officer???
Then we don’t have a SWAT response? WTF?
Where was the armed guard?
Hope so. I also hope the FBI swoops in and delivers a Jack Boot of Justice on their necks.
Oh. Wait. The FBI is just as corrupt and self-serving as the above PD. Never mind.
If I were in this situation, I would have called in a White Supremacist in a Nazi uniform actively shooting children.
That would have got the Feds attention - they would have arrived with guns blazing.
After all the DHS has told us repeatedly that our greatest threat is from White Supremacists.
There must not be a threat from those 'white supremacists' in Uvalde.
Some animals are more equal than others
As Mayor Daley once famously said, “The police are not here to create disorder, they’re here to preserve disorder.”
Having served on a School Board, I can tell you that school district personnel tend to ‘circle the wagons’ and are protective of staff members when major incidents arise. They act like its a big “family” and you don’t hurt family members. If a principal, a teacher or a custodian left a door unlocked and open, the School Board may be forced to treat this as a “non-public” HR matter and keep things quiet if they can. Most public education employees are in one labor union or another - including admistrators like building Principals. The School Board and Superintendent’s office get hamstrung by “confidentiality rules” imposed by union CBAs when disputes or misconduct arise. Just one more negative of protectionist education unions.
This is also why any CCTV videos of that day’s tragedy may never get released. The public sector protects its own.
yes, you are correct. In a situation like this they will need to find out how the door was left open, it was a single point of failure.
Police are not perfect. "Back the Blue" when it is warranted. "Criticize the Blue" when it is warranted as well.
18 missing 911 minutes:
https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/1529710536169910272
Swamp runs deep it seems.
Cops are not our friends. They are paid by the feds, and they are loyal to the feds.
Stay prepared.
I wonder if these last two events are an attempt to influence SCOTUS coming ruling on 2A
Your back the blue numbers are dwindling. The police aren’t your friends. Open your eyes
Something is starting to stink about all this.
Intentional to further the anti-gun narrative????
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