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Report: Police Got Own Kids Out of School While Subduing Other Uvalde Parents
RedState ^ | May 27, 2022 8:30 AM ET | Nick Arama

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.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: disinformation; schoolshooting; uvalde
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To: Hammerhead

Not talking about the GOP wipe in the primary, or inflation, or gas prices, or stock market crashing, or the price of oil going to $200/BBL, are we?


21 posted on 05/27/2022 7:07:26 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: SoConPubbie

Always good to know who’s in charge.


22 posted on 05/27/2022 7:10:14 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: roving

“Your back the blue numbers are dwindling. The police aren’t your friends. Open your eyes.”

I never said they were my friends. You assume facts that are not in evidence. I said I believed in law and order.


23 posted on 05/27/2022 7:12:15 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: SoConPubbie

It’s worse than that. The were clearly ordered to stand down.


24 posted on 05/27/2022 7:12:55 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: SoConPubbie

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25 posted on 05/27/2022 7:16:11 AM PDT by sauropod ("We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they are elected. Don’t you?" Why? "It saves time.”)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

And hopefully some cop suicides.


26 posted on 05/27/2022 7:36:51 AM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: Bon of Babble

Judging from prior instances in Texas, the FEDs would have set the school on fire.


27 posted on 05/27/2022 7:56:43 AM PDT by Do_Tar (I wish I was kidding.)
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To: SoConPubbie

I wonder how many cop cars in that area are going to be spit on in the next few weeks. Or worse.


28 posted on 05/27/2022 8:17:35 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: ought-six

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Law and order, in today’s America, is nothing more than a TV show.


29 posted on 05/27/2022 8:34:17 AM PDT by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them)
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To: ought-six

Why back the blue when the blue doesn’t have your back?


30 posted on 05/27/2022 8:57:29 AM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis )
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To: SoConPubbie

The Internet reminds - “No one is coming to the rescue, it’s up to us.


31 posted on 05/27/2022 9:03:37 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (The only good commie is one that's dead - Country Joe McDonald)
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To: SoConPubbie

The police were in the school helping teachers evacuate 600 students.

Also, the shooter came in a side or back door that happened to be unlocked. Other than the main entrance, all doors should be exit only.


32 posted on 05/27/2022 9:09:51 AM PDT by elpadre (W)
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To: No Party Affiliation

I wonder just how “stylish” this Police Department is.


33 posted on 05/27/2022 9:11:18 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: roving

Back the Yellow


34 posted on 05/27/2022 10:39:04 AM PDT by Ken H (Trump /DeSantis)
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To: Do_Tar

Yes. An no one would have ever been held accountable - same as for Waco and Ruby Ridge.


35 posted on 05/28/2022 5:53:39 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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