Posted on 05/27/2022 6:32:44 AM PDT by TigerClaws
Multiple law enforcement sources revealed to Breitbart Texas that part of the delay in stopping the barricaded elementary school shooter hinged on a deadly mix of the shooter’s defensive tactics and the lack of needed gear. Specifically, officers lacked the ballistic shield needed to enter the classroom with the barricaded shooter.
Attempting to breach the door without a ballistic shield would have resulted in certain death for the officers which could have provided the shooter with the officers’ weapons and ammunition. There is also the possibility that the shooter could have taken police communications gear off of the officers’ bodies, thereby giving the shooter the ability to listen to police movement and plans.
A Border Patrol source with knowledge of the methods used by the hastily formed team of law enforcement officers to engage the suspect described the difficulty faced by the officers. The source, with decades of prior experience on the Border Patrol’s elite BORTAC team, says the situation became much more difficult to resolve once the shooter barricaded himself in the classroom.
The source, not authorized to speak to the media, told Breitbart Texas a barricaded subject is the most difficult tactical situation to resolve. In this case, the source says the shooter most likely planned the attack days or weeks in advance, perhaps prior to the purchase of two AR-15 style rifles and the ammunition he carried onto the school grounds.
According to the source, officers at the scene who had been trained in advanced tactical procedures located a level IV ballistic shield. This tool allowed them to approach the shooter without immediately being killed. A United States Marshal Service employee acquired the necessary ballistic shield that ultimately allowed the quickly formed tactical team to enter the building and reach the barricaded shooter.
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Guts trumps shields when little kids are being slaughtered.
Give me a break. Just the supervisor who stopped them from going in.
Give me a break. Just name the supervisor who stopped them from going in.
Revisionist history commencing almost immediately...
Yeah yeah a school full of CHILDREN, one shooter and no one even thought to do jack spit except sit on their hands for reinforcements? Where’s Walked Texas Ranger? Where is one mustang who could give two sh*ts about their danged safety rules and went all Audie Murphy on this evil little kid?
Then they go in without their precious ballistic shield. What a lame “dog ate my homework” excuse. They all need to be fired.
I think they lacked balls.
What BS. Ballistic shield. This thing does not add up. How does an 18 year old untrained Tranny Homo out-tactic a Police Force and the Border Patrol.
Utter nonsense.
What are they covering up?
Because the ONLY way in was to make entry through one door in a rack and stack.
Not.
Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.
And what’s the definition of courage again???
The shooter didn’t have a ballistic shield.
” Specifically, officers lacked the ballistic shield needed to enter the classroom with the barricaded shooter.”
What about entering the rest of the school, and evacuating the people inside?
I read a timeline this morning that he spent 12 minutes outside the school before entering.
Another thing… was this a first floor room with windows? If so approach from inside and outside
Armed police - in Texas - stood around outside while 10-year olds were being shot down like dogs.
The USA is truly finished....
Dozens of LE officers and they get outsmarted by a loan crazed teenager.
These guys ever hear of flash-bang grenades and smoke grenades? Do soldiers get to hide until it is safe for them to attack a position? Kids were dying, you assault the position and take the kid down.
Pretty creative. Nine person SWAT Team, no ballistic shield to be found, “ImOUT!!!”
Federal Marshals, BP agents chasing the shooter. Shoot out for 12 minutes outside in the area of the school BEFORE he barricades himself in a school that is NOT LOCKED DOWN.
18 minutes of missing 911 recordings from Uvalde Police Dept.
Yeah, let’s ban guns, and these things just happen.
You know who else didn't have ballistic shields to protect them? The children.
Bullshit. They were cowering behind their patrol cars arresting parents trying to save their own children. I would rather die a hero trying to save children form a crazed murderer than to look at the face of a coward in the mirror every day.
Not believing some of the replys here. You have a shooter holed up in a room with a rifle pointed at the door, without a shield how do you enter without being immediately killed. Bunch of keyboard commandos for sure.would anyone here enter a door knowing it would be instant death?
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