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EXCLUSIVE: Police Initially Lacked Ballistic Shield Needed to Reach Barricaded Texas School Shooter
Breitbart ^

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; police; protectandserve; protectmypension; servemyself; texas; theyreyellabilly
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To: Trailerpark Badass

They should have sent in Keanu Reeves aka John Wick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xii9_oWQ7HY


121 posted on 05/27/2022 8:27:57 AM PDT by Pollard (If there's a question mark in the headline, the answer should always be No.)
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To: Jaded

First news about any event is always fluid and always changing. Everyone knows that.


122 posted on 05/27/2022 8:32:36 AM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: Pirate Ragnar

Adapt, improvise and overcome.


123 posted on 05/27/2022 8:34:33 AM PDT by GreyHoundSailor (LGBTQ - Let's Get Brandon To Quit)
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To: TigerClaws

Only one door?


124 posted on 05/27/2022 8:35:29 AM PDT by dgbrown
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To: eastforker

Yeah, such a quandary. Simply mind boggling. Only one way into a school that is comprised of several single story buildings with windows, doors and a/c vents but somehow the only point of entry to save 600 kids is that one door. And not one sharp shooter in the bunch to end it while he’s focused on that one door.


125 posted on 05/27/2022 8:39:21 AM PDT by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: eastforker

Any LEO should know how to stack and enter a room. Having flash bangs would be nice, but not required. I could teach you how to do this any number of ways in a short period of time. Would you be proficient at it, no, but you’d defiantly know the steps and be able to help in a situation exactly like this.

Having said that, these guys should have learned all this at the academy. It’s basic stuff.

Entering doesn’t mean certain death at all if you know what you’re doing and are wearing the proper gear. You think our warfighters carry ballistic shields everywhere they go?

I think you need to know your audience. There are a lot of actual commandos on FR...


126 posted on 05/27/2022 8:42:02 AM PDT by Mathews (It's all gravy, baby!)
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To: A Navy Vet

Go to maps street view. That’s enough to show how the campus is laid out. Plenty of ways to get in. They didn’t have to get in to end him. Plenty of safe evacuation points for the other kids.


127 posted on 05/27/2022 8:42:04 AM PDT by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: bgill

No, the cops isolated him in that room so he would not have access to the rest of the school. That is the way I understand it anyway.


128 posted on 05/27/2022 8:42:28 AM PDT by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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To: ChuckHam

But then you’d have whiners crying they lost the key so couldn’t get into the storage room or the room was too close to the shooter. It’d also waste another hour or two deciding how to get to the room while more babies are being killed.


129 posted on 05/27/2022 8:45:05 AM PDT by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: SecondAmendment

No, the killer is responsible.


130 posted on 05/27/2022 8:46:35 AM PDT by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: Leaning Right

Parents didn’t train for this but they got their kids out without the use of shields and guns.

As it stands, the killer is 100% responsible for the shootings but the cops are 100% responsible for letting the killings to continue for 1.5 hours and letting children bleed out.


131 posted on 05/27/2022 8:52:46 AM PDT by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: bgill
> No, the killer is responsible.

Of course.

However whomever left the door enabled the killer and must bear some responsibility and should be the priority in any investigation since the killer is dead.

132 posted on 05/27/2022 8:52:55 AM PDT by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING !!!)
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To: TigerClaws

“There was a ‘stand down’ order from on top.”

Ah, the ol’ Peter Principle.


133 posted on 05/27/2022 9:03:17 AM PDT by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: logi_cal869

Sorry, supervisor, can’t hear you. You’re breaking up. My battery is low. I don’t have a signal. Oh my, I’ve dropped my phone and stepped on it.


134 posted on 05/27/2022 9:08:32 AM PDT by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: Leaning Right

Amazing how LE managed to serve and protect hundreds of years before all the fancy tech stuff and Rambo military gear.


135 posted on 05/27/2022 9:12:03 AM PDT by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: Lurker

Actually, it was the RMS Titanic, I was making a point about the national collapse of the US.


136 posted on 05/27/2022 9:14:05 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Love's redeeming work is done)
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To: eastforker

One cop makes noise in the hallway to distract while your second cop on duty shoots the monster through the window.

Note to self - Avoid Eastforker’s fox hole at all cost.


137 posted on 05/27/2022 9:18:01 AM PDT by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: TigerClaws

138 posted on 05/27/2022 9:18:20 AM PDT by Pollard (If there's a question mark in the headline, the answer should always be No.)
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To: ghost of nixon

I THINK your right. And, I say this based on experience with a small police force I know. You can literally feel and see the “union mentality” when your in their midst. I don’t think any of them (in Uvalde) are necessarily cowards. I just believe that most cops (not all!) aren’t use to THINKING individually and default to “what does Joe (their boss) think?”

I think sadly that some kids PROBABLY bled to death during the one hour the cops were waiting (said to be). An obvious cover up is going on now (let’s get our story straight!).

At a minimum higher ranking police officers are going to earn their pay in months and years to come, and justifiably so, defending on scene cops in Uvalde that probably let a bunch of kids bleed to death. What these cops don’t “get” is that their reasons, even if valid, don’t matter to the general public, nor should they. 10 year old’s needed help and didn’t get it until it was too late.


139 posted on 05/27/2022 9:20:56 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: bgill

> One cop makes noise in the hallway to distract while your second cop on duty shoots the monster through the window. <

How difficult could that have been? Cop #1 gets a baseball bat or a nightstick, and starts banging on the door. Cop #2 takes the shot through a window.

I dunno. Maybe further events will show that the cops were all brave heroes who had to subdue the parents outside before engaging the shooter.


140 posted on 05/27/2022 9:23:06 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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