Posted on 05/27/2022 6:32:44 AM PDT by TigerClaws
They should have sent in Keanu Reeves aka John Wick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xii9_oWQ7HY
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Only one door?
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
No, the killer is responsible.
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.
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.
“There was a ‘stand down’ order from on top.”
Ah, the ol’ Peter Principle.
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.
Amazing how LE managed to serve and protect hundreds of years before all the fancy tech stuff and Rambo military gear.
Actually, it was the RMS Titanic, I was making a point about the national collapse of the US.
One cop makes noise in the hallway to distract while your second cop on duty shoots the monster through the window.
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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.
> 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.
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