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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My associate arrived, assessed the situation, then ran in solo and killed the hostage taker and rescued multiple hostages.
That, my friends, is the type of law enforcement lacking in today's chickenshit police departments.
The fervent and effective shooting of a righteously trained man availeth much.
Do you know the layout of the classroom if that was even possible? So many people second guessing as to what they should have done and yet have no idea what the actual conditions and situation was.
also, the parents were prepared to die protecting their kids.... i would too.
Have you bothered to look on maps street view?
That tells me nothing without knowing where the room was or anything else.
I agree with you.
I get that but the changes in the story have changed in bizarre ways.
Was Rose Mary Woods working there.🤔
See my previous reply. Geez dude
Good summary.
2005 SCOTUS ruled police are not required to protect you from harm.
No, but he did have human shields.
No, he had targets he killed. He wasn’t hiding behind them. Bust in and smoke the sucker!
I wonder if this is the sort of town where nepotism determines who gets on the force? Any veterans in the force?
Probably not a good idea to use a flash bang or smoke in a room full of kids you don’t want to shoot by accident, but after him killing a third or half the kids, you pretty much know how it is going to end if you don’t.
Ouch. My grandpa was in that invasion, scared shitess but the only way home was through the Germans.
And then there is the guy in Iraq who under fire, rescued a stray dog from a bridge while his buddies fired over him to give the Iraqis something else to worry about.
Who is “Sarah Jeong,” why should we accept what she says is true, what is the source of her information, is there anyone we do trust who can second and verify it?
Nobody thought of setting up two snipers outside the windows? Every school has windows in the classroom, you have two people in position, use their skill to take out the guy whether or not he had a child as a shield in front of him. Why go in the door? Go in after the window is shattered. At the very least, his attention would have been on the exterior long enough to have a team breech the doorway unopposed.
It is very simple, police have not learned the correct lessons about these types of events.
Just using lasers, I know they have them, would have distracted him while the doors are breached. Lasers on a sniper rifle, I wonder if they ever thought of those? Pop POP, glass falls down, clear shot to the killer POP POP POP POP.... times infinity.
I don’t think individual thought and initiative is treasured as it once was.
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