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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School https://tennesseestar.com/2022/05/24/at-least-14-students-dead-in-texas-elementary-school-shooting/</a> -one-story, lots of windows. Trained LE just waited outside hearing kids being shot? Doesn’t make sense.
I'll bet it was some teacher or maintenance person who wanted easy in and out access to their car. The door needs to be the FIRST question from reporters... HOW WAS THE DOOR LEFT OPEN AND WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE? As you said, that was the single point of failure here. 2nd, no armed guard at the front door situated behind a protective gate.
We all get that this was a very dangerous situation. But the police must DO SOMETHING in incidents like this. It is simply unacceptable for them to just stand around while children are being slaughtered.
Send in five police dogs at once. Fire a volley of flash grenades through a window. Create a distraction at the door, then breach a window. Do something. My goodness. Don’t cops train for incidents like this? Don’t they have some sort of plan, besides letting innocents die?
There’s going to be video too.
If this kid is moving around the room straight up and down then 9 formerly SWAT people are going to get cushy FBI jobs, because no other police force in a red state will have them.
Every one of them would have already self terminated if the had the most minimal sense of honor.
Little known fact:
The D-Day invasion was delayed due ti a lack of ballistic shields.
Like many Southern schools, it's got as much glass area as solid wall.
Did they bother using binoculars from a distance all around the school to see if they could find which classroom he was in? Or did they just hang out in the parking lot?
Room full of kids? Without question.
I’m not afraid of dying, however the idea of being a regretful cowardly piece of shit does inspire a lot of fear.
I think they did by isolating him in that one room. I would bet the carnage had been done within the first 3 or 4 minutes. We do not know the layout of the classroom. And there is a big difference between being brave and being stupid.
WTF is a ballistic shield? They should have grabbed some tables from the school cafeteria. Not perfect, but good enough to overwhelm the mass killer.
A school has tables and chairs everywhere to take and to use as shields. How vaxxxed up were these law enforcement clowns? Vaxxxed up to lower their IQ by 40 points.
” without a shield how do you enter without being immediately killed”
How about bust a window and throw some tear gas in there? Can’t aim a rifle at the door very well if you can’t see.
Schools should be redesigned, the only windows should be to a central courtyard area that cannot be accessed from the outside. Locked doors to the outside OK, but they need to remain locked and not blocked open by some idiot.
Well, then they would need some masks, I suppose that would be another few hour delay. Bottom line, the SWAT team was unprepared.
Each day that passes this police force looks worse and worse. I realize it’s a small town and a small police force but why did they think waiting an hour outside was a good idea? Also there are photos from 2021 of their swat team all geared up and grinning like morons. Where were those clowns?
Even though many reports have been riddled with lies/errors, we were told he was in a classroom that connected to another classroom. I’m not sure why they didn’t assault him from both doors simultaneously earlier in the siege. Smash both doors and/or unlock as necessary and then toss in flashbangs.
Hmmm, thought about that and I’m not sure if beat cops (the ones there first) carry flashbangs in their cars.
Hey, we just lost a damn WAR to a bunch of goat herders.
Every red-blooded American male is getting run out of the military and police with PC training and screenings.
Goal is to weaken America and ‘collapse the system’ to replace it with their glorious Great Reset.
Their training apparently consists of cowering behind their patrol cars and waiting for someone who isn’t a coward to do something.
Seems the 6,7 and 8 year old children lacked the bulletproof backpacks also.
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