Posted on 03/09/2024 5:07:54 AM PST by george76
There's only so much outrage left in the tank on a sunny Friday afternoon, but wow this is just insane in the membrane. An independent investigation into the school shooting at Robb Elementary school in Uvalde, Texas was commissioned by the city of Uvalde in 2022. Yesterday, the results of the investigation were released to the public during a city council meeting. The gist of the new report is that police on the scene did nothing wrong.
Former Austin Police Department detective Jesse Prado examined the actions of each Uvalde police officer as they responded to the deadliest school shooting in Texas history on May 24, 2022.
The report recommends that each police officer should be “exonerated,” stating in most of their cases: “No evidence of serious acts of misconduct in direct violation of Uvalde Police Department’s policies was found in his behavior in response to the incident. I find that (this officer) acted in good faith.”
The report was prepared by a former police detective name Jesse Prado to help defend the city from an influx of lawsuits. So it makes sense that it basically finds no real errors on the part of the police. It does contain a section of recommendations which suggests that, in future, police should attempt to kill a mass shooter: I haven't read the report itself but I'm struggling to understand how this would not constitute a failure by the officers on hand given that they all received training in which they were specifically taught that this was a best practice for dealing with an active shooter.
“Officers responding to an active shooter incident must continually seek to eliminate the threat and enable victim response,” one recommendation read. “An active shooter with access to victims should never be considered and treated as a barricaded subject.”
Prado also concluded that he believed the assessment of Paul Guerrero, the acting commander of the Border Patrol tactical team, who said he thought the door of the classroom where the shooting took place was locked. The report detailed many attempts by officers to get keys to unlock doors inside the school, delaying efforts to get inside classrooms.
Both the previous Justice Department report and the investigation by state lawmakers have doubted the door was ever locked.
There are at least three reports that say the door where the gunman was hiding was not locked. So it's true that police spent a long time waiting on keys that didn't come but it's also true that they didn't need them. Police would have known that if they had ever tried to enter the room after a brief attempt in the first moments of the attack. As you can imagine, parents were disgusted with the new report.
“You said they did it in good faith. You call that good faith? They stood there 77 minutes,” said Kimberly Mata-Rubio, whose daughter was among those killed in the attack, after the presentation ended.
Another person in the crowd screamed, “Cowards!”...
"My daughter was left for dead," Ruben Zamorra said. "These police officers signed up to do a job. They didn’t do it.”
KXAN has more:
“There’s kids dead, teachers dead. Children who survived in the class bleeding, teachers who are never going to be the same. And you’re going to tell me nobody did anything wrong? Shame on you. Shame on you,” said Laura Garza, the aunt of young victim Amerie Jo.
Another part of the report that angered parents was criticism of the parents who tried to get inside the school when cops were twiddling their thumbs for more than an hour.
Prado also said families who rushed to the school that day compromised efforts to set up a chain of command, as officers had to conduct crowd control while parents desperately tried to get in the building or begged officers to go inside.
”At times they were difficult to control," Prado said. " They were wanting to break through police barriers.”
Gee, I wonder why parents concerned their kids were alone with a mass killer while police did nothing were hard to control? It's a real mystery. The city would have been better off if police had handed their weapons to the parents. At least they would have done something besides stand around.
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There's a recording of the entire meeting, including a kind of interview with Prado in which he explains why he would exonerate everyone involved. This is followed immediately by him walking out of the room. The first parent who got up to comment was Kimberly Mata-Rubio who demanded that Prado be brought back in to listen to parents. Once he returned, she made a pretty solid case that three specific officers needed to be fired based on their failure to act. This clip is more than 2 hours long. I have it cued up to just before Mata-Rubio's statements but you can scroll back if you want to see Prado's presentation.
It was a rogue, off duty BP officer that ended the killings.
Re: 21 - I can’t imagine the LEOs that exhibited cowardice would be readily accepted into another agency.
And courts have ruled LEO’s have no responsibility to protect and serve
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-police-do-not-have-a-constitutional-duty-to-protect.html
” The report detailed many attempts by officers to get keys to unlock doors inside the school, delaying efforts to get inside classrooms.”
KEYS!!!!????
Kids are being MURDERED and you are looking for KEYS?
Reminds me of that time that the police took the time to review surveillance videos while people DIED!
If the cops had done there jobs there would have been no reason for parents to try to enter the school. The perp would have been dead or arrested and medical aid would have been rendered.
When seconds count, it only takes police 77 minutes to react.
Aaaaaaand evil just keeps on steam rolling our nation, and the left get away with their asinine agenda day after day.
Uvalde - bunch of cops stand around chatting, making sure concerned citizens don’t interfere with the shooter, and enable further killing.
And
Making sure they get some hand sanitizer so that they don’t catch covid
“Kayce Smith, a Barstool Sports media personality, called the footage of the lingering cops “revolting.”
“so let me get this straight. Uvalde officers were inside within five minutes, stood around for over an hour, made sure to get HAND SANITIZER … while still hearing rounds being fired and the kids screaming,” she tweeted. “What the F— are we doing here?? This is revolting.””
Most cops run towards threats, those particular cops in uvalde however are a disgrace, as are their superiors who ordered them to stand down while kids were being shot and dying. The whole things was one of our nations most disgraceful times, and of course the left do everything In Their power to defend the despicable actions that day. It was almost as bad as obiden leaving Americans stranded in Afghanistan just because he hated Trump so much that he left Afghanistan without a plan or proper support to do so.
Uvalde police handcuffed and pepper-sprayed parents, who urged them to storm the school, including the dad of a murdered girl and a mom-of-two who got free, jumped a fence and rescued her kids herself..
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4066522/posts
They are still around- remember back to the church shooting I thi k it was where the gunman left the scene, but a citizen ran and got his “weapon of war” rifle and chased him down and ended the maggots life in a shootout. I think it was in Texas? But dont remember now. Also another church shooting where members of the church were murdered, folks ran out screaming, but a few stayed and drew their weapons and ended that maggots life in a shootout too inside the building.
Democrats investigating Democrats...why am I not surprised?
What would you expect? Just like commie trash always defer to “fact checkers” to cover their criminal behavior, the coppers hired a 3rd party to take years to write a report.
Kinda like Fauci gave money to a 3rd party to fund gain-of-function research at Wuhan.
Everyone should sue. Big time. Report is PR toilet paper.
Probably the worst and most shameful thing of the whole,tragedy was the cops outside that detained and arrested parents who tried to run into the school in an effort to save their child from the shooter. They were willing to rush in when the cops were not!
I can’t beleive the left are still defending the actions of that tragedy shameful- victimizing the survivors and their parents even further!
2018 :: Broward County deputies were told not to go into the High School to protect the kids ... the Coral Springs PD ignored the * Cowards in Broward, Florida .. They entered the school / saved lives.
Hero Border Patrol cop rushed to Texas massacre school mid-haircut with borrowed shotgun to rescue 20 kids including his daughter, 8, after wife who teaches there texted him saying: ‘There’s an active shooter. ‘Help. I love you.’.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4066541/posts
That little petite mama got both of her kids out while the Chief went there without his phone.
All anyone has to do is look at how the police performed at Colombine, Parkland and Uvalde to see how the police - and their unions - have evolved from "protect and serve" to "get back home safely every evening and collect my paycheck".
“Prado also said families who rushed to the school that day compromised efforts to set up a chain of command,”
That’s what Uvalde needed right then, someone to set up a chain of command outside.
One mom hopped the fence, ran into the school and rescued her two sons and all his classmates. The cops in Uvalde were a disgrace.
Never ever ever believe in the efficacy of blue ribbon commissions, expert review panels, or advisory committees. They are always chartered and staffed with reliable members of the deep state to get the desired outcome. One of the desired outcomes, which is alwasy achieved, is to kick the can down the road so that public outrage has cooled, memories have faded and priorities have shifted elsewhere.
Uvalde? What's that, most people would respond.
Coward pig cops let kids be slaughtered. What’s to see? May they rot in hell.
You left out, the Uvalde shooting was ended by a rogue off duty BP agent.
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