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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTX Police Lt. Says Cops Were Reluctant to Engage Gunman Because 'They Could've Been Shot'
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A Texas Department of Public Safety official said responding officers were cautious as they entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas because they couldve been shot.
Nineteen children and two teachers were murdered after authorities say an 18-year-old male entered with a rifle 12 minutes after he crashed a car near campus.
The New York Times reported the shooter was inside the school for about an hour before officers finally breached the classroom he was in and shot and killed him.
Reporters demanded answers during a contentious press conference Thursday afternoon. State law enforcement officials addressed the public a day after some parents with children in the school said they were prevented from going in by officers.
One girl inside the room reportedly bled for an hour after she was shot. She died at a hospital. It is unknown if that hour might have saved her life.
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Blaukraut
(5,693 posts)honest.abe
(8,685 posts)Response to Nevilledog (Original post)
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Nevilledog
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Tom Winter
@Tom_Winter
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May 25, 2022
NEW: Texas law enforcement officials at a press conference say they believe that all the children that were shot and killed in Uvalde, TX were shot by Salvador Ramos and not anyone else [i.e. law enforcement].
God
@thegoodgodabove
so they shot children then
4:47 PM · May 26, 2022
ecstatic
(32,731 posts)Texas appears to be super corrupt (not trying to be mean, my state is quickly catching up to them).
Nevilledog
(51,197 posts)crickets
(25,983 posts)Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)No reason that should have occurred to them to say unless there was a reason.
rsdsharp
(9,197 posts)City of Castle Rock v Gonzales 545 US 748 (2005).
As near as I can tell, their job is to dress up like GI Joe, and meet their ticket and arrest quotas, while being paid six figures in most departments.
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Nevilledog
(51,197 posts)tblue37
(65,487 posts)tulipsandroses
(5,127 posts)Enforce their authority by arrest or abuse whenever challenged.
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)... but an known armed guy in a elementary school doesn't get ran up on at all.
Are we that scary to them !?!?
Irish_Dem
(47,382 posts)Why do I want to rip that stupid cowboy hat off this guy's head?
DenaliDemocrat
(1,476 posts)Only brave against people in weaker positions. We knew it all along. They liked to pretend to be soldiers-they are not.
bucolic_frolic
(43,281 posts)So that idea's out the window.
As for arming teachers .... They won't be experts, they won't stop the initial carnage. An hour later maybe one of them could have done something.
As for security officers at schools at all times ... How long can even the best of LE sit alert, trigger ready? What type of vigilance can you buy for the salaries school districts can afford to pay?
ecstatic
(32,731 posts)are of how they sound. I think it was the mayor who was bragging about how he was out there keeping the parents away from the scene.
brer cat
(24,605 posts)would be knowing they bled out when they might have been saved by prompt action. Those cowards should turn in their badges.
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)This shit doesn't make sense.
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)Nevilledog
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Amy Siskind 🏳️?🌈
@Amy_Siskind
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May 26, 2022
This is just unthinkable: SEVEN police officers were inside the school but did not confront the shooter per @CNN. They waited "about an hour" for a Border Patrol tactical team to arrive. A full hour. Seven armed officers to one 18 year-old. The good guys with the guns?
Shane Holmberg
@shane_holmberg
But wait there's more.
7 inside and, are you sitting down?
150 outside. ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY.
dailymail.co.uk
Texas cops reveal there was NO armed guard on campus shooting started
At a press conference on Thursday afternoon, Victor Escalon shared new details from Tuesday's shooting including how SWAT teams took an hour to arrive to breach the classroom.
5:40 PM · May 26, 2022
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10858529/Texas-cops-reveal-NO-armed-guard-campus-gunman-walked-unlocked-door.html
IngridsLittleAngel
(1,962 posts)Police, when dealing with unarmed people (particularly of color): John Wayne.
Police, when dealing with armed people: John Wayne Bobbitt.
But, hey, better defenseless kids than armed, tough cops in body armor... Right?
ACAB.
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Disaffected
(4,568 posts)President: "General, why did our army not engage the enemy??
General: "Because they could have been shot".
msongs
(67,441 posts)captain queeg
(10,242 posts)If you are a bigger sissy than trump its pretty telling.
RussBLib
(9,035 posts)to hang out and wait for people to be murdered?
yeah, I'd say we need police reform.
keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)I would never imagine that a police spokesman would say/admit that.