What Were Police Thinking? News About
the Uvalde School Shooting Just Keeps
Getting Worse and Worse
PJ Media,
by
Paula Bolyard
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
6/20/2022 9:59:21 PM
The details of the horrific massacre at a Texas elementary school continue to emerge, and it seems the more we learn the worse things look for the police who responded to the call. Let me preface this by saying two things: First, we still don’t have all the details about the shooting in which an 18-year-old gunman killed 19 students and two teachers and wounded 17 other people at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Second, police have incredibly difficult jobs, requiring them to make split-second decisions while under enormous pressure under extremely dangerous and stressful situations.
That said, the latest news from the investigation into the shooting
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 6/20/2022 10:03:18 PM (No. 1191978)
Cowards only think about their own safety, and to hell with anyone else.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MickTurn 6/20/2022 10:09:53 PM (No. 1191983)
Uvalde smells like a Democrap Run City...maybe that is why the cops let everyone get murdered...ON PURPOSE!
20 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
BarryNo 6/20/2022 10:11:34 PM (No. 1191986)
Just a simple question: if the reporting on the chief's call to the police department is an exact quote, how did he know the shooter had an AR15, soecifically? It could have been any sporting rifle with a pistol grip - the even sound the same because of the ammo.
Why did he say the shooter "has an AR15"?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Ribicon 6/20/2022 10:43:44 PM (No. 1191999)
They were thinking, the training we did a year ago at this very school, using this same scenario, taught us to stand here and wait until orders arrived telling us what to do. The training their bosses received told them to forget their radios and wait for instructions, and the training the killer received from his online handlers, same as happened with the Buffalo grocery store shooter and the "retired federal agent" who was grooming him online, is known only to them.
9 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
Rinktum 6/20/2022 11:03:19 PM (No. 1192008)
I do not wish to jump to conclusions but it is becoming very hard to understand the thinking of law enforcement that day. This was a kid in the room not some trained and fully capable adult warrior. A kid. Probably a loud distraction would have spooked him. I know this is pure speculation on my part, but I cannot for the life of me understand how grown men could stand in the hall while children were being terrorized and shot and do nothing. It breaks my heart to think that these children were begging to be rescued and that did not happen. I honestly do not believe I could live with myself if I did not attempt to do something. Why not create a distraction? The shooter had no idea who was outside. The whole SWAT team and police force could have been there. It just all seems so senseless.
17 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
smcchk 6/20/2022 11:16:44 PM (No. 1192020)
This town will never heal - not with police standing by while children were murdered. More lives will be destroyed.if only…..
14 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
TXknitter 6/20/2022 11:34:31 PM (No. 1192036)
I listen to very respected law enforcement people on War Room like Bernie Kerik as well as retired TX sheriffs. They have had no problem saying or hinting there is inexcusable incompetence at the least or something very dirty going on with all those in charge that day worst case, So I do not believe we jump to conclusions with our questions about this police “force.” How any of those men have not turned in their badges is absolutely appalling.
16 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
formerNYer 6/20/2022 11:41:05 PM (No. 1192040)
I've said it from the day it happened - SOMETHING STINKS ABOUT THIS WHOLE TRAGIC EPISODE
16 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Birddog 6/21/2022 12:13:16 AM (No. 1192050)
"The fact that police—even the ones equipped with tactical gear—dithered as their children were slaughtered will no doubt haunt the parents of these poor children for the rest of their lives."
It's going to haunt every one of those cops too...for life.
You carry around the body, to one extant or another, of everyone you have had to kill. The heaviest though are the ones you did not save, and might have.
I would have expected some "retirements" by now already, and some suicides soon.
9 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/21/2022 1:53:14 AM (No. 1192084)
We don't care what they were thinking, what matters is what they did, which was nothing.
17 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 6/21/2022 6:31:51 AM (No. 1192172)
I am sick to my stomach over this.
7 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
bighambone 6/21/2022 8:01:42 AM (No. 1192253)
What happened is that local and county law enforcement followed the orders of the local Chief of Police on the scene to stand back and follow the police protocols for dealing with a barricaded perpetrator. That was the mistake, as it is established law enforcement protocol that once a perpetrator starts shooting a firearm, they say the Uvalde perpetrator shot about 140 rounds while he was inside the school, the perpetrator is no longer to be considered a barricaded perpetrator, but to be a live shooter. The established law enforcement protocol for a live schooler, especially in a school, is for law enforcement to immediately engage him with deadly force, with the intention of either capturing or killing him. So it appears that local law enforcement at Uvalde followed their Chief’s field orders.
But after federal US Border Patrol Agents arrived on the scene, they disregarded the orders of the local Chief of Police, and a number of Border Patrol Agents took it upon themselves, according to media reports, to enter the school, where they made contact with the perpetrator and killed him by shooting him. The rumblings in DC are that the Biden crew and leftist Democrats in the Congress are going to investigate the actions of those Border Patrol Agents, obviously looking towards disciplining them or even criminally prosecuting them. There is a back story to that, as one of the teachers in the school is married to a Border Patrol Agent, and apparently a number of children of Border Patrol Agents were students at that school.
10 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 6/21/2022 8:03:24 AM (No. 1192254)
Take a look at society. How we all kowtowed to the government mandates and put on our little masks and stood inline at a 6 foot distances while awaiting further orders.
9 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 6/21/2022 8:38:47 AM (No. 1192283)
Why bother to fund a police department? The parents of these children could and would have, done a better job. Hard to imagine how any of these woosies could continue to live in the community.
6 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 6/21/2022 9:33:58 AM (No. 1192340)
The CINOs (Cops In Name Only) at Uvalde were cowards, and a disgrace to the badge.
4 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
MDConservative 6/21/2022 9:51:01 AM (No. 1192387)
There is a reason for all this "confusion"...the real story is full of plain negligence that needs to be covered up. Who opened that exterior door, kept open with a rock, that later would not secure because of a "faulty" lock? Do you really want to know? I can guess.
Why was the police response so unresponsive to danger? Was it confusion over chain of command, ineptitude, or cowardice? Inability to communicate? Maybe the professional protocols in force. It's a sad day for police, fully demonstrating the ineffectiveness of "the badge" fully up to Gilbert and Sullivan standards. But, the kneejerkers still want 100,000 more "heroes".
Negligence by our trusted educational and law enforcement professionals is at the heart of this tragedy, compounded by apparent cowardice by the score of police at the scene exercising a modicum of personal safety while the gun barked inside. And that's the story no one wants told or to hear.
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Was there a reason...like was this a purposeful law enforcement crime? Use this horrific crime to get complete control of people having guns? End the second amendment? Why would law enforcement wait, in the school corridor while teachers and students were being murdered? Someone told them it was a no-go to rescue? News keeps filtering out about law enforcement "waiting." Why? Publicity for gun control? Every day some new theory comes out of Uvalde. Even investigating the Border Patrol agents for not following "the" order to stay and wait. Bless them for acting in a positive way. The sadness for the families and friends increases.
3 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
Kate318 6/21/2022 11:58:51 AM (No. 1192504)
Perhaps they were under orders. These are not random shootings.
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