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2022-06-21 -Lurid Crime Tales-
WHY didn't they go in? Chilling first image emerges from inside Texas school showing cops with rifles and ballistic shields in corridor 19 minutes after gunman entered - but they waited another FIFTY-EIGHT MINUTES to storm classroom
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • A freeze-frame from surveillance cameras inside Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, show police inside the building at 11:52am on May 24

  • The gunman, lor:maroon;>Salvador Ramos, had entered the school 19 minutes earlier, but was not shot dead until 12:50pm

  • Serious questions have been raised as to why the police did not immediately storm the school and end the massacre

  • Monday's new detail will heap further pressure on Uvalde police as the grieving parents and relatives of the 19 children and two teachers demand answers
Posted by Skidmark 2022-06-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 Just like Columbine, Sandy Hook, and Parkland
Police more concerned about getting hurt than protecting children
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom  2022-06-21 07:44||   2022-06-21 07:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Stop. Putting. Fish. In. Barrels.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-21 07:51||   2022-06-21 07:51|| Front Page Top

#3 More fallout from the Consolidation of School Districts in the 1950's.

Hat tip to the central planners.

[sarc off]
Posted by Besoeker 2022-06-21 08:27||   2022-06-21 08:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Hard to push an anti-gun narrative if you let the police do their job. Of course, in most cases, there is no legal obligation for the police to protect anyone. Dial 9-1-1 and Die.
Posted by DooDahMan 2022-06-21 08:30||   2022-06-21 08:30|| Front Page Top

#5 But be a doctor or nurse and pass up a car wreck and there will be consequences.
Posted by Chris 2022-06-21 09:45||   2022-06-21 09:45|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ Actually, be a health care professional volunteering at any accident scene and watch the ambulance chasers circle overhead...
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-21 09:49||   2022-06-21 09:49|| Front Page Top

#7 I was wrong. It looked like a closed scene because everyone was walking about and standing around looking.

Gets worse every day. Stuff like suits to prevent body camera release, that the chief is an AA hire, or worse waiting for instructions from a political officer, not trying an alleged suite door.

Still the shooter's fault, and anything but a mentally addled LGB connection is allowed, but damn man.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-06-21 11:14||   2022-06-21 11:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Cops always like to say, "If you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about." Cops also like to point to "lawyering up" as a tacit admission of guilt.

So what are they saying with their post event stances here?
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-21 11:20||   2022-06-21 11:20|| Front Page Top

#9 ^^ good point
Posted by Chris 2022-06-21 11:50||   2022-06-21 11:50|| Front Page Top

#10 Mother-may-I syndrome. Often an effect of micro-management by those 'in charge'.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-06-21 11:52||   2022-06-21 11:52|| Front Page Top

#11 Lots of fault going around it seems, poor leadership (ignorance and cowardice?), failure to understand the lessons of prior shootings and the need for aggressive, dynamic entry, multi-agency confusion, the list goes on and on. But the one question I have from a macro perspective is the impact of years of seeing LE found personally liable when their agencies failed to defend them. You make a mistake being aggressive, and you lose everything, pension, job, even your personal freedom. George Floyd, Freddie Grey, Michae Brown, the list goes on ad nauseam. We have moved from immunity whenthe officer has the best intent and acts on it, to liability when a race hustler like Benjamin Crump takes the case and your agency folds up on you. When you doubt your agency has your back, you doubt the wisdom of making decision and punt upwards. What you tend to get eventually get are the SFPD drones who take reports and avoid any pursuit actions. LE is becomming less a great career than a lifetime course in minefield avoidance for a great pension.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-06-21 13:02||   2022-06-21 13:02|| Front Page Top

#12 ^ Yes. If the perp is anything other than a middle aged white guy with MAGA tattoos, the cries of "police murdered a brown person" will be instant and shrill. In this case, it was a brown cross-dresser and the only reason the cops aren't getting Chauvin-ized is that so many school kids died and it's election year anti-gun scaremongering time.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-21 13:11||   2022-06-21 13:11|| Front Page Top

#13 Texas official: Uvalde classroom door unlocked during shooting as officers waited for keys: 'Abject failure'
Posted by Skidmark 2022-06-21 13:57||   2022-06-21 13:57|| Front Page Top

#14 Speaking of elections, when are the elections coming up in Uvalde? If the mayor and the entire city council are re-elected, there is something wrong with the people of Uvalde. If the police chief is an elected position, same thing (I don't know if police chiefs are elected or appointed there.Sheriffs are usually elected.)
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2022-06-21 14:00||   2022-06-21 14:00|| Front Page Top

#15 Quick search:
When told that the Texas Department of Public Safety said he was not cooperating, Arredondo said, “I’ve been on the phone with them every day.”

But in a statement released before that interview, the Texas Department of Public Safety said, “The chief of the Uvalde [School District] police provided an initial interview but has not responded to a request for a follow-up interview with the Texas Rangers that was made two days ago.”

Yesterday, Arredondo was sworn in as a newly elected member of the City Council. The ceremony was not open to the public. "Uvalde City Council members were sworn in today as per the city charter," Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin said in a statement. "Out of respect for the families who buried their children today, and who are planning to bury their children in the next few days, no ceremony was held."

But some criticized that Arredondo was sworn in at all.

“Rewarding failure,” one person on Twitter wrote.

“During a week where the words accountability and transparency have been all over the news and on people’s mouths, Uvalde City Council holding a secret ceremony is quite something,” Texas-based NPR reporter Sergio Martínez-Beltrán wrote.

McLaughlin said there was nothing preventing him from taking his new position. “There is nothing in the city charter, Election code, or Texas constitution that prohibits him from taking the oath of office,” he said.
Posted by Frank G 2022-06-21 14:16||   2022-06-21 14:16|| Front Page Top

#16 “There is nothing in the city charter, Election code, or Texas constitution that prohibits him from taking the oath of office,” he said.

Except a sense of shame, ethics, and honesty. Something really stinks in that town.
Posted by Frank G 2022-06-21 14:17||   2022-06-21 14:17|| Front Page Top

#17 There is nothing in the city charter, Election code, or Texas constitution that prohibits him from taking the oath of office

See: Marion Barry. Alcee Hastings. And maybe soon, Corinne Brown.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-21 14:18||   2022-06-21 14:18|| Front Page Top

#18 “There is nothing in the city charter, Election code, or Texas constitution that prohibits him from taking the oath of office,” he said.

Except a sense of shame, ethics, and honesty. Something really stinks in that town.

I understand they have quite a budget. Perhaps a financial audit?

And this SWAT team which was a no show - if the promo pic was correct, it was the most Diverse cast I"ve seen since that last Independence Day movie. Some AA hires slowing the team down, or just more bullshit?

And the (retired?) FBI agent associated with the shooter? Retired Fed got something in common with a gay teen?
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-06-21 14:54||   2022-06-21 14:54|| Front Page Top

#19 More fallout from the Consolidation of School Districts in the 1950's.

Great comment, B.
Posted by no mo uro 2022-06-21 15:46||   2022-06-21 15:46|| Front Page Top

#20 Texas official: Uvalde shooter driven by social media fame, 'abhorrent behavior' went unchecked for months
Posted by Skidmark 2022-06-21 17:55||   2022-06-21 17:55|| Front Page Top

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