Article

2022-05-27 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Prof. Glenn Reynolds on ‘Failure to Protect’

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Glalet Slaiger2825 2022-05-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Until the doctrine of "sovereign immunity" is put to rest, this will go nowhere.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-27 02:06|| 2022-05-27 02:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Border Patrol Officer who took out the mass shooter was getting a hair cut, got a text from his wife who is a teacher at Uvalde elementary school and whose 10 year old daughter is an elementary students there, that there is an active shooter there, "Help!". He borrowed a shotgun, went in and shot the shooter while taking a round across the top of his baseball cap and was wounded by another round during his firefight with the attacker.

Posted by Crons Tholush7614 2022-05-27 02:23|| 2022-05-27 02:23|| Front Page Top

#3 The irony of Joe Biden may have to honor a border patrol agent who otherwise are not allowed to do their job.

Posted by Crons Tholush7614 2022-05-27 02:27|| 2022-05-27 02:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Did this brave officer act as part of the 'on site' LE team or was his an independent act intended to end the carnage ?

Posted by Besoeker 2022-05-27 02:29|| 2022-05-27 02:29|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ No. He will be fired for "breaking protocol" and not letting the body count climb higher.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-27 02:30|| 2022-05-27 02:30|| Front Page Top

#6 I hope someone is scouring the videos looking for the guys with the high and tight haircuts and khakis lingering across the street.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-27 02:32|| 2022-05-27 02:32|| Front Page Top

#7 CORRECTION:. The above border patrol agent was not the one who shot the shooter, he was on one of the teams going from class room to class room evacuating kids and searching for the shooter.

Posted by Crons Tholush7614 2022-05-27 02:38|| 2022-05-27 02:38|| Front Page Top

#8 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10858885/Hero-CBP-cop-rushed-Texas-massacre-school-shotgun-teacher-wife-texted-Help.html

Posted by Crons Tholush7614 2022-05-27 02:41|| 2022-05-27 02:41|| Front Page Top

#9 Gomez has two children in second and third grade and she said she drove 40 miles to the school after hearing of the attack.

She was one of the desperate parents who encouraged police with increasing urgency to enter the school.

Eventually, federal marshals put Gomez in handcuffs and told her she was under arrest for intervening in an active investigation, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Angeli Gomez jumped the school fence and ran inside the school where she rescued her children herself

Gomez said she was able to convince a Uvalde officer whom she knew to have the marshal free her and she took the opportunity to move away from the crowd, jump the school fence, and ran inside the school where she rescued her children herself.

Posted by Crons Tholush7614 2022-05-27 02:55|| 2022-05-27 02:55|| Front Page Top

#10 Well. The "protocols" didn't stop the carnage. But they did corral people who were trying to stop the carnage.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-27 03:00|| 2022-05-27 03:00|| Front Page Top

#11 Read the over 2,000 hostile comments on the Uvalde Police Department Facebook page before they turn off commenting.

https://www.facebook.com/uvaldepd

Posted by Crons Tholush7614 2022-05-27 03:12|| 2022-05-27 03:12|| Front Page Top

#12 ^ Thankless job. Don't get the idea I am anti police.

As I said yesterday, maybe it's time to stop putting fish in a barrel.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-27 03:15|| 2022-05-27 03:15|| Front Page Top

#13 Whomever the officer who put that lady in handcuffs should be the first to go. She was doing what he should have been doing.

Posted by Chris 2022-05-27 09:54|| 2022-05-27 09:54|| Front Page Top

#14 Over and over again we find failures, anomalies, hinky people and just a general surreal weirdness surrounding these events. Last night Tucker Carlson compared our response to these shootings to airplane crashes. The crashes, he noted, are thoroughly investigated to determine what went wrong and how it can be corrected. But the responses to the shootings are hysteria and political posturing. Well, there's something right there that needs to be corrected.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-05-27 11:57|| 2022-05-27 11:57|| Front Page Top

#15 The hysteria comes from the media and the political posturing comes from...well, you know.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-05-27 12:01|| 2022-05-27 12:01|| Front Page Top

#16 Rationality is another thing the left will outlaw.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-27 12:02|| 2022-05-27 12:02|| Front Page Top

#17 Also listened some to LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva on KFI's John and Ken Show. A sensible guy in a crazy town, Sheriff Villanueva told John and Ken that the job of law enforcement in a situation like this is to run toward the shooting and engage the shooter.

"That's the job," he said.

Calling for backup and helping the victims can wait, he said. There is no ideal solution but the main thing is to stop the shooter.

But host John Kobylt later asserted that in a small town like Uvalde you will not find the best police officers because the best ones will moved to bigger cities where they can make more money.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-05-27 12:12|| 2022-05-27 12:12|| Front Page Top

#18 run toward the shooting and engage the shooter

Well, that's what we were instructed in case of an ambush - charge the shooters.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-05-27 16:08|| 2022-05-27 16:08|| Front Page Top

#19 you will not find the best police officers

Probably true. But the best people are not determined by pay.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-27 16:12|| 2022-05-27 16:12|| Front Page Top

#20 And will pass / enforce these laws?

Posted by Ebbaise Brown5939 2022-05-27 17:31|| 2022-05-27 17:31|| Front Page Top

#21 Seems to me that the police chief of the Uvalde Police Dept, etc.and others in charges should be held responsible and fired!

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2022-05-27 21:22|| 2022-05-27 21:22|| Front Page Top

23:59 Billy Budd
23:56 Jean-Paul
23:53 Billy Budd
23:50 trailing wife
23:40 Oye Como Va
23:36 Jean-Paul
23:32 Palmerston
23:24 Billy Budd
23:16 trailing wife
23:14 Oye Como Va
22:58 Billy Budd
22:49 trailing wife
22:35 Guillibaldo Lumumba5603
22:28 Palmerston
22:10 DooDahMan
21:22 Seeking Cure For Ignorance
21:19 Billy Budd
21:03 Jean-Paul
20:53 Oye Como Va
20:48 Jean-Paul
20:45 Thing From Snowy Mountain
20:33 Jean-Paul
20:22 Frank G
20:16 Billy Budd