Uvalde Police Face Criticism Over Response
to Texas School Shooting
American Greatness,
by
Debra Heine
Original Article
Posted By: DW626,
5/27/2022 6:15:11 AM
Law enforcement authorities in Uvalde, Texas are facing questions and criticism over how much time elapsed during the elementary school shooting Tuesday, before a U.S. Border Patrol team burst in and shot the gunman to death, the Associated Press reported.
There were conflicting reports on Thursday regarding the timeline of events, with some eyewitnesses saying police hesitated outside the building as the gunman, Salvador Ramos, was inside shooting schoolkids, while officials say the police engaged immediately.
The 18-year-old’s shooting rampage lasted 40 minutes to an hour, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw initially told reporters.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 5/27/2022 7:00:49 AM (No. 1167385)
I expected better of Texans. I recall the Texas Tower shooter back in the 60s (?).......folks from all around were pulling up in their pickup trucks, grabbing their deer rifles and engaging the Clown at the top.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Rich323 5/27/2022 7:31:31 AM (No. 1167398)
One local news story said Uvalde Police department just complete active shooter training sessions at the local high school in March 2022.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/27/2022 7:56:44 AM (No. 1167415)
The whole department needs to be fired. There was too much cowardice and incompetence on display and parents were abused. There is no excuse for trained men afraid to engage one crazed teenager. None.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
3XALADY 5/27/2022 8:04:27 AM (No. 1167418)
I just wonder what has happened to our LEO's. I read that at least one parent was tazed and one was thrown to the ground. Another poster indicated they had gotten their OWN children out. W.T.H.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
hershey 5/27/2022 8:15:06 AM (No. 1167433)
Why did they wait for Border Patrol when Rangers and Sheriffs deputies were already on site?
I was a Resource Officer and I'll tell you that sh*( wouldn't have happened on my watch.....
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 5/27/2022 11:30:38 AM (No. 1167661)
Yes, the should be criticized. The more we learn the more we see that their actions were that of cowards and poorly trained fools.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bighambone 5/27/2022 11:38:37 AM (No. 1167673)
Modern law enforcement protocols regarding law enforcement response to school shootings mandates that upon law enforcement arrival, if the shooter has been or is firing a gun inside the school, he or she is considered to be an “active shooter” and that arriving law enforcement officers must immediately gain entry to the school at the risk of their lives, to locate, confront the shooter, if possible urge the shooter to surrender, and if that is not feasible to kill the shooter.
However initial media reports indicate the local Uvalde, County, and State law enforcement officers did not follow that established protocol, since the shooter had apparently stopped shooting they instead considered the matter to be a “barricaded hostage situation” so they set up a perimeter and called for a trained law enforcement negotiator who they expected after arrival to negotiate the shooter’s surrender to law enforcement. The huge problem with that decision is that it was a sure thing that when the shooter was firing his rifle inside the school, that he had already killed (murdered) and wounded a number of people some of who would be obviously bleeding out needing immediate medical attention. Also at any moment the shooter could continue shooting, killing, and wounding additional people. School shooters are mostly all severely mentally ill individuals who are much more likely to commit what amounts to be suicide by cop then gain a relationship with a law enforcement negotiator. It looks like, from initial reports, that it was about an hour before an extensively well trained U.S. Border Patrol tactical team arrived at the scene, almost immediately gained entry to the school, confronted, and killed the shooter at great risk to their lives.
While not germane to the Uvalde situation. Since assuming office Biden has been vilifying the Border Patrol, Border Patrol Agents, and even their horses, as being racists who use excessive force on a routine basis while arresting illegal aliens who the Border Patrol Agents encounter on the borderline unlawfully entering the USA. Other extreme Democrat supporters of mass uncontrolled illegal immigration have demanded that the Border Patrol be completely disarmed. Just the day after the murders in Uvalde, Biden using the George Floyd family as props, signed an executive order that precludes federal law enforcement agencies, including the Border Patrol, from obtaining heavy duty equipment from the military that federal SWAT Team like tactical units deem necessary to effectively do their jobs under very extreme life threatening circumstances.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
privateer 5/27/2022 5:41:50 PM (No. 1167978)
Let's Roll! said the parents. Don't You Dare! said the Headstone Kops.
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