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Sadness regarding the horrific school shooting in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday has quickly turned to anger as the latest reports of the incidents claim that police did not breach the classroom where the shooter was located for almost fifty minutes. Meanwhile, children and teachers remained locked in the room from the inside.
Twenty-one of them have since died and 17 more are wounded.
According to Steven McCraw, the director of Texas Department of Public Safety, the first 911 call made from the classroom, likely from a student, came at 12:03 pm. At that very moment, 19 police officers were gathered in the hallway outside the classroom. However, officers did not enter the classroom until 12:51 pm when border patrol agents used a janitor’s keys to breach the door, kill the suspect, and rescue the remaining victims.
McCraw claims that police made “the wrong decision” in allowing the victims to remain trapped with the shooter for so long. According to the information and timeline McCraw provided, the shooter fired off “over 100 rounds” during the attack and that two children who called 911 were eventually killed.
However, the choice to linger in hallway while the shooter continued to target innocent children and teachers was not the only “wrong decision” the police made. Additional reports also claim that police handcuffed, pepper-sprayed, or otherwise restrained parents who wanted to enter the school and save their children.
Angeli Rose Gomez, who has two children who attend Robb Elementary School, says that a US Marshall placed her in handcuffs for intervening in an active investigation. She eventually convinced authorities to release her. Once they did, she jumped a fence, sprinted into the school, and grabbed her children, who were, thankfully, unharmed.
There are also reports of a father who was pepper-sprayed by police to prevent him from entering the building.
The details of this horrific incident are still unfolding. We will update you as we uncover more. In the meantime, please continue to pray for the victims and their families.
Man if this is true its beyond tragic smh
“Angeli Rose Gomez, who has two children who attend Robb Elementary School, says that a US Marshall placed her in handcuffs for intervening in an active investigation. She eventually convinced authorities to release her. Once they did, she jumped a fence, sprinted into the school, and grabbed her children, who were, thankfully, unharmed. There are also reports of a father who was pepper-sprayed by police to prevent him from entering the building.”
I get the impulse if you’re a parent to go in and get your kids, but if you had everyone trying to do that, you’d have an absolute mess on your hands and a lot of innocent people dead at the hands of law enforcement.
That said, how is it we’re talking about the police showing up and f*cking up their response AGAIN just a couple of years removed from the Parkland shooting? This is what happens when you muddle people’s job with fear of reprisal and litigation if they don’t do exactly the right thing. According to the WSJ, there were kids calling 911 from inside of the classrooms saying they were hiding, so had the police acted with some semblance of common sense, we’d likely be talking about far fewer dead children.
I think we need to be careful with this. However, if some of this stuff is true, people need to hang.
Please stop calling this guy a shooter. Annie Oakley was a shooter, my daughter is one of the top 10 trap shooters in the state of TN, Private Jackson(Saving Private Ryan) was a world famous shooter. These folks that slay innocents in schools are not “shooters”, they are cowardly murders.