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To serve and protect is not how it went down in Uvalde, Texas on May 24th at the Robb Elementary School when a gunman took the lives of 19 children and two teachers while the police waited in their safe space.
It turns out the police knew the gunman was locked inside a classroom with young, terrified children, and they knew the bastard had already fired many rounds, but they did nothing to serve and protect. As the gunman continued shooting, the cops had to know that some of those bullets were piercing the bodies of children, likely not killing every child he shot, but wounding them and putting their young lives on a timeline with death as they laid bleeding.
The cops waited in the safe space of the hallway for 45 minutes. They had to know some of the kids needed immediate medical help, but they waited, safely away from the danger, neglecting their sworn oath to serve and protect.
The police chief, Pete Arredondo, along with other law enforcement personnel at the scene knew that some of the kids were still alive, the documents revealed. There was also a report from a school district police officer whose wife, a teacher at the school, was wounded and had spoken to him by phone from one of the classrooms as she slowly bled out.
The police chief, Pete Arredondo, along with other law enforcement personnel at the scene knew that some of the kids were still alive, the documents revealed. There was also a report from a school district police officer whose wife, a teacher at the school, was wounded and had spoken to him by phone from one of the classrooms as she slowly bled out.
For 45 minutes.
More than a dozen of the 33 children and three teachers originally in the two classrooms remained alive during the total of 77 minutes from the time the shooting began inside the classrooms to when four officers made entry, investigators have determined. By that time, 60 officers had assembled on scene.
Arredondo, who had initially focused on evacuating other classrooms, began to talk about breaching the room where the shooter was holed up ABOUT AN HOUR AFTER HE STARTED HIS KILLING at 11:33 a.m. The Chief finally did so after several shots could be heard inside the classrooms, after a long lull, around 12:21 p.m., video footage showed.
The cops didn’t breach the classroom and shoot the gunman until 12:50, half an hour after the shots at 12:21 for them to get inside, when every second counts for them to serve and protect.
The teacher who was wounded had called her policeman husband from inside the classroom and he told his fellow officers on scene about the call when he arrived there at 11:48. His fellow officers waited over an hour from that point before they mustered up the courage to go in.
The officer's wife, who had called him died in the ambulance.
Three children who were wounded were still alive when the brave cops finally got to them. They all died at the hospital. “He could have been saved,” said one man of his 10-year-old grandson. “The police did not go in for more than an hour. He bled out.”
Apparently, they were held back because there were no protective shields for officers at the scene and they were scared of getting hurt while attempting to serve and protect.
The shields had to be retrieved and that wasted time, in spite of the previous training the district cops had weeks prior to the mass shooting. One would think necessary equipment would be at the ready for such an event.
But the clusterfrack didn't end there.
The local police radio system didn't work properly inside the school. Classroom doors couldn't be locked quickly in an emergency. The exterior door from which the shooter entered the school, did not lock automatically.
All the police hung back for 40 minutes, perhaps hoping the shooter would run out of ammunition or maybe his gun would jam, or maybe there were no more children to shoot. The cops stayed a safe distance in their safe spaces in the hallway, all wearing uniforms they apparently did not deserve to wear.
Arrendondo didn't even have a radio when he arrived at the carnage, and it was discovered that the radios had been designed for longer-distance communication, not in the close confines of a building.
The radios were apparently designed for longer-distance communication, not the close confines of a building. Arredondo didn’t even have a radio when he got there. And the exterior door through which the shooter entered didn’t lock automatically either.
The radios were apparently designed for longer-distance communication, not the close confines of a building. Arredondo didn’t even have a radio when he got there. And the exterior door through which the shooter entered didn’t lock automatically either.
Some of the cops who first arrived on scene had rifles, meaning they were not outgunned by the shooter.
The district wants to hire more school police, as if the 60 cops on scene weren't enough. It isn't the number of cops responding to a mass shooting--it's the willingness of the cops you already have to serve and protect.
A former FBI agent who developed the Bureau's active-shooter protocol was asked by the media [NPR] about her thoughts of the response in Uvalde. “That the law enforcement was there for an hour on the other side of a wall is just unheard of. I couldn’t have written this if I’d written a script,” she said.
The district wants to hire more school police, as if the 60 cops on scene weren't enough. It isn't the number of cops responding to a mass shooting--it's the willingness of the cops you already have to serve and protect.
A former FBI agent who developed the Bureau's active-shooter protocol was asked by the media [NPR] about her thoughts of the response in Uvalde. “That the law enforcement was there for an hour on the other side of a wall is just unheard of. I couldn’t have written this if I’d written a script,” she said.
"The FBI rule is simple: When you’re responding to a mass shooting, you move towards the shooter until he stops you or you stop him.
"When there is active shooting underway, even if it’s a single officer, you must pursue to the sound of the shooting or where you believe the shooter is. You must pursue all the way to the shooter and neutralize the shooter. That is the lone objective, and that — you should never waver from that.
"A law enforcement officer, if they’re trained, should continue moving forward, even if it means busting through a door, shooting through a door. I recognize the risks that are going through their heads, ‘oh, my gosh, there’s children in that classroom. I don’t want to hurt a child. I don’t want to’ — but we need to pursue, pursue, pursue, because the shooters have already proven that they’re willing to kill people, and they’ll continue doing it. That’s why the priority is, you keep moving forward, even if it means you go through walls and if you go through windows and if you go through doors."
The Uvalde PD has offered no comment as to whether Pete Arrondondo is still Police Chief. If he is, then the clusterfrack is not over.
"When there is active shooting underway, even if it’s a single officer, you must pursue to the sound of the shooting or where you believe the shooter is. You must pursue all the way to the shooter and neutralize the shooter. That is the lone objective, and that — you should never waver from that.
"A law enforcement officer, if they’re trained, should continue moving forward, even if it means busting through a door, shooting through a door. I recognize the risks that are going through their heads, ‘oh, my gosh, there’s children in that classroom. I don’t want to hurt a child. I don’t want to’ — but we need to pursue, pursue, pursue, because the shooters have already proven that they’re willing to kill people, and they’ll continue doing it. That’s why the priority is, you keep moving forward, even if it means you go through walls and if you go through windows and if you go through doors."
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The Uvalde PD has offered no comment as to whether Pete Arrondondo is still Police Chief. If he is, then the clusterfrack is not over.
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