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Law enforcement never attempted to open the door nor break it down at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where the gunman inside murdered 19 children and two teachers. The proof is in a video.
[H/T The Daily Wire]
“Surveillance footage shows that police never tried to open a door to two classrooms at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde in the 77 minutes between the time a gunman entered the rooms and massacred 21 people and officers finally breached the door and killed him,” the San Antonio Express-News reported. According to the newspaper, the information they received came from a law enforcement official who was involved with investigating how the cops responded.
But here's the biggest scandal: “Investigators believe the 18-year-old gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers at the school on May 24 could not have locked the door to the connected classrooms from the inside,” the anonymous official said.
The doors are reportedly designed so they can only be locked or unlocked from the outside, and police might have assumed that the door was locked, but they apparently weren't too keen to find out, what with all the danger on the other side.
The report said that it is not known if the door to the classroom where the 18-year-old Hispanic male was holed up was even locked.
The source said that it didn’t even matter whether the door was locked because “officers had access the entire time to a ‘halligan’ — a crowbar-like tool that could have opened the door to the classrooms even if it was locked.” But instead of using a halligan, they took a mulligan and decided to wait until it was safe to engage the shooter.
The news comes as a report from The New York Times, an excellent bird cage liner, revealed that a law enforcement official with the city, not the school district, who was armed with an AR-15 style rifle. He had the opportunity to shoot the attacker before he entered the school but didn’t fire because he saw that there were children in the background in the line of fire,
The source said that it didn’t even matter whether the door was locked because “officers had access the entire time to a ‘halligan’ — a crowbar-like tool that could have opened the door to the classrooms even if it was locked.” But instead of using a halligan, they took a mulligan and decided to wait until it was safe to engage the shooter.
The news comes as a report from The New York Times, an excellent bird cage liner, revealed that a law enforcement official with the city, not the school district, who was armed with an AR-15 style rifle. He had the opportunity to shoot the attacker before he entered the school but didn’t fire because he saw that there were children in the background in the line of fire,
Thankfully nobody took Joe Biden's advice of firing a warning shot it the air to scare the attacker and possibly kill someone a mile away when the round came back down due to a gravity situation.
“The chief deputy sheriff said that any attempt to shoot the moving gunman would have been difficult, and that the officer would undoubtedly have faced harsh criticism and possibly even a criminal investigation had he missed and hit a bystander in the distance, especially a child,” the report noted.
Uvalde's useless CISD Police Chief Pete Arredondo arrived on scene without having a radio [or a set of balls] at 11:35 a.m. as at least two responding officers were already moving into the hallway outside the classroom door where the attacker was shooting kids. Arredondo used a cell phone to call the police department to ask for a radio, a rifle, and heavily-armed backup.
“The decision to establish a perimeter outside the classroom, a little over five minutes after the shooting began, shifted the police response from one in which every officer would try to confront the gunman as fast as possible to one where officers treated the gunman as barricaded and no longer killing,” The Times reported. “Instead of storming the classroom, a decision was made to deploy a negotiator and to muster a more heavily armed and shielded tactical entry force.”
Uvalde's useless CISD Police Chief Pete Arredondo arrived on scene without having a radio [or a set of balls] at 11:35 a.m. as at least two responding officers were already moving into the hallway outside the classroom door where the attacker was shooting kids. Arredondo used a cell phone to call the police department to ask for a radio, a rifle, and heavily-armed backup.
“The decision to establish a perimeter outside the classroom, a little over five minutes after the shooting began, shifted the police response from one in which every officer would try to confront the gunman as fast as possible to one where officers treated the gunman as barricaded and no longer killing,” The Times reported. “Instead of storming the classroom, a decision was made to deploy a negotiator and to muster a more heavily armed and shielded tactical entry force.”
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Bill Francis, a former FBI agent who was a senior leader on the bureau’s hostage rescue team for 17 years, told the Times that officials “made a poor decision defining that as a hostage-barricade situation” because “the longer you delay in finding and eliminating that threat, the longer he has to continue to kill other victims.”
It's obvious that the Uvalde PD slogan should be: "You go first, I'll wait here."
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