Nearly 400 cops gathered at Uvalde Robb Elementary School with their heads stuck somewhere

A report was released today, Sunday, in which it states that nearly 400 officers were gathered outside the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, while a lone gunman inside the school was executing people, killing 19 kids and 2 teachers, before the cops collectively removed their heads from their butts and did something.

Perhaps they were waiting for reinforcements.

The report was compiled by a Texas House Committee and detailed a series of clusterfracks [sic] on a number of fronts — from the shooter’s family failing to identify warning signs to the school’s apparent habit of leaving doors unlocked or propped open — but the strongest condemnation was reserved for the cowardly cops who arrived on the scene and then waited to act for over an hour while sanitizing their hands, joking with each other, running from loud noises, stopping parents from charging into the room to save their child, and checking their nether regions for courage.

“They failed to prioritize saving the lives of innocent victims over their own safety,” the report read. They failed to do their sworn job to serve and protect and the report clearly said that the biggest failure was definitely a lack of manpower or equipment, but a lack of leadership, communication, and an overabundance of fear.

And while the Uvalde cops and local sheriff's deputies received the harshest criticism in the wake of the shooting, it turns out that the overwhelming majority of worst responders on the scene had been state police officers (91) and U.S. Border Patrol agents (149). The remainder of our bravest were U.S. Marshals, federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) officers, and local authorities from neighboring counties.

“These local officials were not the only ones expected to supply the leadership needed during this tragedy. Hundreds of responders from numerous law enforcement agencies — many of whom were better trained and better equipped than the school district police — quickly arrived on the scene,” the committee wrote, adding that any one of those other officers “could have helped to address the unfolding chaos.”

All that training and nobody used it. The parents had more balls than law enforcement, and that's a damn shame because they don't represent our nation's law enforcement personnel. Every one of them should consider a different profession. I suggest politics.

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The report was written by 3 committee members: Rep. Dustin Burrows (R-Lubbock); Rep. Joe Moody (D-El Paso); and former state Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman. Their goal was to create a comprehensive account of what happened in order to aid in creating new policies that might help stop such a tragedy from ever happening again.

“The Committee issues this interim report now, believing the victims, their families, and the entire Uvalde community have already waited too long for answers and transparency,” they said. 

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