TX DPS clarifies procedures for active shooter: 5 cops face investigation

The Texas Department of Public Safety has released their guidance as to how they want law enforcement to handle active shooter threats, and it certainly isn't the way they did it on May 24th in Uvalde, Texas

In the Uvalde massacre at the Robb Elementary School, DPS officers made up some of the reported 376 law enforcement agents from a number of agencies that responded to the school shooting. It was revealed Tuesday that five of those DPS officers will face an investigation to determine if they violated any policies in the response and weigh potential disciplinary action.

The newly clarified DPS instructions were included in a letter from July. It requires officers to treat anyone who fires a weapon at a school as “an active shooter until he is neutralized.” It also says that officers are to never treat an active shooter as a "barricaded subject." This is what happened during the school shooting in which the shooter was in an unlocked classroom [with terrified kids] and the cops treated it as if he was barricaded alone on there as he shot children one-by-one. 

The contents of the clarified instructions was provided by KVUE investigative reporter Tony Plohetski.

The July letter states that officers have been instructed that anyone who fires a weapon at a school "remains an active shooter until he is neutralized." That person can never be treated as a "barricaded subject." 

Uvalde students returned to school on Tuesday, somewhat later than usual as the district is beefing up security measures at all campuses, or as many see it: "closing the barn door after the horses escaped." Why does it take a tragedy before anything gets done? Why couldn't Biden allocated the money he gave to Ukraine and used it as a national security measure for American students and by doing so he would be making America great again.

Anyway, the district installed 8-foot non-scalable fencing and added security cameras. And while they will not arm teachers, they will at least get a nice video of anyone who would commit acts of violence on our children and teachers.

Aside from the obvious cowardice of the leadership of law enforcement at the Uvalde shooting, DPS and the federal government have launched investigations as to what else went wrong and how law enforcement can respond as if they had balls in the future.

“The goal of the review is to provide an independent account of law enforcement actions and responses that day, and to identify lessons learned and best practices to help first responders prepare for and respond to active shooter events,” said DOJ spokesman Anthony Coley. “The review will be conducted with the Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing.”

Law enforcement officials have faced continued criticism for their cowardly failures in their response to the active shooter threat. Officers responding to the shooting at Robb Elementary School waited outside the classroom for over an hour as the 18-year-old lone gunman murdered children and teachers inside. One cop even grabbed a cup of water from the fountain in the hallway as the shooter kept killing kids in the classroom just down the hall.

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Former Uvalde CISD Chief Pete Arredondo, who was one of the first officials on scene after the shooter entered the school, was fired by the Uvalde school board late last month and the community broke out into spontaneous applause. He needs to retire and perhaps raise a few cats--they have so much in common.

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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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Uvalde schools police chief resigns one month post school massacre

Pete Arredondo the Uvalde schools police chief has hung up his badge and resigned. Arredondo headed the police force of second responders who waited until it was safe to enter the classroom where a shooter had killed 19 students and two teachers. The Uvalde Texas schools police motto is: "We don't want any trouble."

Arredondo and his "men" waited over an hour before confronting the shooter while children and teachers bled out and died or were being shot while the cops were drawing straws to see who would go in.

Pete Arredondo was elected to the position on May 7 and sworn in during a private ceremony on May 31, a week after the gunman went on a killing spree at the Robb Elementary School.

Arredondo claims that he was not the incident commander on the day of the shooting, a bs claim disputed by the Texas Department of Public Safety, which is investigating the massacre.

To the joy of Uvalde locals, albeit melancholy, the coward said, “After much consideration, I regret to inform those who voted for me that I have decided to step down as a member of the city council for District 3."

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“The mayor, the city council, and the city staff must continue to move forward without distractions. I feel this is the best decision for Uvalde.”

Arredondo had attended City Council meetings as often as he had previously shown acts of bravery: zip.

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Uvalde mom who saved her kids says she's being harassed by the cops who stayed safely away from the action

The Uvalde, Texas mother who, on May 24, defied the cops during the Robb Elementary School shooting by going into the school while police huddled outside in safety, is now saying that she's being targeted by Uvalde police. Obviously they're embarrassed for their cowardice, but they need to stop going after her and pledge to respond bravely to danger, in the future. Due to their failure to go into the room harboring the 18-year-old shooter, 19 young students and 2 teachers died.

But Angeli Rose Gomez didn't wait in the safety of the hallway, instead, she went in to save her children, and she succeeded. 

A full 77 minutes passed before the cops grew a pair and went in, killing the shooter and saving nobody.

Now Ms. Gomez says she's being harassed by the cops, who apparently aren't afraid of her.

“The other night we were exercising and we had a cop parked at the corner like, flickering us with his headlights,” she said. according to KABB-TV.

To avoid problems, Gomez put her sons elsewhere, living apart from her “just so my sons don’t feel like they have to watch cops passing by, stopping, parking.”

How pathetic can this police force be? 

Ms. Gomez sped to the school after hearing about the shooting and was frustrated with the cowardly way the police responded. She told the Wall Street Journal in an interview that she decided to get to the school because she saw police outside the school “doing nothing.”

“They were just standing outside the fence,” she said. “They weren’t going in there or running anywhere.”

She said parents were handcuffed and pepper-sprayed when they attempted to rescue their own children.

“They didn’t do that to the shooter, but they did that to us,” Gomez said. “That’s how it felt.”

She said her efforts led to her being handcuffed until an officer she knew freed her.

“As soon as they take me off the cuff I see his arm like, give me a little gateway, because I’m real little so a little gateway where I can just run,” she said, according to KABB.

She said she jumped a fence and hit the window of a door after she spotted her older son’s teacher.

Gomez said she told the teacher, “like you already have a gateway out, so might as well just come out like if I’m going to run out with him, y’all just come on too.”

One down, one to go. Gomez said she walked through the school to find her younger son’s classroom.

“At this moment I’m jiggling the handle and I’m going pretty nuts like trying to get the door open and it’s not gonna open, so I stand back and the cops are already on me and they’re like ‘ma’am calm down!’” she said.

She said she gave police an ultimatum: Evacuate the classroom or she would not leave.

“Immediately they start evacuating that classroom and my son runs out to me and he’s like, ‘mom, mom!” she said. “I just remember when my son saw my other son, one hugged the other one and said ‘I’m so glad you’re OK’, and the other one said, ‘I was so worried you weren’t.'”

“So it was a big thing because in that moment I was like, they’re really happy to see each other, thank god to each other that they’re alive,” she said.

One person tweeted:

#AngeliGomez is a hero!! Why haven’t law enforcement been fired yet?? pic.twitter.com/2yOMNClvbY

— Shaquilla (@CHEMISTMAMI) June 22, 2022

Since the incident, Ms. Gomez has joined protests calling for Uvalde School Police Chief Pete Arredondo to be fired.

I don't believe the Uvalde School Police Chief Pete Arrendondo should be fired--I believe he should be indicted for criminal negligence or something similar. His refusal to send cops into the classroom where the gunman was holed up was cowardly, irresponsible and the cause for lives being lost that should have never been taken.

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Mark Di Carlo, Gomez's lawyer, said a lawsuit could be in the works.

“The fact that he wasn’t fired immediately based upon whatever it is, hours of video, from testimonies such as Angeli’s; is an indication that there is some sort of what, corruption or wrong-doing,” he said.

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Video proof that Uvalde cops never tried to open classroom door where shooter was

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, 

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.” 

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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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Uvalde 'copwards' knew people were wounded inside classroom, bleeding out--they waited because it was dangerous

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. 

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.

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 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."

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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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Uvalde PD stop cooperating with state amid words that make them feel unsafe

The Uvalde, Texas police department and local school district police have stopped cooperating with the Department of Safety investigation as they are feeling "unsafe" with the words being used to describe their behavior during the massacre that killed 19 children and two teachers at the Robb Elementary School. Their lack of cooperation is not surprising as we have witnessed their lack of action against the now-dead shooter, an 18-year-old mentally ill man.

"It was scary," a cop who wished to remain anonymous to avoid dangerous, scary criticism said. "I was hoping he would run out of ammo and then we'd charge him, but he was well prepared and we used strategic patience, like Barack Obama used. It didn't work out very well for all parties."

The Uvalde Police Department and Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District police force stopped cooperating Friday after they were criticized at a press conference, which made them feel unsafe and forced them to retreat to their "safe spaces."

 Steven McCraw, the head of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said the police made the "wrong decision" when they stayed a safe distance from the danger in order to go home to their wives and kids or just dogs and cats, depending upon who you asked. 

Peter Arredondo, the Uvalde school district police chief, has stayed out of sight and not responded to Texas Rangers for two days for a follow-up interview after having made initial statements following the shooting. 

Arredondo made the decision to not immediately confront the shooter at the school during his rampage last week because it was too dangerous. The "bravest" waited in a school hallway for almost 50 minutes. Fifty freaking minutes! Children were being shot and these cowards did nothing to stop him for 50 minutes.

McCraw said that Arredondo believed the situation had changed from active shooter to barricaded shooter, in spite of 911 calls coming from children inside the classroom. In spite of the training the cops received only 8 weeks prior to the rampage that clearly directs law enforcement to waste no time and confront the threat immediately once the location is known.

Then the cops didn't have a key to open the door and they worried that they might get cut if they came in through a window or perhaps have to pay for the door if they broke it down.

The entire incident was a clusterfrack of misinformation, cowardice, bad decisions, and lies. Nineteen children and two teachers were killed by this mentally ill person and the signs were there that he had a problem.

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Meanwhile the left used the opportunity to 'never let a crisis go to waste' and called for more gun control, as if that would have prevented this incident. 

Locked doors with only one school entrance, armed and trained school staff, metal detectors, faster, braver police response, and improved reporting of mental health issues, especially after threats are made, would have likely prevented this from happening, at least to the horrible degree that it did. 

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