All the 911 calls from the kids in the rooms, all the shots being fired throughout the time he was “a barricaded subject” that shouldn’t be breached, etc. Incompetence is the kindest label you could put on this shit show. I get the command argument (although holy shit how did it take 70+ minutes for someone to grow some backbone and common sense), but to me the most clear sign of LEO’s fear for their own safety over their sworn oath was in the first few minutes of the situation.
This part from the timeline is the most damning. Subject enters building at 11:33am. At 11:35am, seven officers enter the building and because the door is locked they end their pursuit and decide to wait. Two minutes later at 11:37am - 11:44am the shooter resumes shooting (16 rounds) in the classroom but they still decide to wait. At this point, the “barricaded subject” theory is bullshit. It’s only been four minutes since the subject initially entered the building and he’s still shooting. It’s an active shooter situation and the officers froze. I’m sure the people on the receiving end of those 16 bullets were wondering why the seven police that showed up just two minutes before were playing grab ass out in the hall.
From the article:
“The suspect then entered the school via the door at 11:33 a.m. and went to the adjoining classrooms 111 and 112, where he continued shooting, McCraw said.
Two minutes later, seven officers arrived to the school and approached the locked classrooms where the gunman had barricaded himself. Two of the officers were shot by the suspect from behind the door and suffered graze wounds, McCraw said.
The gunman fired 16 more rounds inside the locked classrooms between 11:37 and 11:44 a.m., and more officers continued to arrive to the hallway, McCraw said.”
The teenage gunman in a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school came out of a classroom closet and began firing when US Border Patrol agents entered the room more than an hour after the shooter began his rampage, a source familiar with the situation told CNN on Friday.
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