The horror surrounding the massacre of 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas just got worse with confirmed information that the police waited more than forty minutes before entering the school and killing the 18 year old murderer. One mother who drove to the school from 40 miles away, arrived and was detained and handcuffed for insisting on going inside to rescue her two children. She was then unhandcuffed and moved away from the crowd, jumped the fence and ran inside the school and retrieved her two kids.
This event is more than a black eye for the police. There are three possible explanations–cowardice, incompetence or slaves to doctrine. In an ideal world, police confronted with an active shooter will call immediately on a SWAT team. There was no SWAT team in Uvalde, Texas. Instead of improvising and conducting their own assault, the police chose to sit back and wait. Inexcusable.
This is not Monday morning quarterbacking. Police are supposed to be trained in crisis response. Yes, having a SWAT team and/or hostage negotiator is the preferred option. But when SWAT is not available the police have a responsibility to put their lives at risk to stop the shooter and save the children and faculty. That is why they carry pistols. It appears none of the police on scene had a long gun (i.e. an AR-15 or M-4). I doubt that is true. Given the number of local police, Department of Public Security and Border Patrol officers at the seen, at least one of them had a long gun in the trunk of their vehicle.
Cowards WHO should have Gone IN RIGHT AWAY !!!!! The Hell with the job & chain of command !!!!!
LAWSUITS are COMING !!!!!!!
PLEASE.
NEVER, EVER tell us how the police “run TOWARDS trouble”. I don’t EVER want to hear that self-promoting BS again. EVER.
That might be true, but when they get there, they parade around in full military gear, looking like they are in Afghanistan, and are too afraid of ONE GUY WITH A RIFLE.
They should be ashamed. They couldn’t use any military tactics? What was it? A hundred cops against ONE GUY and they were too f’ing AFRAID? A WOMAN — and UNARMED WOMAN (!!) — was braver and tougher than a hundred cops??! She ran into that building unarmed. Read that again, Mr. Policeman. I ain’t John Wayne, but I guarantee you I could have taken TEN men armed with just pistols and stopped that idiot. Guaranteed.
The most succinct description I ever heard of a cop was this —- A person whose JOB it is, is to protect the community and give his life, if necessary, in that endeavor.
Maybe someone should remind them of that.
BUT, ever since the Supreme Court ruled ……..wait for it now……this is true……a cop HAS NO DUTY TO PROTECT YOU, they run towards trouble and then stop because they may get hurt.
They stood around listening to the screams and cries from CHILDREN as they were being gunned down FOR AN HOUR and the BEST THEY COULD DO (!!) was restrain CITIZENS from trying to save their kids from being murdered. The entire force should RESIGN in disgrace.
It was a disgusting and utterly shameful display of cowardice from a hundred armed men wearing a badge I have ever seen. COWARDICE.
They are total bad-asses when it’s a bus full of college girls, or when they are running that highly dangerous operation called a “speed trap”, or they are kicking the door down at 3am with helicopters and marine craft and SWAT teams (to arrest a 75 year old man who may have some DOCUMENTS they want—true story), or when they are shooting some black kid from 20 feet away who has a knife he won’t throw down, or screaming down Salisbury Boulevard at 90 mph with all lights flashing and siren wailing — to pull over someone with a taillight out – another true story) REAL bad asses.
You made parents listen to their kids getting shot while dozens and dozens of armed men were too afraid to do anything but handcuff and manhandle CITIZENS??? THEY weren’t shooting anyone. You dimwitted dumbasses were beating up and attacking the wrong damn people and thought you were as macho as they come.
You are pus****.
I’m so, so sorry for the parents who paid taxes for your salary and mistakenly thought you would protect them. And their kids. The joke is on them, isn’t it??? The best protection you offer is making sure no one is doing 58 in a 50 zone.
Take your weapon, throw it in a lake, and take your radar gun and stick it straight up your…….
Just QUIT telling us how dangerous your job is and how you run to trouble when everyone else runs away.
Tell THAT the lady who made you look like terrified munchkins.
One thing you ain’t going to be able to run from is your display, on a national (and INTERNATIONAL) level, of fear and cowardice. And NO. You don’t have any “excuses”. At least none that make any sense to anyone but you.
These officers were very much out of their depth, apparently never having trained for anything more challenging than event crowd control.
but they trained just 2 months before this for this exact set up WTH
kops aint here to protect you. they are her to protect the government from you! The sooner you realize this the sooner you will learn to rely on yourself and not the government!
COMMON SENSE > GO IN regardless & SAVE the KIDS !!!!! PERIOD
If police got Fired they would be re-instated for SAVING KIDS !!!!!!! GO > IN > Right Away !!!!!
the sheriff should be swinging from the school flag pole
He BETTER go to Prison !!!!! His cops too !!!!!