Both of the big mass shootings of the last few days are unraveling, exposing a sloppy mess of lies and hoaxes.
As I reported earlier this week, in Uvalde, 40 cops were outside of the school for 40 minutes and refused to enter the building while the shooter was killing everyone. They were apparently waiting for the shooter to run out of bullets.
The parents were ready to rush in themselves – so the police had to arrest them to… protect the shooter?
Fox News:
On Thursday, the Uvalde Police Department Chief Daniel Rodriguez released a statement saying its officers responded to reports of a shooter “within minutes,” alongside school district officers. Two responding officers sustained gunshot wounds.
“This is an ongoing investigation that is being led by the Texas Rangers. I understand questions are surfacing regarding the details of what occurred. I know answers will not come fast enough during this trying time, but rest assured that with completion of the full investigation, I will be able to answer all the questions that we can,” Rodriguez wrote.
Angeli Rose Gomez, a parent of two children in second and third grade at Robb Elementary, told The Wall Street Journal that Texas Rangers arrested her for intervening in an active situation after she and other parents urged police to enter the school building while the suspect was believed to be inside.
“The police were doing nothing,” she told the outlet. “They were just standing outside the fence. They weren’t going in there or running anywhere.”
Authorities have said the shooting suspect barricaded himself inside a fourth-grade classroom before fatally shooting 21 people. An agent with the Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC), is believed to have fatally shot the suspected gunman.
Videos posted on social media from the day of the shooting show frustrated parents and onlookers begging police to enter the building.
“Go in there! Go in there!” onlookers shouted at the officers soon after the attack began, said Juan Carranza, 24, who saw the scene from outside his house, across the street from Robb Elementary School in the close- knit town of Uvalde. Carranza said the officers did not go in.
Javier Cazares, whose fourth-grade daughter, Jacklyn Cazares, was killed in the attack, said he raced to the school when he heard about the shooting, arriving while police were still gathered outside the building.
Upset that police were not moving in, he raised the idea of charging into the school with several other bystanders.
“They were unprepared,” he said of first-responders.
Minutes earlier, Carranza had watched as suspect Salvador Ramos crashed his truck into a ditch outside the school, grabbed his AR-15-style semi- automatic rifle and shot at two people outside a nearby funeral home who ran away uninjured.
There were also multiple conflicting reports regarding whether officers confronted Ramos at the school’s entrance. At first, law enforcement officials said Ramos “encountered” officers outside the school, though other reports suggested officers and suspects exchanged gunfire. Then, the Texas Department of Public Safety (TDPS) said Ramos shot at two Uvalde police officers as they arrived outside the school, behind Ramos. On Wednesday, TDPS South Texas Regional Director Victor Escalon said Ramos was “not confronted by anybody” and that no armed security guards were stationed at the school’s entrance when the suspected gunman entered.
Wew.
The official explanation right now is that they couldn’t kill the shooter because the door to the room he was in was locked. They needed a key for the lock. They had to wait for the janitor.
I’m not sure, but I’m pretty sure I’ve heard of cops opening locked doors before.
Of course, this is an obvious lie besides, because they didn’t even go in the school at all until after shooting had stopped. So it wasn’t a matter of the door being locked.
The cops are blaming a teacher at time of writing.
The pigs were literally jogging around the school to hold a perimeter to keep parents from going in to try to save their kids.
I guess that’s one Border Patrol agent and one local cop. Those two look like some kind of spooks, frankly – but hey, who knows, right? Maybe everything they are saying right now is true. The story keeps changing and they keep admitting that they were lying, but maybe right now we caught them at a time when they are telling the truth?
As far as the theory that they are cowards – there were 40 cops outside the school, and the feds were in charge. The feds could have just told the local cops to go in. Even if everyone there was a coward, someone had the authority to force someone else to go in.
Speaking of authority – the feds are now claiming that the local cops stopped them from entering the school.
According to the sources of the New York Times:
When specially equipped federal immigration agents arrived at the elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, the local police at the scene would not allow them to go after the gunman who had opened fire on students inside the school, according to two officials briefed on the situation.
The agents from Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrived at some point between 12 and 12:10 p.m., according to the officials — far earlier than previously known. But they did not breach the adjoining classrooms of the school where the gunman had locked himself in until a little before 1 p.m. Members of the federal tactical team killed the gunman.
The officials said that members of the Uvalde Police Department kept the federal agents from going in sooner.
The new details deepened questions about the tactics used to respond to the shooting and the length of time it took officers on the scene to end the carnage.
The director of the Texas Department of Public Safety was expected to hold a news conference about the shooting and the police response Friday.
The federal agents reported that they arrived to a scene of chaos — people pulling children out of windows while the local police, carrying only handguns and a few rifles, were trying to secure a perimeter, according to one official, who like the other spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.
The Border Patrol and ICE agents did not understand why they were left to wait, according to the official. Eventually, the specialized Border Patrol team went into the building.
Don’t federal agents have rank in a situation like this?
Even if they didn’t have rank, it seems like if you were anything other than a total piece of shit, you would just go in the school and stop the little kids from getting shot – right?
And there really isn’t much risk here anyway, frankly – if you’re a cop with a crew going in to face one untrained insane teenager, you can take him out, bing, bang, bong.
It just doesn’t seem like cowardice and/or incompetence explain this. They could have just let the Mexicans in.
What is appears is that they wanted as many dead as possible. It also appears that they sent multiple law enforcement agencies so that they could all blame each other.
Officially at time of writing (though it might have changed since I started typing this sentence!), the excuse is that the police chief changed the status of the situation from “active shooter” to “barricaded suspect.” That meant that they just establish a perimeter and run around in circles.
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