The Uvalde police department has come under fire after it was revealed that the gunman that murdered 19 students and two faculty members during a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, was in the building for 90 minutes before being killed.
Furious members of the public have taken to the department’s Facebook page to express their ire at the department’s delayed response.
In a post expressing the department’s condolences, a responder shot back at the department for its inaction.
Here’s what one commenter wrote, receiving hundreds of likes:
“You all sat out there and scratched your butts while forcefully blocking parents from doing the job you refused to.”
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.
“Thank you sincerely for arriving at the scene so quickly and subsequently doing nothing to prevent the slaughter of children for close to an hour,” another angry commenter posted.
The department took further heat after reports emerged that law enforcement not only did not rush in to stop the shooter but restrained some of the parents who were outside the building begging them to do something. Some of those parents wanted to band together and go in themselves, but law enforcement reportedly stopped them.
A commenter said in a Facebook post, “the cowardly and ineffective police department in the US right now is the Uvalde police department, who would prefer tackling grieving parents to the ground over protecting a school full of children.”
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.
The Gateway Pundit commented further:
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.
The School Resource Officer (SRO) on scene failed to stop the shooter and was wounded as the killer entered the school. I am curious to know whether or not this SRO was trained in defensive and tactical shooting. Going to a gun range and shooting at paper targets while standing behind a shooting bench is a waste of time and ammunition in preparing for this type of situation. A SRO must be trained to draw from a holster while under stress and accurately hit a target ten yards away in less than three seconds. The training also should include learning how to move while shooting and landing accurate shots. The SRO also must know how to identify and use cover (i.e, a wall or column or barrier that can stop a bullet). A properly trained SRO should be required to shoot accurately from cover as part of the qualification course of fire.
This kind of training is something every SRO should do at least once a month. If you wait to learn this skills until the first shots are fired, you are likely to wind up wounded or dead. The reality is that the majority of SROs in the country probably have had no such training.
I realize Uvalde is a small town and probably did not allocate much funding to training police much lessSchool Resource Officers. Let me remind you what a trained security officer can do. This incident took place at White Settlement, Texas in December 2019. A guy showed up at a local church and started shooting. Note that barely three seconds pass between the killer’s first shot and the return fire by the security guard at the back of the church. If you focus on the left side of the clip you will see the security guard draw and fire. One shot to the head of the assailant ended the threat.
Watch it here: Rumble Video via TGP
Source: TheGatewayPundit
