sc94597 said:
The original police entered the school around 11:40 were not SWAT. By 12:00 though when the decision was made to not break down the door, there were police with military weapons and tactical gear themselves. The incident commander told them to not break down the door, seemingly because he assumed everyone was dead, despite the fact that there were still children calling 911. By 12:15 the border patrol who would eventually kill him arrived. They didn't kill him until 12:50. 80 minutes passed between the initial police contact and when the shooter was killed. Even the chief of police admitted it was the wrong decision. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/27/us/uvalde-texas-elementary-school-shooting-friday/index.html "From the benefit of hindsight where I'm sitting now, of course it was not the right decision," McCraw said of the supervisor's call not to confront the shooter. "It was the wrong decision. Period. There's no excuse for that." "In all, 80 minutes passed between when officers were first called to the school at 11:30 a.m. to when a tactical team entered locked classrooms and killed the gunman at 12:50 p.m., McCraw said. The tactical team was able to enter using keys from a janitor, he added." "Members of the Border Patrol tactical team, known as BORTAC, arrived with shields at 12:15 p.m. There they waited." "The delayed response runs contrary to commonly taught active shooter protocol, established after the Columbine school shooting of 1999, to stop the shooter as quickly as possible and even bypass helping the injured. The revelations also help explain why officials have offered contradictory information over the past three days as to what law enforcement did in response." "The levels of failure are just incredible, beyond belief," said Anthony Barksdale, the former acting Baltimore police commissioner." "The girl called again at 12:16 p.m. and said there were eight to nine students alive, McGraw said. Another student called 911 from Room 111 three minutes later but hung up at the urging of another student. On a 911 call at 12:21 p.m., three shots can be heard, he said." "The belief was that there may not be anybody living anymore and that the subject has now tried to keep law enforcement at bay or entice them to come in to (die by) suicide," he said. "A female student called 911 at 12:36 p.m. that lasted for 21 seconds, but then called back and was told to stay on the line and remain quiet. At 12:43 p.m. and 12:47 p.m. she asked 911 to please send police now. Finally, at 12:50 p.m., the tactical team entered the room and shot and killed the suspect." --------------------------------------------------- That's about 35 minutes border patrol was there with shields and they still did nothing but wait. |
Yer see that wasn't reported originally here. I would have expected that they storm in at 12:20 if they arrived at 12:15. therefore 100% agree no excuses here.
The regular cops is what I was referring to, to me they not trained to deal with these situations and made sense why they didn't rush in. Didn't realise the specialised unit to handle these situations also waited.
