Uvalde Shooting Report Is Brutal

[Biff_Poindexter]

Five takeaways from the damning Uvalde school shooting report

A Texas House investigative committee released a scathing 77-page report on Sunday detailing law enforcement failures in the response to a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas i…

thehill.com

"The acting police chief on duty during the May 24 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, has been placed on leave following a report on “systemic failures and egregious poor decision making” from law enforcement on scene. Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin released a statement Sunday announcing Lt. Mariano Pargas’ administrative leave. The Texas House committee investigating the shooting released a report Sunday noting failures in law enforcement leadership, including from Pargas. The committee also determined that Arredondo, who was placed on leave last month, “failed to perform” his role as incident commander — and Pargas said the two were never in contact. “Given the information known about victims who survived through the time of the breach and who later died on the way to the hospital, it is plausible that some victims could have survived if they had not had to wait 73 additional minutes for rescue,” the committee wrote."

And if you add the fact that there were nearly 400 cops at the scene of the school and they all waited over an hour before doing something -- there is really no way to spin this or deflect blame on to something else...no amount of saying "BLM made us do it" or "CRT in schools are to blame" will spin this....

Uvalde report: 376 officers but ‘egregiously poor’ decisions

A report says nearly 400 law enforcement officials rushed to a mass shooting that left 21 people dead at a Uvalde elementary school.

apnews.com

Fact of the matter is that supposedly well-trained, well-funded, well-equipped officers, with military grade protective gear, ballistic shields, nearly 400 strong -- still felt it was too dangerous to confront one crazed gunman....for whatever reason, that is what happened....will arming teachers be the better option? Who knows..will deputizing well-trained students to be armed in class be a solution? I don't know....and when you add to that that Gov Abbott had not attended a single funeral -- and still to this day; has visited a single victim's family -- I repeat, still to this day -- but had no problem going to a fundraising event the day after the shooting -- that is also hard to spin.....

Uvalde parents say they have not heard from Gov. Abbott, other Texas Lawmakers

Family members say they are struggling to hear from many Texas Lawmakers including the Governor of Texas.

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[gipper]

Shouldn’t someone be prosecuted?

 

[rightwinger]

Good guys with guns

 

[Donald H]

Good guys with guns

And lots of them too. But the good guy who turned bad had easy access to a weapon that's not meant for civilians in a country that is at war with each other.

There's no interest in changing that situation.

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

Still doesn't answer the main question.
Why did they wait so long to confront the shooter?
Why was the one and only officer (who got a text from his wife shortly before she was killed) who wanted to go in dragged out of the building and had his weapon taken from him?

Yes, they acknowledge failure after failure...but don't answer the main question.

 

[Rambunctious]

Good guys with guns

There was a good guy with a gun that stopped a mass shooter in a mall this weekend.... but he wasn't under the control of his superiors.... he was just eating lunch in the food court.....

Someone ordered these cops to wait in the hall and they are blocking that information.... Why?....

 

[Muhammed]

Still doesn't answer the main question.
Why did they wait so long to confront the shooter?

Due caution.