Posted on 05/26/2022 1:32:55 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Texas cops have revealed that there was no armed guard on campus when the gunman arrived on Tuesday which allowed him to walk 'unobstructed' through an unlocked door and into the building where he slaughtered 21 people.
At a press conference on Thursday afternoon, Victor Escalon, the Regional Director for the Department of Public Safety South Texas, said Salvador Ramos walked through an unlocked door 'unobstructed' and that there was no guard 'readily available'.
It contradicts earlier reports that he fired at a school resource officer.
Ramos entered the school at 11.40am, 12 minutes after crashing his truck outside the school and walking towards campus with his AR-15. That is when police were alerted to the scene.
At 11.44am, the first cops entered the school. Ramos shot at them and they retreated.
It's unclear if he had already shot the kids and teachers in the fourth grade classroom by then, or if he went on to attack them after those cops retreated.
It then took an hour for specialized SWAT teams to arrive. At 1.06pm, the incident was declared over after Ramos was shot dead.
In the meantime, 150 cops were gathering outside. Some of them were filmed pinning parents to the floor and some were even placed in handcuffs, according to witnesses.
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And McConnell wants to negotiate away our 2A....
Of course donut-eating police with guns, armor, and license to engage, retreated.
And from 2018:
Two teens arrested in ‘mass casualty’ plot in 2018 targeting a Uvalde middle school
The threat was to shoot up a school in 2022.
Was there supposed to be? Probably, where was he?
“We’ll circle back…” says the police spokesman.
https://mobile.twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1529897622366040099
I thought we learned the lesson not to fall back and wait for SWAT with Florida’s Stoneman Douglas High School shooting?
Make them ear the bill about arming teachers, if they want Manchin - Toomey, nothing more, nothing less.
Walking in? Yikes!
But what were the feds doing there. The ones that had the ones mother handcuffed?
If true, a disgrace to the Republic of Texas…..
I wonder if they were close to Salvadore?
COPS ARE NOT FIRST RESPONDERS. THE FIRST RESPONDERS WERE THOSE TEACHERS. ARM THEM NOW.
Police had guns but were waiting for body armor. Those victims had no body armor and no guns. Nineteen children gave their lives so that dozens of police officers could go home to their families that night. Fire all government workers, starting with ‘the big guy.’ Give us back all of our tax money and we’ll use it to protect ourselves.
Not appropriate, they only do that at School board meetings.
How’s he know the back door would be open?
His entire plot could have been foiled but for a randomly open door at a school where there was a threat a few years earlier of mass slaughter?
Was Ramos one of the two teens arrested above?
And Trump just so happens to be speaking at a NRA event there a few days after this shooting?
12 minutes after crashing his truck
I thought the cops were chasing him after he shot his grandmother...Now its 12 minutes after he crashed?
This is a huge cluster on the part of LEOs. Pinning parents to the ground and handcuffing parents...WTF???THEY were at least ready to actually do something for their kids...
Instead, these clowns were there for crowd control.
> Was there supposed to be? Probably, where was he?
protecting the coffee and donuts table?? someone had to...
I’m totally cool with cops taking a pass if it is a cartel shootout or something similar, but you gotta Rambo up in this situation. Kids at an elementary school?!...even on a selfish level, wouldn’t want to have that on my mind afterwards, turn the fear into rage and go!
"and they retreated"
At a loss for words - just hope they never get a night's sleep again.
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