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Newtown releases 911 calls showing anguish and tension inside Sandy Hook
Deseret News ^ | December 4, 2013 | Michael Melia Associated Press

Posted on 12/05/2013 9:05:53 AM PST by Uncle Chip

Recordings of 911 calls from last year's Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting were released Wednesday, and they not only paint a picture of anguish and tension inside the building, they also show Newtown dispatchers mobilizing help, reassuring callers and urging them to take cover.....

The calls were made public under a court order after a lengthy effort by The Associated Press. Prosecutors had argued that releasing the recordings would only cause more anguish for the victims' families....

One of the first callers to Newtown police was a woman who said in a trembling, out-of-breath voice: "I think there's somebody shooting in here at Sandy Hook school."

Asked what made her think so, she said: "Because somebody's got a gun. I caught a glimpse of somebody. They're running down the hallway. Oh, they're still running. They're still shooting. Sandy Hook school, please."...

Another call came from a custodian, Rick Thorne, who said that a window at the front of the school was shattered and that he kept hearing shooting.....

Thorne remained on the phone for several minutes.

"There's still shooting going on! Please!" the custodian pleaded as six or seven shots could be heard in the background. "Still, it's still going on!"

Within 11 minutes of entering the school, Lanza had fatally shot 20 children and six educators with a semi-automatic rifle. Lanza also killed his mother in their Newtown home before driving to the school. He committed suicide as police closed in.

Newtown police officers arrived at the school within four minutes of the first 911 call, but nearly six more minutes passed before they entered the building while they sorted out concerns over a possible second shooter, according to a prosecutor's report issued last week....

(Excerpt) Read more at deseretnews.com ...


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KEYWORDS: agenda; crime; democrats; generosen; newtown; obama; sandyhook
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To: Doc Savage
Do you know anyone who has ever taken a photo like that??? It is so bizarre that you immediately know it's been photoshopped.

Who takes school ID pictures with the exact same freaky wide eyed expression year after year? There are a couple of pictures that showed up of him looking like a normal happy teenager and an older version of the little kid pictures but nothing like that gaunt skeleton of supposedly the same age. Ok, those "normal" ones could be of the brother or who knows who but we'll never know because the msm hasn't bothered to follow through. One would think the aunt would have provided a couple pictures since she was so eager to paint the mom as a gun toting prepper. The coroner and the rest of the cast of characters are most questionable.

61 posted on 12/07/2013 12:08:00 PM PST by bgill
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To: delchiante

Jen was working at the 911 dispatch so either she heard it was “fake” from someone inside dispatch or she had taken a call which didn’t get publicized.


62 posted on 12/07/2013 12:12:17 PM PST by bgill
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To: autumnraine

Start at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy4CPgDOLEY&list=PLELUekH3Z93BRa-uxrIYMfAIWpLrqGUzY and it will also show the next vid of the very fake family photo with Emelie. The weed on the father’s knee, Emelie’s hair, and the square patch on the hands all very chilling. This guy’s analysis of several vids is eye opening.


63 posted on 12/07/2013 12:51:30 PM PST by bgill
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To: bgill

We don’t know anything about that person because they don’t exist. Or they saw what they weren’t supposed to see; Lanza was not the shooter or was not the only shooter.


64 posted on 12/07/2013 12:57:11 PM PST by Aurorales (I will not be ridiculed into silence!)
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To: bgill

Look, all the conspiracy stuff is fascinating in a morbid sort of way. But, it is not possible to stage this sort of event and then cover it up with the hundreds of people involved.

This terrible shooting happened. Adam Lanza was the shooter. He did use his mother’s Bushmaster AR-15 in the massacre. Facts are facts. Denying these facts makes people look like loons. No offense intended.

Here are some other facts:
1. Gun control groups and leftist politicians politicized this event and tried to rush legislation through before the public had time to really consider the implications of such legislation.

2. These gun control proponents had some success in a few legislatures before effective opposition to their legislation could be mounted.

3. Ultimately, the NRA and public reaction to these gun control efforts stopped most of this proposed legislation.

4. Most politicians know that gun control is a loser for them in elections, especially democrats in contestable seats. Democrats in safe seats will continue to push for gun control, but this will not happen as long the 2nd Amendment supporters are vigilant and more energized than those trying to take away that natural right.

5. Police response was not as fast as authorities claim. Some police arrived at the school, but did not enter the school for several minutes. This brief gap upon arrival and entry into the school almost certainly resulted in more people dying. In any event, the shooter killed a lot of defenseless people in a short period of time regardless how timely the police response. All of this just proves that making a place a “gun-free” just makes that place more vulnerable to armed criminals and lunatics. Gun control prevents law-abiding people from effectively protecting themselves.


65 posted on 12/07/2013 3:18:05 PM PST by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters for Freedom and Rededicaton to the Principles of the U.S. Constitution...)
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To: Aurorales; Uncle Chip; Prole; BerryDingle; autumnraine; 3Fingas; Doc Savage; delchiante

NOW WAIT JUST A MINUTE! Where did I miss this? The secretary who hid with the nurse in the closet over 4 bleepin’ hours in the already “cleared” school and in the same office where the cops were huddled was none other than the ex-wife of Bill Halstead, Sr., the Fire Chief/Emergency Management Director of Newton. They expect me to believe that the fire chief wouldn’t be busting down the front doors demanding where the heck his ex was? No matter the divorce, she’s the mother of his children. The fire chief’s ex-wife is “missing” for 4 hours and turns up in a closet within earshot of everything the cops are doing? Talk about a coincidence, huh.

Halstead claims he didn’t know anything about the shooting until he heard the sirens and walked out of the fire station to see an EMT needing help with a wounded woman (Hammond). But Hammond couldn’t have been at the fire station until quite some time later, if at all. She was also shot in the hand and foot but the EMT had her in a car - who’s car, where’d they get the keys, why not a cop car, EMTs don’t usually have cars, and why wasn’t she already in an ambulance. How could the Emergency Management Director/Fire Chief not have known about the shooting long before that? He also says they treated another lady - this supposed mystery victim whom is never identified?

Read the screen shots. I’ve never seen anything as extensive in my local newspaper.

Here’s a SECOND COINCIDENCE - in the description box for “more”, it shows his son works at FEMA, DHS and Emergency Management. Do a search for him if you want chills down your spine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IuXSHtyOT8&list=PLELUekH3Z93BRa-uxrIYMfAIWpLrqGUzY


66 posted on 12/07/2013 4:02:56 PM PST by bgill
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To: bgill
I watched the Challenger blow up in Florida back in 86. Less than 2 weeks later, books were already available with mini-bios on all 7 crew members. Books are written about the Columbine children and also first hand witnesses from the Aurora Co. theater.

As far as I know, the books about Sandy Hook are about gun control and how screwed up Lanza was. Nothing about the children or some of the adults.

67 posted on 12/07/2013 6:55:30 PM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: bgill

I hope all of these actors and liars got paid well for this.

But I guess spending some tax dollars on orchestrating a false flag event is worth it so big bad guns can be banned.

For everyone on FR who says we are crazy for disbelieving this farce, I ask you to spend a little time investigating instead of taking the guided tour.

We are being lied to.


68 posted on 12/07/2013 7:11:34 PM PST by Aurorales (I will not be ridiculed into silence!)
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To: bgill

The Courant has identified that first caller on the 911 calls as Barbara Halstead, a secretary in the school’s office.

http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/newtown-sandy-hook-school-shooting/hc-sandyhook-911-calls-released-20131204%2C0%2C5534360.story


69 posted on 12/08/2013 10:17:24 AM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip
Of all the adults there, it just so happens that the fire chief's ex is the first to call.

Newtown officers who entered the building nearly six minutes after they had arrived.

Used those six minutes to finish their donuts. According to Thorne, Lanza shot through the front to gain access. Officer Seabrook, from an interview with him, says he/the cops with him knocked down the front to get in. Why would the first cops going in waste time knocking it down when Lanza got through? I can see the second group taking the time to clear more room for those following but not the first group. It is an indication of more donuts. However, the pictures of the front do not show the glass was cleared out to offer more access. The pictures show a large hole with lots of still intact glass around the bottom and sides. IOW, either Lanza didn't shoot through the window or the cops lied about them knocking it out. Either way, there's a lie.

an unidentified teacher who was shot in the foot tells the dispatcher that she is bleeding

Either this is Hammond or it's the mystery teacher who hasn't been identified for a year. As if the other teachers and students wouldn't know who she is.

Sedensky concluded that Lanza acted alone in planning and carrying out the massacre

In Feb, he wouldn't unseal the warrants because it would "seriously jeopardize" the investigation by disclosing information known only to other "potential suspects" and that he may not have acted alone. We still don't know who the two people who went by the gym windows were other than one was a SWAT officer from a nearby town who is known only as cammo pants man who told the parents he didn't do it and was placed in the front of a cop car. So many questions with that but the first being what was he doing at the school and then why did he run from the cops? Where did his buddy get off to? Was he the guy that was handcuffed at the fire station or was that a second person?

An aside, good ol' Gene has several problems with what he was doing when the kids appeared on his lawn - he was going on a walk, he was returning from a walk, he was feeding cats in the loft, he was getting into his car to go to breakfast at a country cafe and he had heard what he thought was deer hunters shooting and walked outside. He also can't decide through his countless overly dramatic interviews if the bus driver was a male or female. Flippity floppity.

Nor can anyone explain why the driver put the kids on his lawn instead of at the fire station which they'd passed next door. Weird.

70 posted on 12/08/2013 9:21:00 PM PST by bgill
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To: bgill
The only lie of significance being perpetrated contrary to all the evidence is this one:

The police heard the final shot at 9:40:03 a.m

What the police heard @ 9:40, as recorded on Call #3, were shots coming in succession from an automatic, aka the Bushmaster, not the pistol that fired its only shot -- the final one.

These shots @ 9:40 were the shots all in a succession and had to have been the ones after which the 10 kids in classroom 10 made a break for it.

They were then seen about 2-4 minutes later heading for the firehouse by several people after which more gunshots [plural] are heard by a homeowner, by parents at the door, and reported by police dispatch.

Surely those writing these police reports know this as the police scanner/dispatch reports shots at 9:41, then again at 9:42, then again at 9:46 ...

and the final shot did not happen until 9:51.

Law enforcement are embarrassed by how long it took them to enter the building but by rewriting history and having him dead at 9:40 they can claim that it really didn't matter since he was dead already -- but the 911 calls, police dispatch/scanner, several firsthand witnesses, and the 10 kids from room 10 say otherwise.

71 posted on 12/09/2013 7:22:59 AM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: delchiante
call number 3. from 1:52 to 1:55 woman in the background said “There’s a rumor it’s fake” and the man says ‘Jenn, hang up, I need you to get off that phone! ‘ Interesting...

Very interesting indeed.

72 posted on 12/09/2013 7:32:31 AM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: bgill

<>Officer Seabrook, from an interview with him, says he/the cops with him knocked down the front to get in.<>

He must have been referring to the glass they broke in the back windows because none of the Newtown police entered through the front glass. The state police did when they arrived.

http://articles.courant.com/2013-11-30/news/hc-sandy-hook-police-response-text-box1201-2-20131130_1_adam-lanza-timeline-teacher-victoria-soto

9:44:47 — Newtown officers Leonard Penna, Lt. Christopher Vanghale and Sgt. Aaron Bahamonde enter the school through boiler room door.

9:44:50 — Three other Newtown officers, Kullgren, McGowan and Liam Seabrook, enter through the rear of the school.

9:46:23 — First state police officers arrive. Lt. Michael Hofbauer, Lt. Michael Davis and Sgt. William Cario run into the building through front glass window Lanza shot out.

9:51:31 — A four-man team consisting of Cario, Davis, Chapman and Smith enters teacher Victoria Soto’s classroom and find Lanza’s body.


73 posted on 12/09/2013 7:45:09 AM PST by Uncle Chip
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Pg 23 — map of classrooms

http://cbsnewyork.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/sandy_hook_final_report.pdf


74 posted on 12/09/2013 10:43:21 AM PST by Uncle Chip
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Photos from the Sandy Hook shooting report

http://www.ctpost.com/news/slideshow/Photos-from-the-Sandy-Hook-shooting-report-74821.php


75 posted on 12/09/2013 12:17:40 PM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: 3Fingas
The only problem with your incessant beliefs in the Sandy Hook LIE is this:

You have NO CREDIBLE WITNESSES or GRIEVING FAMILY MEMBERS.

NONE.

Robbie Parker, Sally Cox, Gene Rosen, Soto's brother, Posner's "mother," etc...

ALL LIARS AND FAKERS.

Not a single genuine emotional response from ANY of these idiots. Not a single tear. Not a single straight story. Lots of creepy Cheshire cat grins, though. Seen a TON of those "I know a secret" type of grins, but no tears or genuine sadness.

Don't tell me all these creeps went through the same type of violent attack that the people at Columbine went through. Don't kid yourself if you think Sandy Hook is as real as Columbine was. Not with all these liars and fakers running around. Not with this stupid crap about the Sandy Hook survivors singing Somewhere Over The Rainbow for the Super Bowl TV cameras, and singing "Call Me Maybe" with Carly Rae Jepsen at the Grammy's. No freaking way these people went through the horror and trauma of a 20+ kid killing spree.

76 posted on 12/10/2013 11:56:33 AM PST by Prole
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To: onedoug

Read this thread about why people think this was a hoax.


77 posted on 12/10/2013 1:18:59 PM PST by windcliff
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To: windcliff

So, those 26 fatalities are still around? I don’t get what’s going on here.


78 posted on 12/10/2013 2:32:48 PM PST by onedoug
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To: onedoug

You should read the Facebook page of The Sandy Hook Hoax and the various blogs. They are convinced that it never happened. There are freepers who don’t believe it ever happened. I was listening to the event live and there was a lot of media who just plain got it wrong.


79 posted on 12/10/2013 3:10:42 PM PST by windcliff
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To: windcliff

I can’t discern anything from that screwy Facebook. If this is a hoax I would have expected Breitbart to uncover it definitively. It should be quite simple for that outfit to substantiate or not. That they haven’t done so indicates to me that they are satisfied that the event did take place.


80 posted on 12/10/2013 3:55:52 PM PST by onedoug
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