[MeganC]

I don’t believe they were simultaneously caught flat footed sitting in their vehicles AND in position and ready to go with high-powered rifles when the shooting started.

It’s one or the other and given the high-powered rifle thing actually took place I have a hard time even entertaining the ‘sitting in their vehicles’ proposition. It’s just not possible.

[don-o]

Then you need to take it up with the Chief of Police. I tend to accept his word, and wonder why it got scrubbed. My guess is because it makes his department look quite incompetent.

Stroman statement that has been scrubbed from Waco PD facebook

[Finny]

Don-o I think wisely and rightly FREQUENTLY POINTS OUT Waco PD's official (and as you, Megan, point out, patently ludicrous) claim that "police officers" were sitting in their vehicles at the time that violence broke out.

Whether they really were or weren't sitting in their vehicles, the clear truth is that they were AMAZINGLY STUPID AND OBTUSE if out of 177 "criminals" they arrested and HARSHLY PUNISHED without due process, fewer than a third had ever before been accused, let alone convicted, of a crime.

On one point I disagree with don-o: I don't think they were "flat-footed" at all. I think they accomplished the mission they were there to perform with calculated deliberation.

[xone]

ready to go with high-powered rifles

Are there any other kind?