Posted on 05/27/2022 12:05:38 PM PDT by conservative98
Cops responding to the Uvalde, Texas, school massacre “made the wrong decision” when they waited to breach the classroom door where a gunman had barricaded himself inside with children, a top law enforcement official said Friday.
The on-scene commander made the call that the carnage at Robb Elementary School on Tuesday had gone from an active shooter situation to a “barricaded suspect” situation, Col. Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said in a briefing Friday.
“With the benefit of hindsight, where I’m sitting now, of course it was not the right decision, it was the wrong decision, period,” McCraw said.
“There was no excuse for that.”
The admission came as police revealed the first time that 18-year-old shooter Salvador Ramos fired off at least 100 rounds and marched in through an unlocked door that had been propped open by a teacher before he killed 19 students and two teachers.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
when seconds count, the cops are only an hour away ....
One might rightly ask: How can they choose to stand around while shooting is going on? Especially since such a “wrong decision” has been made in the past - and also resulted in a higher death toll... Seems this is much worse than just a “wrong decision”. I’m not about second guessing the “professionals”... but how can anyone who is a cop for the right reasons, KNOW what is going on, know that children (and adults) are being killed - and simply stand around? No way.
then fall on your sword...
(With the benefit of hindsight)
You don’t need hindsight to know what every other normal person knows should have been done in the first place.
Contender for the understatement of the year award
Is it really a “decision?” Doesn’t law enforcement have a protocol to deal with these situations? What was the protocol they are trained to follow?
Wow.
I feel much better now that McCraw has copsplained things to me.
Protect the donuts, and serve more coffee.
What was the protocol they are trained to follow?
They didn’t have to admit this was a colossal eff up. Most everyone already knew it.
The news conference guy with the twitching face said, “they assumed all the kids were dead”
??
Why in hell would they assume that? There had to be survivors, there had to be some bleeding out, some needing immediate life save medical attention. Assumed they were all dead? I can’t believe he said that.
Cops are apparently guilty of breaking the “Duty to Rescue Law” c.f. Seinfeld Good Samaritan Latham MA
Wrong decision or just following orders?
(Yes. I know. But the timing is just too convenient.)
Perhaps a redo is in order? Of course no one comes back to life. A friend mentioned that next time a parent gets a call about an active shooter at their kid’s school perhaps don’t call the blue but grab your own weapons and take care of business yourself. After all....how much worse could the parents do compared to the blue?
Law enforcement has routinely “stood down” and watched as Antifa and BLM riots destroyed neighborhoods and murdered innocent civilians. It’s been going on for decades. Parkland and Uvalde are just extensions of a failed protocol.
Yesterday Chucky Cheese Schumer blocked a GOP Senate sponsored bill, with a sensible approach to addressing the tragedy at the primary school in Texas.
The bill was not about printing new regulations.
It offered the establishment of a database in the DOJ of “best practices” of school security and response of breach of school security by a shooter.
The DOJ would (a) collect data for the database, identifying both what has worked and methods and operations that failed, (b) analyze the data, (c) determine priorities as far as good and bad practices and (d) offer the results of the analysis, and ranking of operations and practices into (e) proposals for states to examine in their own state’s environment.
Its’ not a utopian panacea but it is sensible.
Likely that is why Schumer wouldn’t let it get considered - how dare a semsible bill try to compete the Dims insistance that ONLY “more gun control” will solve “mass shootings”.
On the current case from Texas, my thoughts this morning went to the idea that sometimes, maybe, these shooters are intentionally trying to commit “suicide by police action”; and that that “suicide” is more thier own motivator than “being famous” - sometimes.
Assume everyone’s dead? Is that how it’s supposed to work now? What’s the point of having first responders then? Just call the Coroner.
This brought back vivid memories of Columbine.
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