Posted on 06/03/2022 1:23:09 AM PDT by conservative98
Nicole Ogburn, a fourth-grade teacher at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, described in detail the tragic school shooting that left 19 students and 2 teachers dead. Ogburn spotted the gunman outside the school seconds before he began firing his weapon into her classroom.
The video interview featured in a report by the Daily Mail offers an inside account of the shooting that ended after a hastily formed group of law enforcement officers gained access to the gunman barricaded behind a locked steel door.
Ogburn told the Daily Mail about how the locking mechanism works on the exterior door to the school that the shooter used to enter the building. She says the door has a push-style lock. She describes the outside of the door as having a door handle that requires a key.
The issue surrounding whether the door was left open has received significant attention after a teacher was initially accused by the Texas Department of Public Safety of having left the door propped open. As reported by Breitbart Texas, authorities later acknowledged that information was not true.
Ogburn said a rock was usually nearby to prop the door if needed to go outside for a quick trip to a vehicle. She also stated the push bar on the inside of the door sometimes would not return to fully lock.
Ogburn then described how the incident unfolded from her vantage point in a corner classroom close to where the shooter approached the building.
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*She also stated the push bar on the inside of the door sometimes would not return to fully lock.*
Not only do they have a incompetent police dept, they cant even maintain basic door hardware. This district really, really, needs a FBI raid of the school PD and administration offices to figure out how incompetent and/or corrupt they are.
Yeah. The FBI. They’ll raid it to see if there is any evidence this psycho was on their payroll, so they can bury it.
I think this answers the question of whether or not the grandmother, a teacher’s aide, would have a key. Even this teacher didn’t have a key, or she wouldn’t have to prop the door open just to get something from her vehicle.
Well, I can imagine a world with a competent non-corrupt FBI, right?
Wouldn’t it be nice?
-Brian Wilson
This teacher also says she heard gunfire from within the school, presumably in the other two classrooms for over 30 minutes. According to the idiots in the local police department, that’s not possible as it was a hostage situation. I don’t know how the chief of police for the school district can sleep at night. Literally did everything wrong you possibly can and still has a job. There’s got to be some serious corruption in this town/County.
Or it was intended for a greater agenda? Hate to think that way but given the past 2+ years, I don’t put ANYTHING past the-ends-justify-the-means Leftists or globalists....
It gets worse. The classroom doors only locked by key from the outside... which is what the teacher and kids killed. She had to step into the hall to lock the door and get back inside and didn’t in time and he forced his way inside.
That is the crucial point right there
“Look!!!!! A rope on a garage door!!!!!! It was racism all along!!!!!”
The question will be was the door locked before it was propped open with a rock?
The staff KNEW they were not supposed to go out that door except for emergencies. That’s why the rock was used and there was not a legit doorstop available.
Oh yeah have the crooks at the FBI raid the school. How about the FBI raid at Solendra? Where is all the indictments, $900 million stolen.
I don’t think most of you are understanding how these standard push-bar doors work. And you are making up scenarios WITHOUT understanding.
We have these doors at our church and because I teach a music class on a weekday morning, I know how they work and have a key to get in.
The key is needed to open the door from the outside. And the only way to get my key back out of the door is to turn it back to lock position to pull it out. So when my key is removed and the door closes, it auto locks. From the inside, we can always push the bar to open the door.
There is, however a way to disable the auto-lock mechanism and most people do not know about it. There is a little device that looks sort of like an Allen-wrench. It is kept way up high by the top of the door. Only very tall people can reach it. It can be used to insert into a hole in the bar and will disable the auto lock mechanism. Someone who doesn’t know about this device, could possibly think that the bar doesn’t fully engage to lock sometimes, like the teacher in this interview thought, if for instance it is used occasionally by someone authorized to use it for a special occasion. Personally, I NEVER use it (even if I could reach it) because I’m afraid I would forget to undo it when we leave. Using something to temporarily prop the door open is better since the door will always lock back when closed.
“...the push bar on the inside of the door sometimes would not return to fully lock”
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Everyone is familiar with this.
A door that would lock behind you, if gravity were allowed to run its course by slamming the door shut against the doorstop, doesn’t lock behind you if you defeat the normal course of the force of gravity by gently returning the door to an “almost closed” position without having first gained any rotational momentum around its hinge. As long as nobody uses the door while you are darting out to your car in the parking lot, you are “golden”.
You can re-enter the building, having defeated the intended function of the heavy door and its gravity-assisted locking mechanism.
Of course, the least maintenance, regularly performed on the door, such as keeping both the locking mechanism and the hinge clean and well-lubricated, and makes this maneuver impossible (hence the nearby rock).
But it is that amount of maintenance that nobody who parks a car in that lot wants done, so it doesn’t get done.
The rock is only used as a “backup” (i.e., when the door’s automatic locking mechanism is (annoyingly) functioning as designed).
That’s OGINJ’s theory, and OGINJ is sticking to it.
“What difference, at this point, does that make?!” - media
*She also stated the push bar on the inside of the door sometimes would not return to fully lock.*
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A common occurrence. We’ve all seen many doors of this type where it takes a second effort to make sure it’s completely latched.
Re: 15 - great post.
The sequence of events with the door started with that door being opened for non-emergency purposes; using a rock to prop open the door; and not ensuring the door was secure when closing.
As noted, it’s pretty reasonable to assume that the door lock was working, as the rock was there.
At the end of the day, that teacher by her actions defeated exterior security, and allowed the shooter to gain access to the building. She’s now trying to deflect blame and my guess is that’s in part because of the guilt she’s feeling. That guilt is well placed.
Around the 18 minute mark she mentions they’ve had multiple lock downs in that school this year due to “what’s happening at the border.” Yet zhao biden only wants to restrict guns, not close the border.
You’re confusing classroom door with building exit door.
There are 2 different stories here.
One about the door propping (exit door)
One about the classroom door. (Where the teacher that was killed was forced to go to hallway to lock door on outside.
Scarily, these are pretty Common classroom doors
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