Police have been additionally responsible for the huge delay in stopping the shooter who killed 21 individuals on Might 24, 2022.
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‘Children are getting murdered. Get within the room. Finish of story.’
This was one in every of a number of impassioned tweets posted within the final 24 hours by Rob O’Neill, the Navy SEAL Workforce Six hero who shot and killed Osama Bin Laden.
One other learn: ‘Hey cops, get within the room! The children are calling you. Get within the f*cking room!’
And a 3rd stated merely: ‘I'd by no means have left you alone, youngsters. I’m heartbroken.’
He wouldn’t.
And if somebody like O’Neill had been in Robb Elementary Faculty in Uvalde, Texas, final Tuesday, then I'd have given the sniveling little coward of a shooter two hopes of surviving longer than just a few seconds: no hope… and no hope.
But extremely, there have been as much as 19 armed cops inside the varsity for 70 minutes earlier than 18-year-old Salvador Ramos completed his hellish homicidal rampage.
That’s one for every of the 9 and 10-year-old youngsters who have been murdered.
These cops have been all educated to make use of weapons to guard the general public and have been all carrying weapons to guard the general public.
However when the second got here to guard the youngest, most weak and defenceless members of the general public, they went AWOL.
Or fairly, they stood there exterior the classroom the place the children have been trapped, doing completely nothing.
This was regardless of a number of of the determined youngsters frantically calling 911 on cell telephones pleading for assist.
Eight calls in whole have been produced from the classroom between 12.03pm and 12.50pm when the police lastly went in.
We’re advised they have been ready for keys to entry the classroom, tactical gear, and an order to go in.
But it surely sounds to me like what they have been actually ready for was a collective infusion of bravery and obligation like the type Rob O’Neill and his fellow SEALs displayed in Abbottobad, Pakistan, 11 years in the past.
And it by no means got here.
As an alternative, these shameful excuses for ‘regulation enforcement’ did nothing as 19 youngsters and two academics have been blown to items at shut vary by a maniac with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle.
Solely THEN, when it was all too horribly late, did they summon sufficient resolve to enter the classroom and shoot him.
What makes this much more pathetic and shameful is that initially, these similar Uvalde cops tried to inform the world what courageous heroes they’d been.
Their preliminary declare to the media was that they’d had a shoot-out with Ramos and brought him out, saving numerous lives.
However that was an obscene lie.
In actual fact, they froze in terror after the primary bullets started flying, and by doing so, they price numerous lives.
They even admit to their disgusting cowardice now, with no obvious shred of self-awareness at how terrible it sounds.
Texas Division of Public Security spokesman Chris Olivarez defended the officers by saying ‘they might have been shot, they might have been killed.’
Effectively, sure, they might.
However THAT’S THEIR BLOODY JOB!
They’re actually paid and educated with public cash to defend individuals and sort out criminals.
As Fox Information presenter Janice Dean tweeted: ‘It’s like a fireman not going right into a constructing as a result of they may get burned.’
And simply after I thought this diabolical story couldn’t presumably get any worse, cellular phone movies emerged on social media exhibiting hysterical dad and mom exterior the varsity making an attempt to run by the inactive closely armed police to get their youngsters out – and being bodily restrained from doing so.
‘You’re frightened of getting shot?’ one mom shouts in one of many movies. ‘I’ll go in with out a vest — I'll!’
One other girl claimed she was handcuffed within the melee.
‘The police have been doing nothing,’ Angeli Rose Gomez advised the Wall Avenue Journal. ‘They have been simply standing exterior the fence. They weren’t entering into there or operating wherever.’
Ms Gomez has two youngsters at Robb Elementary and drove 40 miles to the varsity after listening to of the assault.
However regardless of begging officers to be allowed to go and save her youngsters, she says she was arrested for ‘intervening in an energetic investigation.’
Ms Gomez ultimately jumped the varsity fence and rescued her youngsters herself.
Isn’t this probably the most damnable factor you’ve ever heard?
A bunch of pathetically gutless armed cops doing extra to cease a mom from saving her youngsters than they have been doing to cease a mass shooter murdering youngsters.
We noticed all this earlier than in 1999 at Columbine Excessive Faculty, the place Colorado police waited an hour after gunfire first erupted within the college for SWAT groups to reach, throughout which era 13 individuals have been shot lifeless by two younger males.
After that horrendous bloodbath, police have been instructed to prioritise the security of individuals beneath risk, not themselves.
They’re purported to now act as quick as doable to neutralize a shooter in these conditions, and shockingly, it’s transpired Uvalde cops got particular steerage about this solely two months in the past.
CNN reported that in March, the Uvalde Consolidated Unbiased Faculty District hosted energetic shooter coaching for Uvalde-area regulation enforcement officers, and gave them a handbook which acknowledged:
‘Officer’s first precedence is to maneuver in and confront the attacker. This will embrace bypassing the injured and never responding to cries for assist from youngsters.’
However these officers didn’t do this.
They let these youngsters die.
In an embarrassingly shambolic presser, tearful Texas Division of Public Security director, Col. Steven McCraw stated the police didn’t go in earlier as a result of they ‘believed that it had transitioned from an energetic shooter to a barricaded topic.’
He added: ‘It was the unsuitable determination. Interval. There’s no excuse for that.’
You suppose???
It was one of many worst selections within the historical past of regulation enforcement.
And the imbecile who made that call? Ulvade Faculty District Police Chief Pete Arredondo.
There’s even a suggestion, revealed by the Put up, that he didn’t have his police radio on him when he made the decision for his officers to not go in, so could not have recognized the essential indisputable fact that youngsters have been phoning 911 from the classroom.
If that’s true, it simply provides to the image of horrible incompetence that enveloped this police operation and Arredondo ought to resign.
If it’s not true, and he did know in regards to the classroom calls, then Arrendondo must be fired instantly for appalling negligence.
In fact, he may inform us himself, however like his officers, he’s nowhere to see seen because the flak flies, and gained’t reply questions.
Both method, Arredondo’s determination to not have interaction a lot earlier with this shooter price lots of these poor younger youngsters their lives, betrayed their dad and mom, and indelibly shamed Texas police.
As did the choice by all his officers to not have the braveness or sense of obligation to disregard it and cost in to attempt to save these youngsters.
Salvador Ramos wasn’t the one sniveling little coward on this atrocity.
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