Let's review the (reported) performance of the Uvalde Police and CBP response team on Tuesday:
- Waited 35-60 minutes before entering school while kids bled out, wasting golden hour
- Tazed / arrested parents begging them to go in, and attempting to rescue their kids themselves
- When they did enter the school, they went to rescue their own kids first rather than deal with the shooter
- Proved incapable of opening a locked door to the room where the shooter was, so they had a school employee do it for them with a key
- Armed school resource officer failed to prevent shooter from entering school
- Uvalde SWAT team had done a walkthrough of the school in Feb to prepare for just such a situation
- Outside observers saying Uvalde police ignored every lesson learned since Columbine
- When the police did enter the classroom, they failed to neutralize the shooter first, and as a result another child died due to their incompetence
- Initially lied about the timeline
- Police is 40% of Uvalde's budget
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And the best part, because of the Supreme Court decision in Castle Rock v. Gonzales (a 2005 decision delivered by Scalia), no matter how incompetent, cowardly, or negligent police are, they cannot be held accountable.
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Also: here's the receipts:
Shooter was in school for up to an hour:
cnn.com/2022/05/25/us/…
One more:
- Initial reports by police that they pursued and pinned down the shooter in a classroom were false. In reality, the shooter had plenty of time, and locked himself inside a classroom.
EDIT: The first tweet in the tweet should read
"Threatening to taze or arrest parents, while physically preventing them from trying to save their children, while doing nothing for 35 minutes"
I regret the inaccuracy
More from the WSJ: panicked parents who were begging police officers to save their children were put in handcuffs and informed they were being placed under arrest.
Follow on reporting suggests that the delay in police response may have cost the life of at least one child.
Additional information:
* Police reverse themselves and now say that there the school officer wasn't there to try to stop the shooter.
* Bluechecks claiming that there's 18 minutes of police radio recording missing
WSJ: Shooter spent 12 minutes outside the school before entering.
Police just keep looking worse and worse.
wsj.com/articles/uvald…
A fourth grader who survived the shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde described how it ended.
"The cop said: 'Yell if you need help!' And one of the persons in my class said 'help.' The guy overheard and he came and shot her. Then the cops barged in."
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Per the NYT and other sources: CBP Tactical teams arrived much earlier than was known. The Uvalde PD prevented them from entering, though it was ultimately that same CBP team that (reportedly) botched the entry into the classroom.
nytimes.com/live/2022/05/2…
Students were apparently alive, but playing dead through the ordeal.
cnn.com/2022/05/27/us/…
Apparently, Uvalde police stood around in the hallway for at least 20-40 minutes doing nothing, waiting for approval to employ the CBP tactical team.
Police acknowledge they did nothing, while increasingly frantic calls from inside the classroom rolled in, reporting that some students were dead, while others remained alive.
nytimes.com/2022/05/27/us/…
Also: receipts on the reports that police rushed in to save their own kids rather than deal with the shooter.
Admission of guilt begins at the 1:35 mark.
A timeline of the events have emerged. It's worse than we thought initially.
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