There is outrage in Uvalde, Texas, after a months-long independent investigation found that police officers who responded to the 2022 school shooting, during which 19 children and two teachers were killed, acted in “good faith.” https://t.co/OY5N4ZEF7V pic.twitter.com/Q0r2ZcDsh0
— CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) March 8, 2024
I tried to ask investigator Jessie Prado how he came to his conclusion and whether he disagreed with all the other reports about the failures. No luck — but take a look. Thanks to @LeighWaldman for the video. pic.twitter.com/7JFA9NEMWQ
— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) March 8, 2024
Back the blue.
The might let the blacks rob you, they might shut down your business because of a virus hoax, they might take your kids away from you, but at least they protect us from the most important and prominent problem of all: school shooters.
An investigation Uvalde city leaders ordered into the Robb elementary school shooting put no blame on local police officers and defended their actions Thursday, despite acknowledging a series of rippling failures during the fumbled response to the 2022 classroom attack that left 19 children and two teachers dead.
Several family members of victims walked out in anger midway though a presentation that portrayed Uvalde police department officers of acting swiftly and appropriately, in contrast to scathing and sweeping state and federal past reports that faulted police at every level.
The investigator who presented the report blamed families who rushed to the school that day for compromising the police response, prompting an eruption of anger from several families and some stormed out. Law enforcement took more than an hour to get inside the classroom and kill the gunman, even as children inside the classrooms called 911, begging police to rescue them.
“You said they did it in good faith. You call that good faith? They stood there 77 minutes,” said Kimberly Mata-Rubio, whose daughter was among those killed in the attack, after the presentation ended.
77 minutes.
Standing around doing nothing.
Another person in the crowd screamed: “Cowards!”
The report for the Uvalde city council on Thursday comes from one of several inquests into the massacre and was conducted by Jesse Prado, an Austin-based investigator and former police detective.
“There were problems all day long with communication – and lack of it. The officers had no way of knowing what was being planned, what was being said,” Prado said. “If they would have had a ballistic shield, it would have been enough to get them to the door.”
Prado also said the families who rushed to the school hampered efforts to set up a chain of command as they had to conduct control with parents trying to get in the building or pleading with officers to go inside.
“At times they were difficult to control,” Prado said. “They were wanting to break through police barriers.”
Well, you should have just let them. If you weren’t going to stop the shooter, then let the parents do it.
They were preventing parents from entering while themselves standing around. Their main objective appeared to be to max out the death toll.
Family members erupted when Prado briefly left after his presentation.
“Bring him back!′ several of them shouted.
Prado returned and sat and listened when victims’ families cried and criticized the report, the council and the responding officers.
It’s a lot of dead kids.
The cops should all be in prison, frankly.
This is at best criminal negligence, and at worst, some kind of conspiracy.
The feds have been caught doing these shootings before (in my opinion). It’s possible they were ordered to stand down and let as many kids as possible die, so the Democrats would have more fodder for their gun control quest.