JUST IN: Exclusive body cam video from the law enforcement response to the Uvalde, TX school shooting. @ShimonPro obtained the video from the city's Mayor.
It shows just how chaotic the situation was: pic.twitter.com/VppNuJ1d7b— Ryan Nobles (@ryanobles) July 17, 2022
I’m having a hard time keeping track of the amount of new documentary evidence showing officers doing nothing.
Newly released footage from inside Robb Elementary School during the mass shooting shows more dysfunction and failure by first responders as cops stand around waiting for instructions and Police Chief Pete Arredondo pleads with the shooter to stop.
The newly released bodycam footage from May 24, first reported by CNN, shows a stunning lack of urgency among officers as an active shooter ultimately killed 19 children and two teachers.
Uvalde Schools Police Chief Pete Arredondo can be heard politely asking the gunman, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, to surrender minutes after the cops hear a burst of gunfire from inside classrooms 111 and 1112.
“Sir, if you can hear me, please put your firearm down, sir. We don’t want anybody else hurt,” he said in the footage.
Arredondo’s pleas came after another officer received intel from dispatch that a boy called 911 from inside the classroom “full with victims” — confirming reports that some officers knew there were survivors inside, but still wasted precious time to confront the armed killer.
“We do have a child on the line,” a dispatcher tells UVD Officer Justin Mendoza, according to his bodycam footage. “He is in the room full of victims at this moment.”
It’s unclear if that information was relayed to other officers like Arredondo.
Okay, so – this whole media narrative is pointing towards the cops just being like, the most cowardly and useless people on earth. This creates problems for the gun control narrative, which says that only cops should be legally allowed to have guns.
(Also, the media narrative is that cops are evil racists who want to kill blacks because they hate dark colors clashes with the gun control narrative.)
Frankly, I’m not really buying that all these cops were really this cowardly. I think it’s statistically impossible. Obviously, people who become cops have low moral character, as a rule. But even really scummy people are not going to stand around while kids are getting murdered, especially when you’ve already determined that there is only one gunman, and I assume we’ve all played Call of Duty and understand how to enter a room and kill someone.
I think there was a stand down order.
Six minutes go by before Arredondo is shown fiddling with keys — attempting to gain access to the adjoining classrooms where Ramos and the victims are inside.
Minutes later, the sudden sound of gunfire shocks the officers and at that point, Arredondo attempts to speak with Ramos.
Another 30 minutes go with the officers standing around seemingly without urgency before a team takes out the shooter. The whole response — from initial officers arriving at the scene to the team killing the gunman — took well over an hour.
At one point in the clip, released by Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin, one officer expresses his confusion outside the school’s door.
“What are we doing here?” he questioned.
Every day, we do what we ask every day, and that question is the everyday question, which we must ask ourselves: what are we doing here?
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How much fucking back up do they need? This was ridiculous.
— Troy Daniel (@troyboy92165) July 17, 2022
Honestly wtf . We understand the job is scary but to stand there while kids are being killed is insane to me
— RickyTikkitavii (@tikiitavvii) July 17, 2022
dude lost his breath after a 30 second jog
— StockboyFreedom (@stockwatchboy) July 17, 2022
Kyle Ritterhouse would have done better than the cops
— Denver (@scottthegreat76) July 17, 2022
My absolute worst nightmare, *which I didn’t even know was possible*, is that NO ONE IS COMING as I sit in a dark, silent classroom w my petrified students, or alone, listening to my coworkers & other students die-IF I’m lucky enough not to be in the room the shooter chooses 1st!
— Kai (@AndersFinn) July 17, 2022
So how many more body cam videos are there I wonder?? They ALL need to be released. It looks like they’re not even directing each other or requesting info??
FFS I can’t believe the ZERO sense of urgency while gunshots are heard!— Phoenix🆘 (@listen2644) July 18, 2022