It Gets MUCH WORSE

[David Morris]

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/26/2100409/-Police-at-Uvalde-left-the-shooter-in-the-classroom-for-an-hour-while-they-refused-to-go-in

With every detail coming out of Uvalde, Texas, a new level of horror and
outrage seems to be revealed. That’s especially true when looking at the
police response to the event—a response best summed up as locking the
killer in with the kids and waiting until someone else came along to deal
with it.

As the Associated Press
<https://apnews.com/article/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-44a7cfb990feaa6ffe482483df6e4683>
reports,
response to the mass shooting was so slow that even though police had been
on the scene since the beginning of the incident, parents who heard about
the shooting arrived at the school to find that the killer was still in the
classroom. Shots were still being fired. Police were still waiting outside,
making no apparent effort to end the ongoing murders.

Parents looked on in frustration as police refused to go in to save the
children. That frustration reached the level where it seemed that parents
were attempting to rush the classroom themselves. At which point police did
respond—by confronting and tackling at least one of the parents.

Arriving parents could still clearly hear the sound of high speed gunfire
inside the classroom where their children were dying. Police seemed
perfectly capable of being aggressive … to the parents, not the shooter.

Police were there from the beginning, but they didn’t stop the shooter.
After that first exchange, they stopped attempting to stop him. They
“contained” him in the classroom. With the children. And the teacher.

About “40 minutes to an hour” later, a tactical team from the Border Patrol
arrived, found the door still locked, and took extraordinary action: They
asked another school staff member for a key. Then they unlocked the door
and went in.