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Newly launched surveillance video from the Might 2022 mass taking pictures at Robb Elementary College seems to indicate cops working by way of the halls of the varsity — away from the gunshots.
The Uvalde, Texas tragedy claimed the lives of 19 youngsters and two lecturers contained in the elementary faculty’s lecture rooms. Nevertheless, cops on scene moved again and away from the photographs slightly than charging in to neutralize the shooter. And their lack of motion lasted for greater than an hour because the shooter killed at will.
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The damning new video was printed by the Austin American-Statesman newspaper on Tuesday. Within the clip, which is 82 minutes lengthy, officers may be seen working into the varsity not lengthy after the shooter begins his terrible rampage. Nevertheless, slightly than selecting to confront him, cops step again and regroup within the hallway.
Throughout the lengthy surveillance video, per the New York Submit, one cop may be seen utilizing hand sanitizer that was affixed to one of many faculty’s hallway partitions. One other cop is seen checking his telephone whereas officers line up and wait to do, effectively, nothing. At one level, cops may be seen fleeing from a hail of bullets. The varsity shooter apparently fired a volley of photographs at police, sending them fleeing from their defensive positions. The shooter then continued his terror as police did not reply again.
Via the second half of the video, reinforcements arrive with tactical gear and much more weapons. And but nonetheless the police refuse to breach the classroom. The Submit even notes that cops may be seen “strolling round within the hallway, leaving, coming again, speaking to one another, and making calls” as an alternative of transferring in to cease the shooter. They arrange exterior the classroom, however in accordance with TMZ, cops “don’t try and enter for one more half-hour.” Per that outlet, footage even reveals cops looking for keys to the classroom door, which investigators decided later WASN’T EVEN LOCKED.
When officers lastly did go in, the shooter reportedly emerged from a closet, and that’s when a Border Patrol agent who wasn’t even imagined to be on the scene shot and killed him. So the cops did completely nothing, then extra nothing, and even MORE nothing, after which lastly a Border Patrol agent who wasn’t a part of their element and wasn’t even imagined to be on responsibility that day took it upon himself to finish issues. Did we get that proper?
At the least a type of cops used the hand sanitizer within the hallway, although… Utterly BEYOND f**king infuriating! Youngsters have been being killed whereas they took their valuable time.
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Vincent Salazar, whose 11-year-old daughter Layla was killed within the taking pictures, informed the Submit that households of the victims felt “blindsided” by the discharge of the video. State lawmakers had claimed they have been going to launch it over the subsequent few days — after first giving victims’ households time to view it and communicate privately with officers from the Texas Division of Public Security. Nevertheless, the newspaper jumped the gun, acquiring and releasing the video on Tuesday.
As surprising as that will have been, Salazar is appropriately incensed on the officers who did not act:
“Everyone knows that the [police] didn’t do their jobs, however seeing it can reaffirm that. There must be accountability. Lots of these individuals who didn’t act shouldn’t have their jobs.”
That’s 1,000% appropriate.
It’s time for these officers to face very, very critical skilled penalties. On the very VERY least, it ought to go unsaid that their careers in regulation enforcement should be fully completed. All of them. PERIOD!
If you would like, you may watch the Austin American-Statesman‘s new surveillance video of the varsity taking pictures (under). It’s not bodily graphic, but it surely’s clearly extremely disturbing, so please use good judgement in case you want to view:
Such an terrible, terrible scenario.
There are so many cops on this nation who’re first rate, and who wish to do the fitting factor, and who’ve it in themselves to place their lives on the road when horrible issues occur. After which there are these guys.
What the f**okay have been these Uvalde cops pondering?!?!
[Image via Austin American-Statesman/YouTube]
