Texas Official Admits Officers Waited
Too Long to Storm Classroom: ‘It Was
the Wrong Decision’
National Review,
by
Arjun Singh
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
5/27/2022 3:07:48 PM
Addressing the mass-shooting that claimed 21 lives in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, Department of Public Safety Director Steven McGraw acknowledged Friday that responding officers waited too long to breach the classroom where the killing took place.
Speaking to reporters at a press conference held at the scene of the shooting, McGraw said that the on-scene incident commander, Chief of Police Daniel Rodriguez, made the decision to fall back and wait for U.S. Border Patrol Tactical Teams to breach the classroom.
McGraw said the decision to delay entering the classroom was mistaken. According to Texas active shooter doctrine, officers are required to make an immediate breach
Reply 1 - Posted by:
justavoter 5/27/2022 3:17:38 PM (No. 1167866)
The dude that made that decision needs to turn in his badge. Find another line of work.
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I don't understand why they didn't shoot out the windows and quickly kill the evil POS!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Namma 5/27/2022 3:37:07 PM (No. 1167882)
I also ask why no one went to the window of the classroom. Just doesn’t make sense not too. Or, with all the police there at the time, all run into the building. At the same time! So many questions need to be answered
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
ncva 5/27/2022 3:45:56 PM (No. 1167888)
Horrifying to imagine what those children and teachers went through as they made 911 call after 911 call begging for the police to come quickly.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Rich323 5/27/2022 3:55:18 PM (No. 1167894)
Coordinated flash bangs thru window and Storm the door perp dead 20 seconds max.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Chiritwo 5/27/2022 4:06:34 PM (No. 1167898)
I just don't understand how they could stand outside while children were being murdered. I would love to hear the explanation.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Quigley 5/27/2022 4:15:06 PM (No. 1167906)
I don’t like to criticize people who are in a really tough position for what they did or didn’t do. I’m sure that every course of action was fraught with danger for the children and others.
But to wait and see ……
I wonder if TV cameras in the classrooms and hallways would have enabled a quicker assessment? Software to quickly locate the perp in the school and to see what his situation was.
The money bidet has sent to Ukraine for the war he started there- and money that would have been generated from federal leases instead of being paid to Russia and saudi and iran- could have easily paid for such a system for all US schools.
And huncher could set up the company to do it so schmoe would still get rich even without looting Ukraine.
We could learn from the Israelis, too. But schmoe doesn’t want to learn- he wants to attack his enemies.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Geoman 5/27/2022 4:21:26 PM (No. 1167913)
I believe that the incident commander who made the call to transition from active shooter to barricaded suspect, the Uvalde I.S.D. police chief, was not the appropriate person to coordinate a multi-agency response to an active shooter in the first place. A DPS supervisor or the county's high sheriff, should have assumed incident command upon arrival. Since all police officers in Texas must be peace officers commissioned by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE), this incident, and its breakdowns, should be prominently included in all police training academies in the state, which TCOLE can require.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
UncleBuck 5/27/2022 4:25:25 PM (No. 1167914)
Root problem appears to be a command & control FUBAR. Incident Commander decision-making botched the response. Should have had some live shooter training scenarios, to include soft targets with high volume targets in confined areas. No excuse to wait in this particular situation, from what is known so far.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 5/27/2022 4:27:36 PM (No. 1167921)
It's always easier to be a journalist than a cop.
Notice that journalists rarely, if ever, show the kind of bad judgement and causes people to get hurt.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Luandir 5/27/2022 4:30:16 PM (No. 1167925)
"Mistakes were made." The CYA begins.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
redriverranger 5/27/2022 4:36:07 PM (No. 1167933)
Don't rush to judgement. I suspect ( but have no direct knowledge) that most if not all the murders happened before there was a law enforcement presence at the scene. The shooter was barricaded in a single room, it makes sense to evacuate the rest of the school and gather your force before assaulting the shooter.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
smokincol 5/27/2022 4:36:44 PM (No. 1167935)
not when you have the chance of meeting a barrage of .223 rounds coming at you.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 5/27/2022 4:44:55 PM (No. 1167941)
It is evident that the Uvalde LEOs didn't run to the danger but ran from the danger. And they want to disarm us. Arm and train yourself. You are the first responder in a dangerous situation. Be prepared.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 5/27/2022 4:55:32 PM (No. 1167946)
Yes, a wrong decision. How many children's lives were lost because of it?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
bighambone 5/27/2022 6:00:07 PM (No. 1167992)
There were actually two Police Departments and two Chiefs of Police that were supposedly responded to the Uvalde school shooting. At the news conference today, the Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety said that it was the Chief of the Uvalde Independent School District Police Department, who would have been a man named Pete Arredondo, who was the incident commander at the school where the shootings took place. So it would have been Chief Arredondo who actually made all the critical law enforcement command tactical decisions at that scene. The other local Police Department there was the Uvalde Police Department and that Chief’s name was Daniel Rodriguez. The US Border Patrol tactical unit that responded in a mutual aid role, once on the scene, would have taken direction from the on the ground incident commander as they assisted.
It was really unfortunate that Chiefs Arredondo and Rodriguez were not at today’s news conference to explain their actions and decisions at the scene.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
bad-hair 5/27/2022 6:55:57 PM (No. 1168028)
Trying to hang on to the passive "Mistakes were made" ...
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
rochow 5/27/2022 7:01:42 PM (No. 1168040)
Wrong decision, wrong man. Out yesterday. Put a new man in. A few other heads need to roll as well!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
red1066 5/27/2022 7:23:33 PM (No. 1168066)
#2 and #3 are asking the same question I've been asking. If there were windows, tear gas would have been a good start to distract the perp and enter the classroom.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
3XALADY 5/27/2022 7:45:25 PM (No. 1168091)
Chief Arredondo was very, very new to the job.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
smcchk 5/27/2022 9:12:06 PM (No. 1168149)
How were the 911 calls not made known to the police chief? How could he so quickly determine that all were dead? How could they not do everything to reach children and their teachers? Not trying to be an armchair QB but if I were a parent, the police would have had to shoot me to keep me from running into that building. Since they were not.
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Public Safety Director, Steven MGraw, needs to apologize to those parents who were handcuffed or tazed while trying to get into the school. Unimaginable. There should have been a designated place for the parents. But better yet, the police should have made a decision to go into the school. McGraw, you better make amends for this. These parents needed proper attention and help. Instead, they were treated with contempt. So, whose the bad guy on this? The evil shooter. Parents were acting out of uncontrolled fear for their children. McGraw,fix this mess. Make sure it never ever happens again. Tell the truth, sir.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 5/28/2022 6:13:32 AM (No. 1168330)
The apparent mis-handled response by the Texas police reminds me of the Columbine High School massacre a little more than 22 years ago. In that case, the police too seemed befuddled as to how to neutralize the shooters. Fortunately, the two student shooters eventually killed themselves, but after taking the lives of their classmates. THEN the police felt comfortable in going in to take over.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 5/28/2022 8:01:41 AM (No. 1168398)
How about blame be placed in appropriate portions. Why was this individual allowed in the school. Door open? Blame the school. Most of all, I blame the 18-year old and his parents.
How many people have been saying "defund the police" but are now placing all of the blame on them?
You can put all of the laws in place but it will do nothing for evil hearts. Evil hearts are very much related to God taken out of society. . .
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
LLAMA 5/28/2022 8:03:35 AM (No. 1168401)
Don't forget the biggest problem of all: the media. Once again, they just couldn't wait to be 'first' with the 'breaking news'. That includes FNC, by the way. As a result, all kinds of misinformation was disseminated and analyzed just have something to air 24/7.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 5/28/2022 8:52:08 AM (No. 1168456)
The mass shooters, while crazy, are not stupid, and have always chosen unarmed, gun-free targets...not a single one has yet attacked a police station.
While schools are not police stations, we could do a lot with a little to 'harden' them. With 130,000 K-12 schools in America, the $44 billion we're sending to Ukraine could also pay for $338,000 of extra security per school....that's enough for 3 or 4 armed officers per school, some security cameras, metal detectors, and reinforced doors, and the overhead to manage them.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Trapper 5/28/2022 8:52:19 AM (No. 1168457)
The police were willing to continue following an order to stand down and do nothing for over an hour. How many wounded children, whose lives might have been saved by timely medical attention, bled out and died while the police did nothing to save them? And that raises another question: is there ANY order the police officers would NOT have followed?
Would the police officers have followed an order to shoot angry parents? Would they have followed an order to shoot escaping children? I am sorry, but the evidence suggests that the answer to both questions is “yes.” So, is there ANY order they would NOT have followed?
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 5/28/2022 9:38:13 AM (No. 1168500)
The fear of the bad press, MSM, defund the police, being called murderers, and THE FERGUSON EFFECT! all contribute to this waiting too long. Heather MacDonald has done research on this.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Zigrid 5/28/2022 9:55:57 AM (No. 1168513)
The dude in charge was trying to accommodate all the directives given him to not engage in case it was a black criminal and if the cops had shot him...the democrats would have another issue to feed off....thank you all the democrats that have played with the mind set of the police force...making them afraid to do their sworn duty...the stand down order came from the likes of aoc in DC to defund the police and hold them accountable for doing their duty...the fault is with democrats in DC...
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Speedypetey 5/28/2022 10:17:21 AM (No. 1168533)
43 minutes of gunfire and oh, the psycho was pinned down. BS! There were no men with guns. All the replies are correct! Crossing fire, two or more, flash bang or any diversion and a dispassionate hunter could send inexperienced evil to Satan.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
kewmac 5/28/2022 10:35:02 AM (No. 1168552)
When seconds count, the police are 43 minutes away!
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Jebediah 5/28/2022 1:26:59 PM (No. 1168721)
What I truly don't understand is that there were apparently kids with cell phones begging the police to come in through this whole "stand down".
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
TheTruthHurts 5/28/2022 1:44:57 PM (No. 1168736)
Law enforcement can not win. If the police had stormed the building and one child had been injured would you like to imagine the headlines? Think about it.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
danu 5/28/2022 3:16:11 PM (No. 1168793)
So many of these evil attacks of late have had so many similarities. Sadly, they're starting to look selected, staged, coached, and politically purposeful.
So many of these woeful young men can be manipulated-- and set off... like grenades , tossed from the hands of others.
One can recall the summer of 2020 ... but slow- rolled out for a different style of bespoke terror.
Back then, i watched endless hours of footage of the swarms of paid white-privilege mindless mini-fachas , as i have BTDT many times before.
it disgusts me to say that i had these noxious feelings:
1--pdt's promise of free enterprise zones for black neighbourhoods was a big selling point for my vote; it was thrilling to see all these homeowners and business owners create new prosperity;
2--imho, those citizens looked to be targeted in 2020 for satanic flames-- to destroy their valued creations -- at the pleasure of the usual pitchfork and brimstone entities demanding pain for those who stray from their hell [see washington dc for further info];
3--so ask yourself:
is summer 2022 the campaign of joeRICObanger against hispanic families --to whip them back in line--back to the slave galleys of the demonimarxistas --just for prizing education and self reliance for their precious children?
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