DPS offers timeline, admits on-scene commander
got it wrong: 'It was the wrong decision.
Period.' (Update)
Hot Air,
by
John Sexton
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
5/28/2022 12:36:52 AM
One of the questions being mulled over yesterday was how the shooter so easily gained access to the school. Robb Elementary didn’t have the same “hardening” efforts, including a buzz-in security vestibule, that the Uvalde high school had. But there was supposedly a security plan that included keeping doors to the school locked from the outside. A short time ago Texas DPS director Steven McGraw gave a timeline of the incident which revealed a teacher had propped open that door moments before the shooter arrived. “We know from video evidence at 11:27 the exterior door…where we knew the shooter entered, was propped open by
Reply 1 - Posted by:
bighambone 5/28/2022 1:19:49 AM (No. 1168248)
Well why wasn’t the law enforcement incident commander who has being identified as being Chief Pete Arredondo at the law enforcement briefing today to defend his critical decisions to delay forcing entry to the particular classroom where the perpetrator was hold up after he shot all those children?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 5/28/2022 2:01:01 AM (No. 1168266)
It now appears that the shooter was able to move to at least two classrooms, but with the way "the story" seems to shift and change hourly, we'll see what the final "story" is.
And we'll always wonder how much relationship the "final story" as with the TRUTH.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
2assume 5/28/2022 2:42:17 AM (No. 1168276)
Do not let them take our guns away. Once we give up our guns we are sitting ducks. The democratic mayors and governors have made it so impossible for a cop to do their job, the cops are afraid of lawsuits or getting fired. Anyone who is so hard up to be a cop 👮♀️ Will not be there when you need a cop. Get rid of crooked D.A.s who refuse to prosecute the law breakers and the judges who immediately let them right back on streets. Stop this no bail crap. The same people do the same crime over and over.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 5/28/2022 5:59:24 AM (No. 1168322)
A teacher propped open a door that should have been locked. What in the hell was this about?! The shooter got in through this door. One needs to ask if the teacher was working with the shooter?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jj1319 5/28/2022 7:39:24 AM (No. 1168382)
If a teacher can override mandated security measures (propped open door) on a whim, imagine what other measures are being overridden, for whatever reason. What is the LGBTQ breakdown for this school or class? Teachers seem to have an awful lot of power. The unintended consequences of this power are tremendous. Is there an after school Satan club at Robb Elementary?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
BarryNo 5/28/2022 9:30:26 AM (No. 1168496)
They took 3 days to admit the "barricade" decision was wrong because the on site commander didn't know about the 911 calls that kids (and a teacher) were still alive, or if he did, he thought it could be covered up.
The propped open door was probably so someone could take a smoke.
When people are trained to discipline (military or police) you enter a particular mindset when action is happening. You set yourself to react, not strategize, or question. The first commander on the scene has authority from his supposedly greater familiarity of the situation. You enter survival mode and wait to react.
The BORTAC team that came in was independent of the other on scene police and made their own plans once they had the scenario.
Then, the shooter was brought down.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Cat Ballou 5/28/2022 10:02:08 AM (No. 1168518)
Obviously not commander material, when will society learn that people need to be good at their jobs, doesn't matter if they are black, white or purple. Our nation is a nation of complacent people doing their own thing, and led by power hungry politicians that will do or say anything to stay in power. It's past time to expect our governmental representatives to do a good job. Unfortunately that will never happen as long as political correctness or woke is the order of the day.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 5/28/2022 11:21:34 AM (No. 1168590)
And when will that "on scene commander" be fired? Years of being paid for doing minor stuff, with the understanding that "when the big one happens" he'd be stepping up to save people.
And he DIDN'T step up, he proved to be incompetent, he made the obviously wrong choice, the coward's choice, the uninformed, fool's choice. He needs to be gone.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
TXknitter 5/28/2022 12:55:17 PM (No. 1168683)
We are seeing another kind of incompetence.
Governor Abbott ? Yoo hoo. This “Police Chief” needed to be FIRED three days ago. The man doesn’t have enough honor to face his community and publicly apologize and resign.
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