Dramatic picture shows hero border agent
storming Uvalde elementary school with
borrowed shotgun to save his wife, daughter
and 20 other kids while local police failed
to act despite 911 calls from kids INSIDE classroom
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Ronny Reyes
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
6/1/2022 1:05:28 PM
The heroic Border Patrol agent who stormed the Uvalde elementary school armed with a borrowed shotgun to save his wife, daughter and 20 other kids from the active shooter said he was just trying to help as many people as he could while local police are slammed for failing to act more quickly. U.S Custom and Border Patrol agent Jacob Albarado was off-duty and getting a haircut when he got a text from his wife, Trisha, a teacher at the Robb Elementary School, that a shooting was taking place.(Snip)Albarado told Fox News' Laura Ingraham that he quickly borrowed his barber's shotgun and raced to the school,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 6/1/2022 1:35:30 PM (No. 1172573)
The shooter was holed up in one or perhaps two interconnected rooms, and never came out. While he probably didn't know that, and it was good to get anyone away, why didn't he engage the shooter?
Too interested in HIS OWN FAMILY members, and not interested in the community children. Sorry, I find this narrow, familial "heroism" very tribal, and not a good thing for society from a police officer.
If he was a private citizen - this should be applauded. But a police officer saving his own family? I don't see that as doing his duty.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
sjredwood 6/1/2022 2:02:59 PM (No. 1172604)
re: Reply #1... an off duty police officer (in this case Border Patrol Agent) IS acting as a private citizen. The facts are unclear to me how much time had passed when he arrived. However, he was trained. He acted. And without regard for his own safety. The article states he DID help others evacuate. This man acted because there was a vacuum and the first officers on the scene did not act in a timely manner. Better for society to just sit around outside and wait for what? The entire school to be taken out? Without Border Patrol and back up law enforcement, it seems that was the course of action. Also there is no such thing as "community children." Those children were the children of his neighbors, of likely other teachers, and maybe other police officers. It is not the abstract situation of "the good of society" that you posit -- what removed planet of reality do you live on? I pray that you and Jake Tapper are never in the position of acting in a criminal tragedy like this one. I suspect you & he would retreat to a bathroom to empty your bowels. God bless this border patrol agent.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Birddog 6/1/2022 3:08:47 PM (No. 1172671)
There are 5-7 separate buildings on the campus, in the building where it happened there is a central hallway with half a dozen classrooms on each side, It would help to show a map of the campus layout and identify which building and which side of which buildings these photos occur at.
The graphic Daily Mail regularly uses doesn't even come close to matching the layout and floor plans.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/1/2022 4:02:56 PM (No. 1172722)
Some days these threads remind of vultures picking things over. Blaming a father for resvuing his kids and many others? Have we no shame?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/1/2022 4:05:20 PM (No. 1172728)
Correction:
,,,for rescuing his children…
(when I’m mad my fingers can’t catch up with my brain)
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
TXknitter 6/1/2022 4:20:32 PM (No. 1172738)
Thank you #4. I believe the off duty Border Patrol agent did rescue 20 other children and not just his own but even if he hadn’t what is wrong with a father doing so? I feel such sympathy for some of those fathers being held back in the parking lot - just doing what police told them. They probably wish they had snuck away like Mrs. Gomez did and gone in anyway.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 6/1/2022 4:25:09 PM (No. 1172741)
It's all too easy to arm-chair quarterback Albarado's actions while we sit here typing away on our laptops. In the heat of a very fluid crisis like this one, a parent will instinctively move to save his own family members first. What else is a guy holding a borrowed shot gun with two loads in going to do? Tell Ramos that he'll be back with two more loads?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/1/2022 4:40:22 PM (No. 1172751)
My favorite quotation - so apt right now:
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt He also said, on the same occasion:
“The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer,” he said. “A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticize work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life's realities—all these are marks, not ... of superiority but of weakness.”
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/63389/roosevelts-man-arena
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
CactusStar 6/1/2022 5:11:29 PM (No. 1172795)
Seems like a hero to me.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 6/1/2022 5:22:08 PM (No. 1172805)
Excellent quotes, #8.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/1/2022 5:27:15 PM (No. 1172812)
Re #3, although this layout in the article is an artist’s rendering, it appears to tell us that the photos (other than the people evacuating and in front of the school) were taken on the parking lot side. Most of those photos showed s tree, the back of a police vehicle.
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/06/01/18/58386259-10875161-image-a-3_1654104123349.jpg
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
lakerman1 6/1/2022 5:27:53 PM (No. 1172813)
In any jurisdiction I am aware of, an off duty law enforcement officer is required to carry a firearm, 24/7. Is that not the case with the border patrol agent?
The barber's shot gun will be kept for evi9dence for quite a long time. He should purchase an AR 15.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
PostAway 6/1/2022 5:33:55 PM (No. 1172823)
I have been in menacing but far less dangerous situations than this father was and just getting my legs to work to take the first step in doing the brave thing I knew I ought to do was a challenge. He was a Border Patrol officer, not a community police officer and was not there in any official capacity let alone to engage the gunman. That he saved his wife, children and 20 others is behavior to be modeled and respected.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/1/2022 6:20:35 PM (No. 1172864)
The ubiquitous use of “engage the shooter” is all over our threads. Sounds pretty rah-rah, but I haven’t seen any of those promoting engagement describe precisely what they mean by it in this case. What they would have done. In detail. No generalities, now. Details.
I won’t hold my breath.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
rochow 6/1/2022 7:56:50 PM (No. 1172935)
That's how men and police used to act; this is the exception. I am surprised that the Uvalde police did not have a LBDG:DJDMDIEHMIDJDK discussion first!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
wweste 6/1/2022 8:48:09 PM (No. 1172992)
#14 - Since 2000, right after Columbine, law enforcement officers have been trained to form a quick team as soon as two officers are on scene and move to the sound of the gunfire and engage the shooter (that means shoot at him until he is neutralized). I was chief of a very remote agency who worked near towns with no police departments. We trained for the first officer on scene to enter the building, move to sound of the gunfire and engage the shooter until they were neutralized. It may sound rah-rah to you, but is brutal gut wrenching service to the public.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/1/2022 10:18:14 PM (No. 1173069)
Re #16, I was not interested in generalities is the point. When engage is presented as it usually is it is a generality, a theory. What would engagement have amounted to when this guy was holed up in a room where he cold not be seen, surrounded (as far as anyone outside knew) by a bunch of fourth grade children?
I’m not being sarcastic. Just questioning that stock internet term “engage”. “Should have engaged”, etc. Too facile, too pat.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/1/2022 10:22:02 PM (No. 1173075)
(hit submit too soon)
For example, how would a potential engager, without a clear view of a shooter, know that he was not holding a child or a teaher in front of him to take any fire from one of you?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/1/2022 10:23:40 PM (No. 1173076)
Correction: teacher.
(I’m a pretty good speller, but my hands are now damaged so are typo-prone.)
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
MickTurn 6/2/2022 1:14:19 AM (No. 1173193)
How many cops were cowarding outside while this ONE person saved many lives.
ALL the cops on the scene that did nothing should not just be fired, but should be in PRISON as accessories to MURDER!
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If the Bidet junta had its way, the barber would not own a shotgun or any other weapon, and the rescuer would be at liberty to hide outside with the police and wait for the killer to decide that he'd killed enough kids.