Witnesses: Police Refused to Enter School as Uvalde Shooter Rampaged, Subdued Parents Begging Them to Act
By Bonchie | May 26, 2022 9:00 AM ET

One of the major questions from the moment that news broke of the horrific shooting at a school in Uvalde, TX, was how police were reportedly on the scene before Salvador Ramos even entered, yet he was able to kill so many children.

Early on, there were mentions from law enforcement that the initial responding officers waited for a "tactical team," something that seemed so incredibly ridiculous that most glossed over it. Yet, according to witnesses who spoke to the Associated Press, that is what happened. There are also videos that add more context to the tragic event.

Disclaimer: I leave open the possibility that the witnesses quoted in the following report are somehow mistaken. If they are, law enforcement should come out and address the issue directly. This is not something that can be left ambiguous.

Cops stood outside the school while the killer rampaged inside.

Onlookers yelled at them to go in. They didn't. One parent urged bystanders:

"Let's just rush in because the cops aren't doing anything like they are supposed to." @AP story: https://t.co/l2CqPCzmAf

- Andy Specht (@AndySpecht) May 26, 2022

Frustrated onlookers urged police officers to charge into the Texas elementary school where a gunman's rampage killed 19 children and two teachers, witnesses said Wednesday, as investigators worked to track the massacre that lasted upwards of 40 minutes and ended when the 18-year-old shooter was killed by a Border Patrol team.

"Go in there! Go in there!" nearby women shouted at the officers soon after the attack began, said Juan Carranza, 24, who saw the scene from outside his house, across the street from Robb Elementary School in the close-knit town of Uvalde. Carranza said the officers did not go in...

...Upset that police were not moving in, he raised the idea of charging into the school with several other bystanders.

"Let's just rush in because the cops aren't doing anything like they are supposed to," he said. "More could have been done."

"They were unprepared," he added.

If the police actually waited 40 minutes to enter the school, that's unforgivable. Whoever made that decision needs to be fired immediately, and every officer who followed it also needs to be relieved of their duties. I understand it's a tough job. I get the pay isn't great. But law enforcement has a duty to protect and serve.

At some point, you have to try to play hero ball and let the chips fall. I know that might have cost an officer his or her life, but you can't, under any circumstances, allow a shooter to enter a school and systematically kill 21 people and then barricade himself in a classroom. There is no excuse for that. No amount of protocol or risk makes it acceptable to stand outside and hassle parents who are begging the police to enter the building and do something.

Juan Carranza, the father who described the situation, described the situation to the AP and his story appears to be corroborated by videos that until now lacked context. In the below clip, you can see officers trying to subdue what is assumed to be one of the parents while police remain outside.

This video make so much more sense now. The cops literally stopped parents from helping their kids. pic.twitter.com/zhQfUjlpjd https://t.co/DqgZUH3uCC

- Matt Novak (@paleofuture) May 26, 2022

I've got no words for how those who lost children in this terrible crime must feel knowing that there was this period of inaction. Having a son or daughter be murdered is already unimaginable, but now they will be haunted by the knowledge that something could have been possibly been done directly on that day and wasn't.

While people are arguing over useless background checks, there needs to be a real conversation about what happened with law enforcement here. This can't be swept under the rug and left to pass with a shrug. If this story is further corroborated and officers did actually stand around waiting for a tactical team, not confronting the shooter, heads need to roll.

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Hmmmmm.....kinda !ike parkland, chumpfscum?
Where a fat,...ARMED school security/lazy entitled deputy a-waitin on his bloated pension did nothing....
while his heavily armed mucho macho pig buddies.
Sworn to protect and defend.......did nothing
While Innocent children are being shredded......by a kid. One kid.......with zero training.
Against multiple guys with SWAT training.
Guess if the "good guys with a gun" are a bunch of gutless pension seeking pussies, seems that's not a viable option, huh chumpfscum vermin

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It's a democratic hoax

But: the fat orange traitor messiah said he would have charged the parkland dork.......barehanded!
riiiiight

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It's a democratic hoax

I'm a little confused about this whole good guy with a gun
thang, clueless chumpfdirts.
So: this shooting is in tekzas,right? Everybody's armed and trained.....rite?
To protect their rights and their families......with their lives if necessary........ riiight altbrites? (hey lunchpoop, explain it to garylyn)
So along comes yet another underage incel loser who buys a legal gun (his first!) despite multiple red flags......again
Who storms an elementary school, intent to kill.
Armed, trained parents want to storm the school....this is why they have their guns!
And a bunch of armor clad, military weapons and trained fat asses with badges......prevent them from doing so.
And stand around as 19 kids are slaughtered.
By one untrained kook ass kid......
all this money and training and political hot air and..........
that's all they could do? One untrained kid?

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It's a democratic hoax

At this point the cops had EVERY ability to kill this shooter or at least pin him down.

There was NO school officer that engaged the shooter....as they originally claimed!

The shooter shot at a few people IN THE PARKING LOT!

The crapbag just waltzed right in.

The parents begged the cops to go shoot the POS!

One parent even asked for a gun and vest and said that HE WOULD GO IN HIMSELF....and was refused!

WTF!

THE COPS LET THOSE KIDS GET SHOT!

FACT!

THOSE COPS HAVE THOSE KIDS BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS!

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The video is out. Fucking fat , cowardly cops were more concerned with themselves than THE RAMPAGE IN THOSE CLASSROOMS. Better be some fucking firings and at least suspensions.

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I was right.

I think we all agree that the cops were pussies and should have gone in to save the kids.

Can we agree that the ones who kill unarmed Black men are a problem too?

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I was right.

Sure, as long as they weren't defending themselves from an attack on there lives.

And that is the basis for BLM.



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I was right.

Then why exactly hasn't BLM done ANYTHING for black on black killings?

I'll tell you why COLESLAW....

BECAUSE BLM IS BULLSHIT!



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-They are both card carrying narcissists.
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