Child: "Please send the police now!" - nothing happened for another 48 minutes!

[Roland99]

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A girl who was inside one of the classrooms where the gunman opened fire called 911 several times during the siege, Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety says.

“Please send the police now,” she said at one point.

from 12:03pm to 12:51pm, MULTIPLE children called 9-1-1, begging for police to come.

48 minutes of pure, abject horror for these kids as the cops and border patrol DID ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY NOTHING!!

They are accomplices to mass murder!

[Wingus Dingus]

1. They were out in the parking lot, wishing all you defenseless third graders the best.

[dalton99a]

2. The people must protect and serve the police.

The police must not be exposed to risk.

[OhZone]

3. And thinking and praying too.

[Wingus Dingus]

4. Thoughts and prayers, from the police.

That's what they had to offer for a solid hour.

[inthewind21]

10. No, it's worse than that

There were 19 officers in the hallway on the other side of the door . That was covered in the press conference.

[IronLionZion]

16. Maybe they sent thoughts and prayers

[njhoneybadger]

5. They should tarred and feathered (with chicken feathers).

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. They have no legal duty to help. What a terrible way to learn that reality.

[lpbk2713]

7. "We're kinda busy right now."

"We are tied up trying to keep your parents from coming in and saving you."

[Emile]

8. and they could hear gun shots over the phone! Jesus what

a ducking mess up.

[Roland99]

9. and one official said they thought the active shooter situation was over?

then why the F*** were they still waiting outside?!?!?!

[Hav]

14. When you hear gun shots, isn't that usually the signal

that the situation has escalated and that the police really, really needs to act? It's unreal that nothing happened.

[shrike3]

11. Just wow.

[MyMission]

12. Apologies to Texas and Texans, but your state is

So mired in political shit and grift, and I have family who lives there.
I saw a DU thread earlier that was very concerning, for humanitarian reasons.

Posted from Uvalde: "We are not a red state. We are a oppressed state."
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216735733

Of course the Texans at DU, and elsewhere, understand or try to comprehend how and why things happen the way they do in Texas. Corruption and incompetence exist everywhere to varying degrees. But Texas does things in a big way, and this was a way big display of it.

The police response was not just unacceptable, it was negligent and exudes fascism, waiting for swat or border patrol to respond and act while controlling and subduing any attempts by family members/citizens to take action and respond. Those were probably their instructions.
It breaks my heart and makes me mad.

Facts have been suppressed as they were trickled out by "officials". Police and politicians trying to orchestrate a response that can explain and justify this screwed up handling of this horrible and tragic event. More will come out, but not only from officials. Learning that the 911 calls didn't bring a swift response (there were already officers at the scene?) Is heartbreaking and makes me mad! I know I said that already. I expect I will feel that way as more information emerges about this recent tragedy.

[LymphocyteLover]

15. I hope this shakes them up and they reject Abbott... between this and his other awful policies

I don't know how there isn't some sort of uprising

[Hav]

13. Jesus Christ

That transcript is horrifying, yet everybody needs to see and probably hear this to confront the brutal truth.
Imagine seeing your classmates getting murdered one by one and those who you thought would help you don't do anything for an eternity. The thought of a kid having to go from informing the police from the number of classmates killed to the number of people that are still alive is heartbreaking.