One thing I haven't heard about the Uvalde massacre

[KS Toronado]

in regards to the two adjoining classrooms where all the killings appear to have taken place,
were there any windows the cops could have looked in? Most rooms have them.

[Scrivener7]

1. That mom was able to go into the building, get her kids and get out. Presumably she

had an inkling about where the guy was.

[Bayard]

5. I hadn't heard that one

Will have to google.

[Scrivener7]

6. Here. Astonishing.

https://www.insider.com/texas-mom-ran-school-pulled-two-kids-out-uvalde-shooting-2022-5

[Bayard]

16. Thanks!

I remember her, but hadn't heard anything past her persuading local cops who knew her to turn her loose.

Good for her!

[Igel]

7. Not that hard, actually.

Go in the building. The rooms without bullet holes in the doors and police standing outside of them? They're fairly safe to enter.

When there are bullet holes in the door and cops standing next to the door, that's all the inkling you need.

By then all the students not in the occupied rooms should have been evacuated. Run, hide, fight. Or the "proper" newer, phrase: "Avoid, deny, defend."


When my kid was in elementary school, I knew what room(s) he was in. A couple times a year there were days where parents were encouraged to go in--start of school, parent-teacher conference days, visit-the-classroom days.

[KS Toronado]

2. After reading my own post, had another thought....

Would it help our side to start calling them "school massacres" instead of school shootings?
Massacre definition is an indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people.

[2naSalit]

3. Yes...

Call them what they are instead of sanitizing it so everybody can put it behind them.

[enough]

4. Yes

[niyad]

8. School massacres/bloodbaths.

[Gaugamela]

9. School construction projects go through an elaborate process of proposal

and review, with designs being approved by the school board and presented to the public. I can’t imagine any school district or community approving elementary school classrooms without windows, especially in a state like Texas where heat waves are common. I have no doubt that the police were watching through the windows with binoculars and likely with sniper scopes. I’ve wondered about this too. Maybe the shooter was hiding from the windows. This will probably come out in the investigation.

[KS Toronado]

10. I keep thinking there had to be windows

And if as you said " were watching through the windows with binoculars.....sniper scopes."
and could not see the shooter, then they should have known it was relatively safe
to walk up to the windows and get a better shot at him.

[ThoughtCriminal]

11. "Right now DPS does not have an answer for that"

Yes, apparently those classrooms have windows. No they haven't explained why the police did not use them.

2:45

Some people are asking DPS why police officers didn't try to shoot the suspect through the windows of these classrooms when they were locked out from these doors. Right now, DPS does not have an answer for that..."

[KS Toronado]

12. THANK YOU for the video

This should go viral, I'll be spreading it around. Why didn't they go to the windows?

[malaise]

14. My question is this

Were those cops deaf? Didn't they hear the gunfire?

[mainer]

13. Can't the classroom windows be unlocked and opened from the inside?

Couldn't students and teachers escape that way? That has to be part of the escape plan, without requiring that glass be broken.

[KS Toronado]

15. You would certainly think so, in case of fire.