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Demovictory9

(32,443 posts)
Sun Jun 19, 2022, 08:44 PM Jun 2022

Video: Police Didn't Try Uvalde Classroom Door , door might have been unlocked

Video: Police Didn't Try Uvalde Classroom Door
Law enforcement source says door might have been unlocked


n the 77 minutes that a Texas gunman was alone in two connected classrooms with Robb Elementary students and teachers, police didn't try to open the door, a law enforcement source said. Police later claimed they couldn't get into the rooms and were hunting for a key or a tool that would open the door. But surveillance video shows officers didn't try the door, the San Antonio Express-News reports. During that time, the gunman shot to death 19 children and two teachers. Investigators reportedly don't think the killer could have locked the door from the inside.

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Regardless, officers had access to, but didn't use, a crowbar-like tool called a halligan that can open a locked door, per the Express-News. Shortly after the massacre, the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety said the gunman locked the door behind him. "Each door can lock from the inside," Steven McCraw said. Officials have received dozens of requests for copies of the surveillance footage, per KENS, which the city is opposing

https://www.newser.com/story/321926/uvalde-classroom-door-might-have-been-unlocked.html
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Video: Police Didn't Try Uvalde Classroom Door , door might have been unlocked (Original Post) Demovictory9 Jun 2022 OP
I can't stand it. Incompetence was in charge, not the chief. brush Jun 2022 #1
What was all that bullshit about not having the key? madaboutharry Jun 2022 #2
+1000000 crickets Jun 2022 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author madaboutharry Jun 2022 #3

madaboutharry

(40,199 posts)
2. What was all that bullshit about not having the key?
Sun Jun 19, 2022, 08:58 PM
Jun 2022

The police lied about everything. Uvalde is apparently a corrupt little town run by dirty politicians and dirty cops.

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