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Roland99

(53,345 posts) Thu May 26, 2022, 02:49 PM May 2022

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What?! A parent DID make it inside Robb Elementary after having been briefly HANDCUFFED [View all]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/uvalde-residents-voice-frustration-over-shooting-response-11653588161

Ms. Gomez convinced local Uvalde police officers whom she knew to persuade the marshals to set her free. Around her, the scene was frantic. She said she saw a father tackled and thrown to the ground by police and a third pepper-sprayed. Once freed from her cuffs, Ms. Gomez made her distance from the crowd, jumped the school fence, and ran inside to grab her two children. She sprinted out of the school with them.

WTF is wrong with this country?!

The cops were engaging parents MORE than they were trying to get to the shooter!

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What?! A parent DID make it inside Robb Elementary after having been briefly HANDCUFFED [View all] Roland99 May 2022 OP

Wsj is paywalled. Mosby May 2022 #1

I mean you can if you pay for it. CrackityJones75 May 2022 #2

I'm on my phone so I don't have the link but Maraya1969 May 2022 #32

I use simple tricks. Roland99 May 2022 #4

Active investigation? Oh hell, it was an active shooter. They were supposed to be in there. halfulglas May 2022 #14

Nobody thought to toss tear gas inside? wnylib May 2022 #30

Tear gas would not kill the kids, just disable them, and the killer. SunSeeker May 2022 #64

Try this webpage. Swede May 2022 #8

The Internet Archive is the older, well-known intheflow May 2022 #68

Thanks Swede May 2022 #72

Actually, I signed up for free articles. I don't know how many I get, because I've only used 2, tblue37 May 2022 #22

Keep clearing your cookies. rickford66 May 2022 #37

here ya go HUAJIAO May 2022 #24

Thanks, that worked. Mosby May 2022 #54

This is America. We threaten and punish those doing the right thing. Irish_Dem May 2022 #3

I think the cons approve this narrative SleeplessinSoCal May 2022 #18

Putin/GOP want the US to be seen as a failure of democracy. Irish_Dem May 2022 #20

Back to Slavery. SleeplessinSoCal May 2022 #23

O my god Dave says May 2022 #5

... ck4829 May 2022 #6

The 'country' at large is OK, but elleng May 2022 #7

cowards llashram May 2022 #9

Dollars to doughnuts, these tw*ts will be getting medals from Abbott before the end of June. Probatim May 2022 #10

wouldn't surprise me llashram May 2022 #11

I agree that it sounds and looks awful. wnylib May 2022 #35

of course the llashram May 2022 #51

At the very minimum, cops should have been evacuating the other classrooms, through Nay May 2022 #66

yep llashram May 2022 #71

No, it WAS awful. No doubt or theories or excuses or 'splaining. nt Tommymac May 2022 #65

cops want the toys but not the risk. nt Javaman May 2022 #12

WOW LetMyPeopleVote May 2022 #13

Fascists are more concerned with controlling than protecting. nt yaesu May 2022 #15

For all that police presence Traildogbob May 2022 #16

Yep. It was enforcement theater, with no intention of protecting anyone but themselves. ancianita May 2022 #53

Holy fuck Novara May 2022 #17

A lot of bad coming out Dukkha May 2022 #19

No Reponders! 3825-87867 May 2022 #27

In a crisis, Moms outperform cops mainer May 2022 #21

How did she get inside? Lasher May 2022 #25

probably multiple. And considering cops were waiting for CBP Bortach unit, not a lot of eyes on it Roland99 May 2022 #26

This doesn't make sense. Lasher May 2022 #33

I've also read the School officer didn't try to engage, just verbal Roland99 May 2022 #38

And I've read there was no School Resource Officer at all. Lasher May 2022 #47

48 hours is PLENTY enough time to get the facts straight. Roland99 May 2022 #48

At today's official briefing by the Texas Dept. of Safety summer_in_TX May 2022 #58

I saw it, Summer Lasher May 2022 #60

Yes, they've whetted everyone's curiosity. summer_in_TX May 2022 #63

The actual cops have admitted that there was no resource officer or any other officer Nay May 2022 #67

Same here, we are behind double buzzers. Looks like they doubled their school security budget bet i uponit7771 May 2022 #40

I just saw on TV that a teacher had propped the back door open. Lasher May 2022 #73

There was an unlocked door and she jumped the fence or got past the police barrier and got her child uponit7771 May 2022 #39

Do you have a link for that? Lasher May 2022 #44

Just heard it on MSNBC, this story will no doubt be on major papers soon uponit7771 May 2022 #45

WSJ Roland99 May 2022 #49

Thanks. Lasher May 2022 #50

On Tuesday, I read that a parent broke a window and grabbed her kids LeftInTX May 2022 #55

I read that too. Lasher May 2022 #56

This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music May 2022 #28

She knew local police, it was the US Marshals who handcuffed her uponit7771 May 2022 #41

This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music May 2022 #42

WTF Snackshack May 2022 #29

They'd rather arrest parents trying to protect their children than mass shooters. Lancero May 2022 #31

It sounds Rebl2 May 2022 #34

I read they had JUST had an active shooter drill! slightlv May 2022 #52

Instead of first responders MoonlitKnight May 2022 #36

With all the gear and tech cops have received from the military, they turn out to be cowards. NullTuples May 2022 #43

arrest the cops for murder moonshinegnomie May 2022 #46

A cop could get hurt by confronting the shooter. LiberalArkie May 2022 #57

Most of the towns swat team is hispanic, so that seems unlikely questionseverything May 2022 #59

She's married to a cop. LeftInTX May 2022 #61

Haven't seen that reported Roland99 May 2022 #62

A mother who was handcuffed outside the Texas school shooting later ran into the school spanone May 2022 #69

WSJ doesn't know the difference between types of LEOs. intheflow May 2022 #70