Many bad stories have emerged from the Uvalde mass shooting. We saw the troubling picture that they had of the police at 11:52, in gear with a shield, and they didn’t go in for another 58 minutes. They didn’t even try the door as the minutes ticked away or they would have found it wasn’t even locked.
BREAKING NEWS: New footage and evidence show that Robb Elementary School was surrounded by multiple officers with guns and at least one shield. They didn’t enter the classroom for another 58 minutes. Stay tuned for more information @statesman @KVUE. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/0BcYgq2hcQ
— Tony Plohetski (@tplohetski) June 20, 2022
It’s hard to believe that there are still more coming out.
The latest may not be the best.
Col. Steven McCraw, Texas Department of Public Safety Director, testified Wednesday regarding the tragic events that occurred to Eva Mireles. Ruben Ruiz was their husband. Ruiz was also a district police officer. McCraw says Ruiz got a call from her saying that she had been “shot and she’s dying.” Ruiz told the authorities in charge at the scene that at 11:48 a.m.
Listen for just a minute and it’s hard to take.
“And what happened to him, is he tried to move forward into the hallway,” McCraw said. “He was detained and they took his gun away from him and escorted him off the scene.”
An officer responded on the spot to Eva Mireles’ husband, a Uvalde teacher. DPS Director says that when he tried reaching her with his gun, several officers took it away and then escorted him to safety. https://t.co/gI5StYusfV
— KHOU 11 News Houston (@KHOU) June 22, 2022
Eva Mireles was alive 22 minutes later at 12:10 p.m. when one of the children called 911 for help, “I don’t want to die, my teacher is dead, my teacher is dead, please send help, send help for my teacher, she is shot but still alive.”
Mireles’ call and her desperate husband made it clear that there were people alive on the other side of the door and the people on the scene knew it.
But the shooter wasn’t confronted until more than an hour later. Mireles survived, even though he was dead.
“Officers could be seen in video footage rushing a few children out of the room and carrying out Ms. Mireles, who appeared to be in extreme pain,” the Times reported earlier this month. “She reached an ambulance, but died before reaching a hospital.”
There’s a general concept spoken of in emergency medicine. It’s called the “golden hour.” It means that it’s important to get help to a critically injured patient within the first hour, after which their chance of dying increases. Each case is unique. They wasted their golden hour by not responding. It’s hard not to think that if they had gone in sooner, they might have increased her chances of survival. And it’s hard to think of the agony that her husband must have gone through as well in all that, knowing he could save her, but them holding him, as well as the parents of the kids, back. But it’s also hard to imagine why every officer wasn’t screaming to get into the building right along with them.
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