As we previously reported, as the story about the Uvalde shooting has evolved, we’ve learned that the police didn’t immediately rush in to try to save the kids in the school but indeed, set up a cordon outside the school, and kept parents back, as they worked out what to do with the shooter inside the school with the kids. According to reports, the shooter was in the school for over an hour, while the parents pleaded with the police outside.
The parents were even subjugated, we wrote.
We now have additional information to show how terrible it is.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the shooter had been shooting in the area for twelve minutes prior to entering the school. He also didn’t encounter a resource officer as had previously been reported.
The shooter began shooting at people after he crashed his grandmother’s truck near the school at 11:28 a.m. A 911 call came in at 11:30 reporting a shooter. After climbing over the fence, he fired shots before entering the school at 11:40. The police arrived around 11:44. But the Border Patrol Tactical team didn’t go in until an hour later — around 12:40. Local officials said that police were on the scene very quickly after he got to the school, but they weren’t able to get into the classroom where he had barricaded himself.
Parents who had been kept behind bars and cordoned off were furious at police not allowing them in. The parents begged the police to let them in, and they agreed. Angeli Rose, one of the parents who was the mother to two students in the second- and third grades at the school, claimed that police officers had handcuffed Angeli Rose for interfering with an ongoing investigation. “The police were doing nothing,” she said. “They were just standing outside the fence. They weren’t going in there or running anywhere.” She convinced local police to get the other law enforcement officers to free her. She said it was chaos all around her — that police had tackled one father and thrown him to the ground, while a third parent was pepper-sprayed.
That’s why you had this video, the desperation of the parents is stark and heartbreaking.
Now this video is much clearer. Cops stopped parents helping their children. pic.twitter.com/zhQfUjlpjd https://t.co/DqgZUH3uCC
— Matt Novak (@paleofuture) May 26, 2022
Once released Gomez jumped over the fence and ran to the school with her children. Gomez claimed that she also saw a cop use a stun gun on a father trying get his child off a bus. “They didn’t do that to the shooter, but they did that to us. That’s how it felt,” Gomez explained.
Juan Maldonado (Texas DPS Officer) stated that he and his husband, one of the teacher’s victims, broke in to the house in order to rescue the children. He also showed the injuries from cutting out windows with their hands.
Also, there was this clip where the Texas DPS Lieutenant at 1:19 seems to claim that officers went into their home and took their children out. It’s not clear who those officers were or if they were able to get out any other kids.
Here’s a Texas DPS Lieutenant telling a local station that some officers breached the school to get their own children BEFORE the shooter was taken down. pic.twitter.com/BrvS4sCqp6
— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) May 26, 2022
“Right. So what we do know, Vanessa, right now, that there was some police officers, families trying to get their children out of school because it was a active shooter situation right now.”
Many believed that this meant that police officers were only able to get their children out. While the parents were asking for help, the police officers only got their own kids out. This has led to more questions. Is it possible to take your kids in, but not try and help others? These questions need to be addressed.
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