Smoking Gun for the Uvalde Police Response to Deadly School Shooter Emerges – Opinion

While the tragic school shooting in Uvalde, TX, has become overshadowed by a wider national push for “gun control,” the response of the local police remains a top issue.

RedState extensively documented the consequences of decisions that were costly to lives and made absolutely no sense. In the aftermath of the shooting, reports indicated that the police did not allow the police to enter the school and instead chose to harass and detain parents. In the days following the shooting, revelations that the police waited for a “tactical team” and then wouldn’t even allow that tactical team to enter until the Border Patrol agents finally disobeyed orders over an hour later painted a disturbing picture.

Even past that, we’ve since learned that the shooter walked around for a full 12 minutes before entering the school, shooting indiscriminately. It is puzzling that this happened when the Uvalde police department is only ten minutes away. The smoking gun reveals that Uvalde police officers are directly to blame for permitting so much bloodshed.

BREAKING: Surveillance video from inside Robb Elementary School shows that police never attempted to open either of the two classroom doors that housed the shooter-mass murderer and his victims-children/teachers.

— BNN Newsroom (@BNNBreaking) June 19, 2022

This is in contradiction to previous claims that police tried to get into the building using a set of keys belonging to a janitor.

— BNN Newsroom (@BNNBreaking) June 19, 2022

This timeline is to clarify that the shooter was outside shooting for 12 minutes with no police response. The shooter then went into an unlocked backdoor and was followed by officers minutes later. Per their own account, police placed a barricade around the gunman to prevent him from entering the area. The police refused to allow entry, and instead sat there for more than an hour while a Border Patrol team entered the room.

Before this surveillance video was taken, police had claimed that they tried to get into the room but were stopped by gunfire. It is now clear that the police never attempted to enter, but instead fled like cowards and abdicated their duties of protecting and serving.

A mother, who went to school to save her children, revealed that shooting continued long after police arrived. This contradicts initial police claims that the shooter killed all the students in a matter of minutes. This means the shooter was killing children regularly while police sat by. That’s so unconscionable that it makes me feel sick to my stomach just to write.

It doesn’t get any worse than this, and it’s infuriating that so many, including some GOP senators, are choosing to obsess over meaningless, ineffective gun control policies instead of talking about the biggest, most direct failure in Uvalde. It is ridiculous to suggest that law-abiding citizens of the United States should arm themselves in the face the this shooting. What rational person would want their safety to be in the hands police officers who are unwilling to perform their duties? That’s the discussion we should actually be having right now instead of arguing over red flag laws.