Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire So the cop says, "let me circle back to that..".

Jesse seem fairly pro cop in general but he raises some questions with this. "Something just doesn't seem right..".

Not a good day for Uvalde PD. It took an off-duty Border Patrol hero with ballls to go in and kill the lunatic.

You would hope 48 recent lock downs would have motivated more security.... or at least locked all the doors.


Uvalde Schools Locked Down at Least 48 Times This Academic Year
Sheriff crime scene tape is seen outside of Robb Elementary School as State troopers guard the area in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, 2022. - An 18-year-old gunman killed 14 children and a teacher at an elementary school in Texas on Tuesday, according to the state's governor, in the nation's …ALLISON DINNER/AFP via Getty Images
BOB PRICE26 May 2022181
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The Uvalde public school district is no stranger to campus lockdowns. In October 2021, Mayor Don McLaughlin reported the district had been forced into lockdowns 48 times during the first few months of the school year, largely due to human smuggler pursuits near campuses.

At the time, Uvalde Mayor McLaughlin joined with a commission of local government representatives of Kinney and Uvalde Counties to demand action from the Texas Department of Emergency Management (TDEM) regarding the growing border crisis, Breitbart Texas’ Randy Clark reported. The county and city officials detailed the consequential impact of the border crisis on local resources.

Robb Elementary School, one of the district’s seven schools, became the scene of one of the worst mass-casualty shootings in American history on Tuesday morning when an 18-year-old man entered the school. By the time the incident ended, the shooter killed 19 students and two teachers.

The mayor told TDEM officials that Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District officials had to lock down schools “48 times this year due to high-speed pursuits and migrants fleeing from law enforcement.”

Clark reported in October 2021:

Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin told the TDEM the region needs refrigerated facilities to hold deceased migrants. “I can’t send local decedents from our community to San Antonio because our facilities are full–that is unacceptable,” McLaughlin said.

McLaughlin told the TDEM his community dispatched all six available ambulances on one occasion to treat migrants in need of care at the local rail yard. That left residents with impaired emergency response capabilities for most of the day. McLaughlin says local schools have been locked down 48 times this year due to high-speed pursuits and migrants fleeing law enforcement in his city.

McLaughlin said local law enforcement is dealing with armed smugglers and migrants with convictions including murder and sex offenses. “When the Haitian crisis was going on, the border leading to our city was wide open, there appears to be no end in sight, we need help and answers,” he explained.

Breitbart Texas reached out to school officials on Thursday for an update on the number of lockdowns faced during this nearly completed school year. A response was not available by press time.

I retired from law enforcement recently. The current training when I retired on active shooters was you make entry and stop the threat. If you have multiple officers great, if you’re alone so be it, you make entry. Every second is potentially another life.

There’s no good answer and someone will be “retiring” lol

Still active LEO and that is the SOP. Go to the sound of the gunfire. Stop killing. Everything else is secondary.
Patrick

Thanks. That's what I thought. God bless.

Thanks Jag, I’m glad to be done.

A fuucked-up misinformation chitshow for sure.

Related report just posted regarding a ballistic shield... This report seems to indicate "bullet-grazed head guy" was not the one that shot the punk.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/20...o-reach-barricaded-texas-school-shooter/


Multiple law enforcement sources revealed to Breitbart Texas that part of the delay in stopping the barricaded elementary school shooter hinged on a deadly mix of the shooter’s defensive tactics and the lack of needed gear. Specifically, officers lacked the ballistic shield needed to enter the classroom with the barricaded shooter. Attempting to breach the door without a ballistic shield would have resulted in certain death for the officers which could have provided the shooter with the officers’ weapons and ammunition. There is also the possibility that the shooter could have taken police communications gear off of the officers’ bodies, thereby giving the shooter the ability to listen to police movement and plans.

A Border Patrol source with knowledge of the methods used by the hastily formed team of law enforcement officers to engage the suspect described the difficulty faced by the officers. The source, with decades of prior experience on the Border Patrol’s elite BORTAC team, says the situation became much more difficult to resolve once the shooter barricaded himself in the classroom.

The source, not authorized to speak to the media, told Breitbart Texas a barricaded subject is the most difficult tactical situation to resolve. In this case, the source says the shooter most likely planned the attack days or weeks in advance, perhaps prior to the purchase of two AR-15 style rifles and the ammunition he carried onto the school grounds.

According to the source, officers at the scene who had been trained in advanced tactical procedures located a level IV ballistic shield. This tool allowed them to approach the shooter without immediately being killed. A United States Marshal Service employee acquired the necessary ballistic shield that ultimately allowed the quickly formed tactical team to enter the building and reach the barricaded shooter.

Even with the shield, as reported by Breitbart Texas, one of the Border Patrol agents who rushed the shooter still suffered a grazing gunshot wound to the head. The law enforcement team did not wait for personal protective equipment before acting.

Another Border Patrol agent was also on the makeshift tactical team and fired the shots believed to have stopped the suspect, the source confirmed.

“If the subject can effectively take out an officer, he gains one more weapon, more loaded magazines, and law enforcement communications are instantly compromised allowing the suspect to know what the next plan of attack is,” the source explained.

Breitbart Texas spoke to a local law enforcement official who also says small-town police departments lack access to this equipment due to funding issues. The official says he is dismayed at the false premise that officers on the scene were afraid to enter.

The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity due to the ongoing investigation, told Breitbart Texas one officer poised at the window of the classroom could not gain access and ultimately lost his child who was inside the room.

“Our officers had their own children in the building — one of whom was killed,” the official stated. “We wanted to end this as badly as anyone else. To think that we would stand around and let children die by choice is unconscionable for our officers right now during their time of mourning.”

The official says most law enforcement agencies in the area, including the Uvalde school police are stretched thin. Training opportunities are costly and unaffordable with the small budgets the departments have access to.

He says the community also lacks sufficient mental health outreach and treatment facilities within the city. He hopes the shooting will lead to discussion and material changes to reduce the likelihood of a repeated tragedy.

“The whole community is mourning the loss of these children and educators, and we need time to heal,” he said. “We will be closer to finding answers to how we can improve security soon when this investigation is over.”

Randy Clark is a 32-year veteran of the United States Border Patrol. Prior to his retirement, he served as the Division Chief for Law Enforcement Operations, directing operations for nine Border Patrol Stations within the Del Rio, Texas, Sector. Follow him on Twitter @RandyClarkBBTX

Morning

Tucker covered it as good or better

Good grief who changed the video?

Or they could hang that fucquers body from a light pole naked and let people know what's in store for their carcass if they shoot our kids.

Thank you for the clarity. Glad that the procedure is correct on paper at least.

What a heaping, steaming shovel load of horseshit. This loser just happened to crash outside the school and made a dash for any door that was open.

And just why was tear gas and smoke not immediately lobbed into the classroom? Take away a noob shooters eyes and he'll have trouble reloading or shooting anything other than wild shots.

Cops can be such dumb A$$es.

Have you ever seen Smoke Cloak? That would be nice to have in schools.

That's just not so.

The shooter planned this for a long time, and posted his intent on social media.

He crashed the pickup on the way to the school.

Spoken with lots of experience, I'm sure... LOL

Cops, bless their hearts.

Sure wise one. I guess the EXPERIENCED POLICE OFFICERS' method of just letting him shoot kids for 50 minutes worked out so much better.

You do know that Smoke and Gas has been used by police and in warfare for over a hundred years.. not exactly a new concept.

This!