Interesting read. This school district police chief started out as a 911 dispatcher and worked his way up. He was born in Uvalde and lived there all his life. His department in Uvalde consists of 4 officers and 1 detective. That's it. Plus him as chief makes 6. He was so clearly out of his league with this.Man who ordered cops NOT to confront Texas gunman was a 911 dispatcher
Uvalde's school district police chief Pete Arredondo is facing backlash for refusing to let his officers engage the active shooter at Robb Elementarywww.dailymail.co.uk
And this
Yes, and as I just heard one retired police expert say, "If they weren't prepared to do that, they shouldn't have become police officers." I asked my friend who is a very experienced RCMP officer, and she said, "In the last 5 years, we have all been trained strategically go into the area and take down the threat to prevent further loss of life. I can not speak to other police agencies."
Thank you!
Bravo Arkay. I agree with you 100%. I bet you were an amazing teacher!
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Worth noting for what reason?
Appending to my earlier post to add the account of 4th-grade survivor Miah Cerillo that told CNN that the shooter did shoot out the window of the hall entry door to the classroom (and not the internal door between rooms) just as her teacher approached the door after receiving an email that a shooter was in the building. Miah provides that after SR shot the door window, he entered and backed her teacher into the classroom where he said "Goodnight" and shot her point-blank.
I believe there will be many that will be held accountable. Many.
Maybe teachers could stay remote and teach via zoom. They could then teach class in multiple schools at the same time. The cost savings would allow schools to be staffed with more armed security guards.
He kept shooting at the LE at the door. AR-15's will go through body armor like butter. Plus they were acting on command to "hold". They needed a key because they could kneel (below) the window and unlock the door - instead of reaching in, drawing his attention and getting shot themselves.Appending to my earlier post to add the account of 4th-grade survivor Miah Cerillo that told CNN that the shooter did shoot out the window of the hall entry door to the classroom (and not the internal door between rooms) just as her teacher approached the door after receiving an email that a shooter was in the building. Miah provides that after SR shot the door, he entered and backed her teacher into the classroom where he said "Goodnight" and shot her point-blank.
She described it all happening so fast — her teacher backed into the classroom and the gunman followed. She told CNN he made eye contact with one of the teachers, said, “Goodnight,” and then shot her.
He opened fire, shooting the other teacher and many of Miah’s friends. She said bullets flew by her, and fragments hit her shoulders and head. The girl was later treated at the hospital and released with fragment wounds; she described to CNN that clumps of her hair were falling out now.
Miah said after shooting students in her class, the gunman went through a door into an adjoining classroom. She heard screams, and the sound of shots in that classroom. After the shots stopped, though, she says the shooter started playing loud music – sad music, she said.
The girl and a friend managed to get her dead teacher’s phone and call 911 for help. She said she told a dispatcher, “Please come … we’re in trouble.”
Miah said she was scared the gunman would return to her classroom to kill her and a few other surviving friends. So, she dipped her hands in the blood of a classmate – who lay next to her, already dead – and then smeared the blood all over herself to play dead.
Miah said it felt like three hours that she lay there, covered in her classmate’s blood, with her friends.
She smeared blood on herself and played dead: 11-year-old reveals chilling details of the massacre | CNN
An 11-year-old survivor of the Robb Elementary School massacre in Uvalde, Texas, feared the gunman would come back for her so she smeared herself in her friend's blood and played dead.www.cnn.com
ETA: So the question remains, why did LE have to wait for the door key from the janitor when the window was already fractured (i.e., allowing LE to reach inside and unlock the door)? My heart breaks for this brave girl and her classmates!
This happened down here in Florida when zoom school first started back in 2020. So you can't stop this.
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I can’t agree about the teacher. He or she has a critical, trained role in ensuring student safety. He or she failed. I am empathetic, but it is a career-ending mistake.
