Did Police in the Uvalde, Texas School Shooting Directly Violate Their Training Protocol?
Sometimes Lies Have Consequences
I’ve been following the Texas school shooting since it happened. I’ve been paying attention because the media is paying attention, and from my contrarian viewpoint, that raises the odds that an event was staged, planned or arranged in order to push a desired political objective. The attention by media whores, in a country that is up to its eyeballs in gun violence that gets ignored, is what sets off my BS detector and leads me to investigate further.
I have a personal reason to be interested in school shootings, as my older daughter is a high school student in Michigan. Both of my girls have been in public schools in America. All have very clear active shooter protocols in place: during school hours, the doors are locked inside (often two doors) and you have to get buzzed in by someone at the front desk. If you are picking up your child early due to some circumstance, your child is brought to you at the front office. The area to the classrooms is usually off limits and often has a separate door that also has to be buzzed from the front desk to open. I’ve delivered food to schools in Las Vegas the person who ordered it comes outside to pick it up. This is pretty standard at over a dozen schools I’ve been in or around across three different US states.
I haven’t even gotten to the protocol around a “suspicious person” or “active shooter.” Let’s just say that there is one. For the law enforcement and school resource officers one would expect that they would engage with a shooter. It’s part of the job.
This article laid this out very clearly. According to the official story, which has changed a baffling number of times, the police stood around for close to an hour outside the elementary school, doing nothing but blocking frantic parents from going in to save their children, because they “might get shot.” This as the gunman, who supposedly was shooting off his gun in front of the school for 12 minutes before finding an unlocked door (whereabouts of the resource officer currently unknown) was killing 19 children and 2 teachers inside. But hey, they were following orders to stand down.
Or were they?
I don’t even know where to start on this one. The unlocked door bothers me based on the current official story. Is it possible for someone to sneak in stealthily after an administrator forgot to lock the recess door or a janitor left open a service area? Probably, and that person would be tearfully recanting their mistake for the rest of their days. Is it possible for this to happen with SOMEBODY SHOOTING THEIR GUN FOR 12 MINUTES OUTSIDE? Is everybody in the school brain dead?
Getting back to the police response what kind of stand down orders would override their training? What did that conversation sound like? Was it a “Look we’ve been ordered on high from Biden’s handlers to stay outside until the FBI has set things up. There is no shooting the target was neutralized 20 minutes ago. Take the heat for this and we’ll give you a million dollars.” Was it that type of conversation? Perhaps that explains why Border Patrol were the ones to finally break orders and rush inside. They probably have a beef right now with the pres.
Was it more of a threat? “Look there’s a bomb under the school. If you breach that line or let those parents in we will blow up everyone. We’ll kill your family. Okay, you can get your daughter. Only her.” Was it something in between those things? Every single one of them should lose their badges.
Of course the knee jerk reaction to this by the White House is gun control. Quietly gun sales have exploded in America every time they have done this. It seems there is finally becoming pushback on the knee jerk official narrative. George Parry had a good write up .
From the article:
“In January 2019, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a report titled “Source and Use of Firearms Involved in Crimes: Survey of Prison Inmates, 2016.” It provides a statistical analysis of where and how state and federal prison inmates obtained firearms that they either possessed or used in the commission of their crimes.
Of the prisoners who used firearms in committing crimes such as murder, robbery, and burglary, only 1.3 percent obtained their guns from a retail source. Among those who possessed a firearm during their offense, 0.8 percent obtained it at a gun show. Instead, the most common source of firearms for these prisoners had been the “off the street/underground market.”
America is drowning in gun violence, but what I see clearly is a trust issue in our institutions. Even if you believe the official story of the massacre at Uvalde, Texas (whatever that is today) then you’d simultaneously have to come to the conclusion that our police are unwilling, unable, or incapable of protecting the most vulnerable at a school. This line of thought should lead to less “gun free zones” and more armed teachers.
There is no doubt that Covid lockdowns and school closures have deteriorated already fragile mental health. Gun violence (and other types of violence, and suicides, and car accidents) is increasing and I rightfully worry about my kids at school. I also worry about them in other places like when I drive the motorbike down the road with my younger daughter on the back. There is no guarantee of the next day in this life.
Reading about the school shooting at Uvalde had me thinking about the last school shooting which happened before it, in Michigan just six months ago. A lot of people didn’t hear about it, because there was no wall to wall media coverage. You’d better believe when I saw an alert about a shooting at a Michigan high school I clicked on the link immediately. I talked to my daughter about it the next morning. I am virtually positive that one went down exactly as it was portrayed.
From the Wikepedia link: “Within two to three minutes of the arrival of first responders, Crumbley was arrested unharmed by a deputy assigned as a school resource officer” Four students tragically died in this one as the shooter, a disgruntled 15 year old sophomore at the high school, took a handgun out of his backpack and opened fire as students were changing classes in the hallways. He was never able to breach a classroom door as “Oxford High School used the active shooter drill known as ALICE (Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, and Evacuate), which uses proactive strategies to evade a gunman, such as using noise as a distraction and creating distance. The teachers were also trained to use a barrier at the base of the door called Nightlock, which was installed on every door of the school in 2017 per Michigan law.[8][9]” Other students were scared of Crumbley’s odd behavior and some had avoided school that day due to gossip about a shooter. His parents were charged with failing to lock up their weapons, leaving them unguarded for their teenage son. This sad tragedy checks all the boxes of real school shootings in the USA. There are warnings and protocols in place.
What do you all think?