Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Police Officials In Uvalde, Texas, Are Still Lying About Everything

When I read the initial stories indicating police inaction in Uvalde (allowing the mass murderer to kill additional children) last Tuesday, my first thought was that this completely believable news would be buried, quickly erased from the dominant media narrative, and in a week or so, anyone claiming the police stood around harassing parents while nine- and ten-year-olds were being slaughtered inside the school would be dismissed as a "conspiracy theorist". The cops would be venerated as heroes.

I've been pleasantly surprised to see the exact opposite happen. One big reason: The attempts to fool the public and mask their cowardly actions were so pathetic and their dereliction of duty too massive to successfully cover up. (Why would anyone ever believe anything a police officer says about anything?)

We have learned that Uvalde police held a training exercise dealing with school shooters only two months ago. The training instructions were explicit: the "first priority is to move in and confront the attacker". Also: "The best hope that innocent victims have is that officers immediately move into action to isolate, distract or neutralize the threat, even if that means one officer acting alone." The guidelines state: "A first responder unwilling to place the lives of the innocent above their own safety should consider another career field."

Some some of the kids who placed 911 calls during the attack could hear the police officers' voices in the school hallway (and were baffled why the officers were not coming to save them). We now know that the police were told there were surviving children in the rooms (and some were calling 911 at that very moment) that needed to be rescued. (That's yet another lie exposed.)

Washington Post, May 28, 2022:

In all, 19 children and two teachers were killed, with another 17 people wounded . . . In the days that followed, local heartbreak bubbled into rage as Texas officials waxed on about police bravery, glossing over law enforcement missteps that took days to acknowledge.

Only now, a more reliable chronology is emerging through official statements, 911 logs, social media posts, and interviews with survivors and witnesses. . . .

New details have dispelled earlier accounts of a confrontation between the gunman and an armed school police officer outside the school, a story the authorities changed four times. First, officials said the gunman exchanged fire with the officer outside the school before going in. Later, McCraw said that there was an encounter, but no gunshots were exchanged between the two. On Thursday, officials said there had been no confrontation at all and that the gunman had simply walked in. On Friday, McCraw added that the school police officer was not on campus but rushed there after the 911 call about a man with a gun at the crash [and drove right by the heavily-armed gunman].
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