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I think the “cowardice” narrative obfuscates the fact that the stand down order form a very liberal chief was given - disguised as a bogus “barricade” delay where he can claim incompetence. You don’t need to find proof of a conspiracy - look at the end result: people are calling for the 2a to be repealed in droves over a high “child” body count The same “incompetence” argument happened in Sandy Hook, also, but that was more of an obvious stand down order.
We have a expression in my country that would fit him. The best helmsmen are ashore. Its very easy to talk behind a camera when your not there during the situation itself.
@@elitecoder955 then maybe they shouldn’t have signed up to do a job where the main objective is to “PROTECT and serve”.. do you realize as they stood in that hallway they could hear children dying??! Like being shot and KILLED. Your way of thinking is scary.. hope you’re not a cop.
@@lauramo1122 They aren't responsible for the safety of any one's child other than their own . Imagine being paid average wages and infinite disrespect from public and still being expected to put their lives on the line for people who don't even know you exist . Think of the cops as individuals and not disposable assets , if you want to ensure safety of your child and yourself buy a gun . The police protect and serve the constitution they aren't vigilantes
Exactly. I told my husband if I was an officer on that job, I would risk everything to save those kids. No jury in America is going to send an officer to prison for breaking the chief’s orders and saving those kids. If anything, when it comes to light, the chief will lose his job and the officer who stepped up would be labeled a hero.
No kidding. This would be my chosen way to die, to barge in there, with a Glock or AR or whatever I have, hopefully some basic body armor, and try to save those kids.
I'm from Texas, and what really made my blood boil, was that as the cops stood there frozen in cowardice, shots were fired, meaning kids were losing their lives.
@@driver568 I hate Trump, but let's not make this a discussion of political affiliations, but rather a discussion of humanity. School shootings have been going on for decades now. The difference is the media is actually covering them now, their agendas have changed. This isn't the fault of any one politician, this is the fault of many that have chosen their votes and their fans over the American people.
NOOOOO00000oooo! The Uvalde police officers need to SUE ALL MEDIA OUTLETS for PORTRAYING THIS FALSE NARRATIVE OVER AND OVER AGAIN! The officers followed OFFICIAL PROTOCOLS! DO SWAT TEAMS BUST INTO BANKS WHEN THEIR OUR HOSTAGES IN BANKS? NOOOOOOOO000000oooooo! Why not? Because, INNOCENT PEOPLE COULD GET HURT! THEY WAIT IT OUT! NEGOTIATE! These officers CORNERED THE GUNMAN AND HE STOPPED SHOOTING! THE FACT THAT HE WAS CORNERED, ALLOWED THE OTHER STUDENTS TO BE EVACUATED!
Their training didn't tell them explicitly to run away, but I really struggle to believe that a failure of this scale could have been the result of a well-trained group of cops who just all happened to individually be bad at their job. I know people tend to mirror each others responses in crises, but _every_ single cop there dropping the ball completely? That's systemic.
I was trained in active shooter response over 20 years ago and the protocol was to go straight for the gunman and engage because waiting costs lives. These guys are a disgrace to the badge and humanity.
In contrast to the police in Saanich British Columbia, Canada who ran towards two rifle toting bank robbers armed only with handguns to protect bystanders . Six police were shot and one badly injured. Nothing but admiration for these men. Both robbers died.
see i dont get that, these men possibly crapping in a bag for the rest of thier lives is considered honor. no my life is worth more than that. people want what they see in the movies
The only way to remedy this in the future is " fire all those who participated in the response " cowards have no business being in the police force. Hire new police officers train them properly and have experienced leader in charge of them.
There’s a guy with a channel on here who is a former Navy Seal Devgru guy(the team that killed UBL, supposedly). Called GBRS group. He said a lot of the problems in the swat units he trains can be fixed with a simple conversation. A message that says this is the standard you are expected to perform at, then correcting a few tactical/shooting mistakes, and finally exercising on the areas they need to(school, house, trailer, etc).
I'm from Texas and I personally think every single policeman, sheriff deputies and anyone who could've helped those children and didn't should be fired with loss of all benefits.
I am also from Texas, and I think every "officer" there should lose their ability to work as a police officer anywhere. There are a few that should be charged with manslaughter imo.
So nearly 400 law enforcement officers showed up to this school shooting bit none of them did anything to try and stop it? So did they all get paid overtime & double time to sat d around and do nothing?
2:03 ...or it was a staged false flag attack to terrorize Americans into disarming and accepting GUN CONTROL, SO THE CENTRAL BANKERS CAN SCREW EVERYONE EVEN MORE, WITH CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCIES. MORE FOR THEM, LESS FOR YOU, AND WHATEVER IT TAKES??? The guys are just tools, screwing themselves, their family, and you, and yours, by participating is such deception???
Even me, an untrained layman would have grabbed two rifles off these fools and ran in blasting everything and everyone in the room! ONLY WAY TO BE SURE TO KILL THE SHOOTER! Then nuke the site from orbit! THE ONLY WAY TO BE SURE!
I was a sergeant for 30 years in the police force in my town I risk my life every day to protect the citizens the job is to serve and protect the public even if that means sacrificing my own life I took a bullet to the shoulder just to protect a woman and her child years ago and looking back at these police officers and the way they handled the situation that’s disgusting completely out of line your job is to serve and protect I woke up every morning with a smile on my face to do what I did because I loved my job ! But my job wasn’t about a paycheck like these officers think it was about protecting my community no matter what ! .. rest in peace children and teachers I am very very sorry to hear this this is horrible my prayers will be with you such a shame those innocent lives were lost due to the incompetence of officers ! God bless and stay safe people ! .. I would still risk my life to this day to protect anybody before my own I live in Niagara Falls New York .. born here and will die here for the people!
First off, thank you for your service. The police etc did screw up on this one for sure. The fact is "those innocent lives were lost due to" a mentally ill person. You have to be out of your mind to do this to other people and plan the whole thing out beforehand. Too many nutheads in the world today.
@@Chris-fq4xz The things I seen over the years you couldn’t even imagine Sir but seeing how these officers handled the situation boiled my blood it’s awful and I support weapons I am an NRA member but this is out of line remember it’s not a gun that kills you it’s the person that’s using it with the intent thank you for your comment and I appreciate it stay safe sir
This SWAT officer is saying exactly what I and many other officers have been saying for weeks now. That the officers that responded to this active shooter scenario, which is America's second largest mass murder of its kind, acted with cowardice and incompetence, placing their own safety above that of children who were being murdered and bleeding out throughout the over 1 hour they stood by and did nothing.
Thanks for saying that. Just saying there was some from the cop community saying we didn’t know what we were talking about when the story first broke out. Thanks
As an ex soldier, I can tell you that I'd rather die then being one of those cops. seeing those cowards is making me sick. What the hell are you doing? KIDS are dying there! Pathetic
An ex soldier ? I don’t know of a single soldier retired or otherwise that refers to themselves as an EX ? It’s usually Army vet, navy vet, etc or in the U.K. military Veteran. You can remove the soldier from the military but never the military from the soldier
@@aileronsintowind6835 spoken like a person who never served correcting veterans on RU-vid haha. Most veterans are humble and don't brag about their service.
I don't think that I could live with myself if I failed those kids & their families so badly! The former swat officer is right, everyone is built differently & some clearly shouldn't be cops....but how is it possible that there wasn't even one cop willing to risk his life for those kids?
It's a syop..nothing happened that wasn't allowed to ..the cia is at work to get retarded sheep who think guns are the problem to vote in more infringements on our second amendment..those there r factsn
Easy all you have to do is say I'm a Texan and down there you're automatically at Walker Texas ranger. Trust me Texas is one big joke all hat no cattle
Those cops were all ATHEISTS and if any of them pretend to be Christian their churches need to excommunicate them. I say this because if you get killed risking your life to save a bunch of children that would pretty much guarantee your way into heaven. So them being that afraid makes them atheists.
you're absolutely right. a mother went in with no weapon & got her daughter & several other students out of their class while the cops were still outside. sad
@@moneyall Imagine if society didn't piss people off and offer them no "legitimate" fix for their grievances? This has nothing to do with the tools or weapons involved.
That one lady that got cuffed, then uncuffed, and bolted for the school, ran in and got her kids class out was a real hero. She gave no regard for her own life. We pay these stooges to protect and serve and they fell short that day.
Police have NO REQUIREMENT TO PROTECT AND SERVE, as the Supreme Court has ruled TWICE. We pay them to protect the property and lives of the wealthy, not everyone else.
@@hostnik777 lol the wealthy? ok let me guess, you and your "I hate law enforcement" think life is unjust... Stop being a tool. There are plenty of accounts of cops risking their lives for the less privileged. You have a big mouth why don't you become a cop and "change" the system. Instead you comment like a coward.
It takes a special amount of cowardice to have such a significant numbers advantage over a single shooter and not press when children's lives are at stake.
Angeli Gomez, the Uvalde Mom who defied orders from police and ran into the school and save not only her kids, but a classroom filled with kids, has more valor and bravery then all those officers who ran and waited. Those officers listened to children being slaughtered for over an hour! Angeli ran into the building unarmed, not knowing if she would make it out alive. It was not her job to rush in there with an armed homicidal maniac on the loose. She never took an oath to serve and protect. But she knew what was at stake, the lives of children! And she went in without hesitation. One unarmed woman...Everyone should know her name.
First they handcuffed her, then let her go when she calmed down. Then she ran and jumped the fence and went in to get her daughter. She is a hero. She led several people out of a classroom. But what people don't realize is that the police have been harassing her since it happened.
Yeah I heard about her, after that tragedy incident the cops start harassing her for saving the childrens because her action make the cops look bad to the communities, not only the cops are full of cowardice, they are despicable too😡
“They put their lives over the lives of children. They stayed safe.” This makes me so mad. Idk if anyone saw the video of the mom who ran inside and saved her son and someone else’s son. This mother showed more courage than these so called cops.
People want to blame the cops either way though. If they go in brave and shoot the wrong guy, or even if they shoot the right guy, people want the cops charged with murder. People attack the cops even when they get a criminal. There are stories in the news all the time of cops taking out bad guys with long criminal records, and people attack the cops and say there was no need to shoot him. Now police are too scared to act, a record 350 cops have been shot in the last year. Police have to ask permission of a superior to do anything these days, even a car chase, they have to ask for permission. So I really blame people, the Democrats and media for blaming the cops when they do their jobs. Its only going to get worse because people defend criminals and attack the police. Many cities cant get enough cops these days. Good cops are leaving and the city has to hire more women, and lower skilled people to do the job.
@@tubester4567 you made some valid points though I'm not so sure it explains what happened here but who knows. In NYC, I witnessed with my own eyes how cops are not engaging criminals like they used to because the overall attitude seems to be... f that, y'all want to hate and blame us, not back us, then f it. I'm going chill and just collect my paycheck.
@@djudahp Thats what I mean, why risk your life for a public that hates you. Cops have to wait for permission from a supervisor to do anything, the supervisors themselves are scared to make a mistake, so this is the result. I think this situation is more about being scared of making a mistake, than being scared of the shooter.
What makes me sick about the whole thing isn’t just them waiting in the hallway. It was them waiting in the hallway and hearing the screams and cries of those poor kids. How can you do that? All of these officers need to be relieved of duty and charged. They are an absolute disgrace.
Unfortunately the Supreme Court has ruled that law enforcement has no duty or responsibility to protect anyone. They are given privileges and power to do what they need to do, but they are not obligated to do anything. And the case that resulted in that decision involved the death of children that everyone agreed could have been prevented but the police chose not to get involved.
@@hewhohasnoidentity4377 The SCOTUS decision is absolutely irrelevant here, if you are unwilling to try and help a child even if that puts you in danger you have no god damn right to wear a badge, PERIOD. I get it, there is no law that states they have to protect anyone and that being absolutely retarded as that is (why have a police if that's the case?), but there is a level of humanity these people need to rise to, lets not pretend these are unarmed civilians and being struck in fear as a result, these are police officer with vests, and guns, WAY more guns than the assailant had. For all of them to be afraid, or worse to let that crap happen due to orders from the police chief is just wrong on so many levels.
@@user-lj2gx2bh8p that's just a phrase they like to repeat over and over to win people's affection. Just like how they were praising the officers from the very beginning, until they leaked actual footage of officers running and stumbling away.
This retired SWAT officer is exactly right! As a retired police officer myself, you form a team once you arrive on scene and make entry to save lives. That team might just consist of just you, but that is what we signed up to do, Protect & Serve! Ever since the Columbine High School Shooting on April 20, 1999, lessons were learned then, over 20 years ago!!! So I am shocked and sicken by the officers lack of urgency to find the shooter and stop his actions!! That Chief should be fired & depending on Texas law, either charged or the victims should file a civil law suit against him!
Complete cowardice. The fact that other cops and people defend them is what truly is disgusting. This is extactly why they need to remove qualified immunity from them. They failed save those lives and prevented parents from going in. The names of all those cops need to be released and prosecuted for dereliction of duty
You have no idea how a command structure works. It is like saying you want the whole school arrested because the lunch lady messed up. Would you like, as the janitor, to be arrested because of some decisions someone else made? You were derelict in your duty which is to obey the orders of your superiors...? How can you prove that? You seem like a great legal mind.
@@elebeu I think you should be charged since you KNOW police are evil but you do nothing to stop them, I want you arrested for dereliction of civic duty since that will hold up just as well as the nonsense you 80iqs are propagating. Imagine being a cop, following orders, then getting arrested by a mob of morons like you. Do you understand that you have a literal legal DUTY to obey orders as a cop? I hope you never serve on a jury, you have a brain which does not operate rationally. Imagine everything that would go wrong in the fog of situations like this if everyone habitually goes rogue so idiots like you don't charge them. Only the commander of any force is responsible for its actions when in direct oversight, if you ever served anything but yourself you'd know that.
@@elebeu I don't think you can charge them. Nothing in their training could have actually successfully prepared them for this situation. It might have attempted to but the only way to learn to deal with these types of situation is experience otherwise you freak out. They're human and they are in shock. They didn't do their job well but it's only because of how disgusting the killer was
@@trayyoutube only because you cannot fathom that many cowardly cops. You assume they are good guys. It would be impossible for an "inside job" to stop all those cops from doing their jobs if they actually wanted to. Cops are NOT here to protect you.
@@trayyoutube If so, it's to further the agenda on gun control. Mark my words, it will be gutless cops like this "following orders" who will be the ones breaking down doors to demand law-abiding citizens to hand their guns over.
When the Twin Towers were burning, you didn't see fire fighters hesitate to go up and do their job. Even knowing how dangerous the situation was, its what you signed up for. Uvalde police were more concerned for their own safety instead of the children. Calling them cowards would be putting it politely.
Or even Police for that matter there were policemen going in and saving people that day too those men would have rather died then waiting back guarding the Hand sanitizer...
EMS ran into those towers as well. 8 didn't make it out. 22 killed themselves within the next year after 9/11. When you're in uniform your safety doesn't always come first.
I was not there - I was on the CPD for 32 years and now (thank you God) retired. If you wear a badge there are things our are obligated to do and no excuses. For the children and their parents - my prayers.
my 28+ years in law enforcement reiterates that the swat officer is absolutely correct and he brings up another interesting point and that is: we're all built differently.... some got it and some don't
EXACTLY! As as retired (female) OIF/OEF Marine, the absolute LAST thing ANY organization (military OR law enforcement) should do is LOWER THE STANDARD. I hate to be blunt, but being "inclusive" gets people killed. RAH.
It's just shocking that so many on the scene were the don'ts. As I recall there were some questioning why they weren't going in so I guess they were trying to get it done but for whatever reason they let themselves be overruled. This wasn't a bank, the suspect had no reason to take hostages, he went to an elementary school and started shooting, there's nothing to negotiate but his death. And yet they stood around for an hour running... what imaginary scenario in their head? "Let the hostage negotiator talk to him, so that he..." what, releases one child while asking for a car to drive to Mexico? Even taking them at their worthless words their logic makes no sense.
What a mess. Acting tough when they stop people on the streets and in traffic, but when it comes to showing balls, they get scared and only think about themselves. This is really outrageous!
@Alicia....Lord Jesus have mercy... THAT PART!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏THEY ALL STANDING AROUND LOOKING CRAZY FR😳 I'm so glad someone made this comment bc that's exactly what they do when they pull people over, being all tough and bad! Where in the h÷!! were their toughness and badasses when it was actually needed🤷♀️all those babies and 2 teachers that were taken away from their families😔how in the world can they even look at themselves in the mirror?🤦♀️😱
@@Ceqsy have you been to uvalde cause i lived there half my life and i could tell you all the cops in that town are like that now the world can see how tough these cowards are when it comes to do their job
And also a reason to not blindly “back the blue” like the extreme right seems to do. Some of them are cowards and others are even murderers. Stay armed my friends.
This former officer has hit the nail on the head 100%. Every single one of those officers at the scene who spent 1+ hours waiting needs to exit the profession, now. None of them have any place in law enforcement ever again. I'm not in law enforcement, but I know for sure what I would have done in the first three minutes of showing up on that scene. I've been in life and death situations before and have never hesitated. Uvalde is a travesty of law enforcement ineptitude.
I still can't believe this has happened. They were selfish, and cowardly. An entire team of them failed those children and these teachers. They need to be fired.
I mean nothing bad with this but would you have charged in despite not being ordered by the commander and possibly having been shot in the head by an assualt rifle the moment you showed yourself? It just bugs me that people sit in judgement over people who were clearly in over their heads. They're not machines they're people with families and faced with the real posibility of never seeing them again. I can understand that and I probably would have frozen up too. They're not military. The team tasked with this particular action should probably be fired and the one commanding definitely should but show a little empathy. They're not cowards they're just human. I know it's not popular to side with people who failed to save children but yeah I feel like people expect too much of them. The swat team sure, they're hired specifically to deal with dangerous situations and I don't understand why they didn't act there but the rest are just cops, they cite tickets most of the time and most never actually have to use their gun (at least one would hope so). I feel like I have to clarify this. Of course I think something went horribly wrong but I think people are putting way too much focus on the regular police officers. If half the focus went to actually fixing the core problem maybe there could be a chance for something meaningfull to actually be done to combat it such that regular cops don't have to be expected to act like military.
@@mugogrog The regular police were outfitted and trained better than this 18 year old. There is literally no excuse for this incompetence here and I truly don’t understand why there are people like you still trying to defend this LMAO. Former and current leo all over the country agree that these officers are a disgrace but you’re still giving botd. Do everyone a favor and never become a cop.
@@mugogrog There could be many reasonable explanations as to 'why' it happened the way it did - lack of training, not experienced in this situation, etc. But 'that' it happened should still be considered unacceptable under any circumstance. It's unfortunate for all involved: the children and their families, the officers who likely now live with massive guilt and their families, and the whole community whose way of life is shaken. There is no good side to it, at all. But if as a society we don't want it to happen again, then we have to start with pointing out what went wrong, including poor leadership, poor training, maybe poor staffing and recruiting, etc.
“To serve and protect” “OURSELVES” “To safe guard lives and property” “OUR LIVES AND PROPERTY” Loose the badges and get out the way. If your too scared to act just because someone has a loaded gun, you are in the wrong career. Your life will be on the line, you signed up for it. Plenty of other people would have risked their lives to save those children and teachers, IN A HURRYYYYY!!! Like the Mother who pushed pass the officers outside and entered the building, got her children and guided a classroom(s) full of children, out to safety. She went into the unknown, risking lives. She wasn’t trained and did more then what the people of Uvalde pay the responders to do and where they put their trust. Understand that those children and teachers in the class room must have been absolutely terrified, TERRIFIED, PANICKED, how could they let this MONSTER continue.
Imagine what could have been done by civilian bystanders if all those "heroes" weren't there in the way. These posers don't need to be fired, they need to be prosecuted for dereliction of duty.
That Mom was a badass, never mess with a momma bear or her cubs, you probably won't live to regret it. On a side note, have you ever heard of Grammarly? It corrects spelling, word forms, and punctuation and is a free add-on to chrome and other browsers and makes our comments more readable, and keeps the grammar nazis off our comments. I'm asking as a fellow frequent misspeller lol, not trying to be a grammar nazi, just help out.
@@wavydave People don't care, Tom. Spelling is built in to RU-vid. When you misspell a word, RU-vid underlines the word in red, and if you highlight the word and right click on it, a drop-down list opens with suggestions. People just don't care enough to use it. It doesn't matter to them, because they don't have enough self respect to care. And if you point it out to them, their response is to get insulted. That goes to immaturity. Most people never mature psychologically past adolescence. There's an old saying, "A wise man doesn't need your advice, and a fool doesn't want it.". How many times have you seen national TV commercials with lines something like, “This product saved my family and I a lot of money.”. Nobody from the actor, to the director, to the production company, to the advertising company, to the product manufacturer cares. (Personally, I usually write out my comments in a word processor, edit them, and then copy and paste them into RU-vid.)
@@lilqtshowie i disagree, Its not quantity but QUALITY that we need. We need to improve the training regimen and/or lengthen it so we can start having some tougher cops. I mean have you seen the guys that swatted the place? Most of them looked like they were pretty out of shape and I remember seeing an officer who almost was obese in a different clip. Not just that but, we need to change the mindsets through this training so they will do their job. While at it, I feel like cops that actually respond in times like this should get an award or some extra pay to motivate them.
All Americans should be beyond outraged. These men stood by while kids where being killed. Never thought I would ever in my life see this from all law enforcement
We will never be grateful enough for the 19 kindergartdeners and 2 teachers who lost their lives on the line of duty while protecting our precious police officers.
2:03 ...or it was a staged false flag attack to terrorize Americans into disarming and accepting GUN CONTROL, SO THE CENTRAL BANKERS CAN SCREW EVERYONE EVEN MORE, WITH CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCIES. MORE FOR THEM, LESS FOR YOU, AND WHATEVER IT TAKES??? The guys are just tools, screwing themselves, their family, and you, and yours, by participating is such deception???
It was a false flag shooting event, designed to terrorize Americans into disarming themselves, so that they can be screwed even more than they are now by inflation, say with the imposition of a Central Bank Digital Currency? Yeah, just a joke out of it, so no one understands what is going on?
The punisher screen saver that the one officer had is laughable. This dude thinks he's so extremely badass, yet he wouldn't save elementary school children from a gunman.
@@kevinjohnson3521 even worse.. his wife was inside ..and he stayed there...without any action or reaction . He is a bigger coward imo if that's the case .
@@jlbueno0611 they keep saying he was trying to go in and they had to detain him but not once on the video does he even bother going down the hallway. Just stands there
This man have spoken the truth in his own perspective with empathy and honesty. Just no words to justify any reasoning whatsoever on why those police broke their own sworn duty.
2:03 ...or it was a staged false flag attack to terrorize Americans into disarming and accepting GUN CONTROL, SO THE CENTRAL BANKERS CAN SCREW EVERYONE EVEN MORE, WITH CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCIES. MORE FOR THEM, LESS FOR YOU, AND WHATEVER IT TAKES??? The guys are just tools, screwing themselves, their family, and you, and yours, by participating is such deception???
The 350+ Cops were waiting for the gunman to run out of ammo. It the new union bylaws for cowards. Not one would have made the beach at Normandy, they would have waited for the Germans to run out of ammo.
No they didn’t. In case that you didn’t know the supreme court as ruled that your safety it’s not an officer’s duty. Your also forgetting OFFICERS SAFETY IS FIRST.
@@ernestocarrillo7 Regardless of being an officer any real man with normal Testosterone levels would not just stand there with kids dying. They are soft
notice how the cops originally tried to divert attention away from themselves by saying the shooter got in through an open backdoor propped open by a teacher
A Outdoor School Door won't stop a Willfull Crazy Shooter. You could shoot Windows to gain Entry or enter by shooting any Door Windows and then turn the Knob or push the Door
Just walk into any super market and look at all the bumbling zombies totally unaware of their surroundings. These people will believe and do anything as long as act “official” lmao Side note: anyone notice road rage on the rise?
I've cleared a few rooms (100's) overseas, several with armed assailants. We did this in immediate proximity to civilians and on several occasions we rescued people (and children) with multiple gunshot wounds. Decisive action, immediate medical attention, and getting the injured to a hospital quickly resulted in 0 preventable deaths. We were tested the very first day we hit sector. If we can do it, with 0 experience (my entire team went from green to combat veteran in one day), vs people with RPG's, grenades and belt-fed weapons, surely a few 100 law officers can take down one guy with an AR-15...
That cowardly officer that was using hand sanitizer instead of his weapon will never be able to wipe the blood of those innocent children off of his hands.
I’m willing to bet he sleeps like a baby at night.He probably has zero guilt over this.Because the police culture and mentality breeds a sociopathic mind state.
He didn't look like a police officer. He looked more like volunteer type person. But if you look he was just on his phone. Then later he was looking at what the officers had and was just helping himself to what was there and putting it in his back pocket. Loser
It's scary to face death but when you hear children screaming that usually goes away unless you literally don't care in your heart too bad real men were not the first to arrive
@@lettherebelight620 No, suspect was shooting still when they first entered that hallway. I'm sure they even heard it as they made their way into that hallway from another part of the school. So, if he's "barricaded by himself" like the chief kept saying, then who's he shooting at -- no one, the chalkboard, empty desks? Chief was a coward and was making up every excuse (rifles, shields, SWAT, then keys to a classroom that isn't locked) not to engage. Pure cowardice.
@@lettherebelight620 , that's not a hostage situation. That's an active shooter/mass casualty situation. Without a doubt, kids bled out and died, that could have been saved if they had nutted up and made entry. Yeah, some officers might have been shot, and some might have died, but the six officers we can see in that video, would have won that fight in the end if they had done that.
I was trained to go in before SWAT gets there, you are the First line of Defense. I knew right away these guys should have went in. I'm retired now, but I know someone should have had the guts to save those children's lives !
@@Chris-fq4xz You're right. There is a clear distinction between words and action, absolutely. However, I based my comment upon this gentleman's career and experience in situations akin to that which he was speaking.
“Their training didn’t tell them to run away” this is probably the difference between being a hero or a zero. Did you run into the fire or away from it? No one knows what they’ll do before the crisis, but you’ll always be labeled after by what you chose to do or not do.
Training and experience mitigates the risk of being shot or worse. Outfitted with protective gear and arms helps mitigate that risk even more. The children had none of that.
A side note, but in first aid training you're told to avoid going into burning houses and to just call the firefighters (unless you know where someone is and they aren't too far away). Too big of a risk for yourself- it's dark, but it's better to not rush in and only have one death than to rush in and have two. Running away from a fire does not make you a coward.
@@katra5673 well that's the point. you don't want a citizen or paramedic running into a burning building, that's the firefighters job. you don't want a citizen or paramedic running into a school with a shooter inside, that's the police officers job... no one should be expected to be brave in those moments unless you are getting paid to do that job when you chose to do that job.
2:03 ...or it was a staged false flag attack to terrorize Americans into disarming and accepting GUN CONTROL, SO THE CENTRAL BANKERS CAN SCREW EVERYONE EVEN MORE, WITH CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCIES. MORE FOR THEM, LESS FOR YOU, AND WHATEVER IT TAKES??? The guys are just tools, screwing themselves, their family, and you, and yours, by participating is such deception???
You cannot imply that. Those were just words. For all we know he might have waited around in the hallway during the shooting just like those cops. Despite his police training.
@@MusicEmail Pardon me, while I get some hand sanitizer during this false flag shooting event to terrorize Americans into disarmament and then into Central Bank Digital Currencies. BECAUSE THE REAL DANGER ARE THE KIDDIE COOTIES ALL OVER THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL???
When a unarmed mother runs in and saves a whole classroom full of children including her own while police do nothing is just unfathomable in my eyes. She's the only hero in this story. She deserves the Carnegie metal. And biden should give it to personally for the whole world to see. She's got more courage than a hundred men.
Perfectly depicted, they choose themselves over others. So much for to protect and serve. They should be released. It is a shame that a parent was able to get in there and provided rescue efforts.
this is not race baiting, but let's be honest... most of the children killed were of Mexican descent... this is TX... a state famous for the racism and bigotry of most of the white populace... TX Rangers used to love to lynch Mexicans. I bet most of the police force was white. they simply did not want to risk their lives for brown Americans.
Yes.. because police officers are paid like hero's. What a ridiculous remark.. police have been vilified to death, have average wages, have to make split second decisions that could potentially ruin their lives and their families as well if they make a mistake. You probably never been in such a situation and here you are judging others harshly without any experience.
@@magacop5180 You misread what they typed. You're laughing at yourself. Oof. Police should be all volunteer. They shouldn't be paid. They haven't earned any pay.
"What about my family?" Well you gave up that up when you vowed to defend the public against all threats. They just choose when to help. They aren't made to help. And that's the issue.
The heartbreaking thing about that video is you could hear the children SCREAMING and CRYING (which was muted for news broadcasts), which means the police just stood back HEARING those cries...
I'm on swat officers side..But quick question...If he was there and his boss said if you go in there against my orders you'll be fired and lose everything you worked for..What do you think he woulda done? That's how them people play...They threaten lively hood if you don't listen...Ugggghhh this is terrible situation man
@@jaypie8 I'm sure if he would have gotten in there and killed the shooter and saved more children people probably would be upset if he was fired that would be really bad publicity for the Police force would it not?
@@jaypie8 You either lose your job there and engage and put down the shooter and get 1,000 other job offers all over the country. Or you sit there and work for a POS department who doesn’t value the lives of children. The job shouldn’t even be up for debate if kids are dying in a classroom.
@@jaypie8 Exactly. We all want everyone to storm in there immediately & get the teachers & kids to safety before they bleed out while putting the shooter out of commission in the process but there's a chain of command that HAS to be followed or we're disciplined.
it looked like they were afraid to do their jobs which cost those children and teachers their lives. I wonder if any of those officers are feeling any type of guilt for failing at their job..
Every cop in America should be asking themselves today if they would be willing to storm into a school to save children, even if it means dying in the process. If they can't say yes - resign immediately.
@@eprimchad2576 right what gets me is that I’d imagine just random ppl on the street who are armed being 100x more viligant, quick, courageous. Anyone in their right mind would put a school full of children first
There was this huge shootout in Los Angeles with 2 heavily armed bank robbers, the entire LAPD force was deployed but their issue was that they were severely under equipped as opposed to the bank robbers who were wearing higher grade armor than anything the LAPD had, as well has several automatic firearms with thousands of rounds of ammunition. In this day and age, we can clearly see most police forces are just as heavily armed, more-so defensively and yet, a child with a single firearm caused the uvalde force to piss their pants.
Yeah and in that situation, the cops went to a gun shop and armed themselves then went back and took out the two shooters - despite being shot and injured in the process. They actually did their jobs. These Uvalde punishers acted out their sick political ideology to its natural conclusion: they only cared about and secured their own lives.
Jared Reston is one tough SOB. He took a .45 caliber round in the mouth & only thought he had been punched. I’m glad to see he’s made it to retirement & is passing along his knowledge & tenacity to other cops
Abner fired 12 shots in total, with 7 shots striking Reston. Reston was hit in the jaw, elbow, hip, thigh, and three rounds in the chest to his body armor. Damn!!
The officers present that day who did not engage the shooter became a disgrace not only to all law enforcement agencies throughout the country but also to the human race. Sad and tragic that precious lives were lost.
It’s just so sad to think these were little children… on their last day of school… and children are filled with hope so you know they must have been hoping the cops would come right away like they should but they didn’t… they just waited. Those children were betrayed and left for dead. Those cops stood there listening to them getting slaughtered. They needed DNA to identify the bodies so just imagine that… I hope they can’t sleep at night. those officers names should be made public
I cannot disagree with you, but I am sure they cannot sleep at night, I am sure they are more traumatised by their inaction than they would have been if they had tried and been shot. I'm surprised there have not been suicides yet, and for that reason I do not believe their names should be released, but they should all be fired. We are told police deserve to be given the benefit of doubt, qualified immunity, respect because they are the ones who run toward danger to save others, these officers have been tested and shown that is not who they are, so they must find more jobs they are capable of doing.
@@mikloridden8276 - I hope you are wrong, (about the sleep) the fact that they are sick enough to harass the people they failed shows they lack morality and charector as well as showing once again they lack any trace of courage, but it also shows a knowledge of guilt.
Thanks for this interview. Those same cowardly public servants probably intimidate every law abiding citizen but fear for their safety when they are evenly matched with a real threat. They need to be fired, they’ve proven they’re not cut out for real police work. Anyone can stop a driver, harass them and issue a citation but not everyone can place their own lives on the line to “fight crime.”
I'd rather celebrate an officer's sacrifice than mourn a child. Kids didn't sign up to die. Officers signed up to sacrifice their lives for the public.
Cops do not become cops to sacrifice there life for anyone. Almost no one in this world accepts a job to sacrifice there life for someone else. There are few in this world that would sacrifice there life for a stranger.
Sacrifice their life for the public is part of "Serve and Protect"... Otherwise don't be a police officer... Period.. ... Stop kissing this cowards boots....
@@tarico4436 well we all know she meant reassured. She still did a great job asking questions and basically calling out the Uvalde police for their cowardice. Many reporters themselves were too cowardly to do that.
I was a SWAT team member, team leader, then Sgt as well as trainer for 18 years, I was terribly disappointed and angered by the lack of urgency in anyone while children were being slain at will.
As a combat veteran when we cleared homes I was point man I said to my guys being overseas I will go first I’m 6’5 I can take more of the force then y’all take them out what I did on three combat tours these cops were scared point blank period no one pointed a gun to my head sign up to be a combat engineer I knew I be clearing homes and clearing roads for land mines possible ied so when you have that training your suppose to go as what your train on being overseas we wanted to complete the mission we all know the fear but it was our job to do these 10 years of military service man I would just went in with no gear and just my pistol to save those kids
@@draneym2003 no I’m not plus I comment what he posted not you I realize not everyone is built to serve and put they life for others as combat soldiers like myself don’t do for a thank you none needed I get that from my family and my daughter I’m proud that I served for my country and for you to be aggressive back without knowing my thought process why I comment is crazy when it’s about the failed mission at hand for those children sir is sad do you see your thought process of not knowing where our country now making an assumption of not knowing I posted on Troy S comment and not James Taylor comment smh 🤦🏿♂️ where we at today
This is so beyond heartbreaking! My heart breaks for those kids who were hoping and pleading for help. The people who were suppose to help them, failed miserably that day!
A mother broke her way in when police actively tried to hold her back or arrest her. She went in regardless and rescued her children. The one police officer saying if my kid was in there I would definitely go in there.😢 She should be charged with manslaughter along with the rest of them.
I'm a retired Firefighter/EMT and even though fighting fires is different than police work but firefighters like police, run into the fire while others are running out. I'm appalled at the actions of law enforcement on this day. Police are supposed to be running in to save lives. In this case, the children in this school. Regardless of death or serious injury to oneself, this is what we do. Putting out fires, or putting a killer in a coffin. Someone should have ran into that school to snuff out that fire!
Difference is you yourself could kill a dozen kids in the next room over putting out this kind of fire. attacks on buildings with civilians/hostages need meticulous planning or it’s pretty much guaranteed some of the total civilian casualties will be killed by police/military. People would be mad if police rushed in and killed him immediately when they find out kids died by police, even if the total casualties were lower.
@@Aron-ru5zk Yea they would hang them cops out to dry if they had shot some kids. This way they keep their jobs and lives. I don’t blame them for self preserving. These citizens do not care about you. They will protest at your doorstep and demand you badge and life if you even look at them wrong.
@@magacop5180 Stfu. You're a coward as much as these cops. It very clearly was not a hostage situation. He was executing them. And the cops stood by and ALLOWED it to happen. They all deserve life in prison over this. Everyone of them. It was time to act and they were too scared.
@@Aron-ru5zk The problem is, kids are literally crying and calling for help while this was happening and the police can clearly them and they're still not doing anything. Waiting for a meticulous plan while children are literally dying when you could've done something is complete cowardice for me. Btw the leaked video is said to have muted the cries of children as it was really distburbing.
You have to be a real POS IMO to put your adult life over a child’s life! Kids are so helpless and defenseless and they don’t have the understanding of what was happening to them. It breaks my heart to think about what those kids went through! And those kids who were still alive & called 911 (doing what they were taught to do ‘when in trouble call 911’) waiting for the adults to come help them. It’s heart wrenching! How can those LEO’s live with themselves knowing their big grown adult butts let little kids slowly die? Cowards all of them!
People like you seriously need to stop putting children's lives in front of everyone else's lives EVERY SINGLE LIVE IS IMPORTANT GET THAT THROUGH YOUR 1 INCH BRAIN IDIOT
Amen many great lives were lost kids that had big dreams and aspirations and these heartless cowards acted like dogs with their tails between there legs! If it was my child's school I would have been down there and in that school they would have had to kill me to keep me back!
At least a couple of the police were having a great time, considering they were going for fist bumps. The amount of effort that is going to go into protecting these officers, their names, their ability to continue working as police officers, is going to be thousands of times greater than the effort put into saving children and doing their job.
In this day I can see why they hesistated. The time of Hero cops has been dead for awhile. YOU PEOPLE keep chasing off all the aggressive cops who loved the job. Now you are stuck with Bums, and hesitant Rookies.
And if they DID rush in there and accidentally shoot a child, all of you would be calling for his head. Or if he shot the gunman in the back. There is simply no satisfying you people.
They took an oath to the constitution and the Supreme Court, the highest arbiter in the country told us all way back in 1981 that the police don't have a duty or responsibility to protect anyone but themselves in a threat scenario. This cowardice is institutional and its backed by the Supreme Court...
99.9% of the time, a cop will put his safety over that of any individual, including children. The only time they feel safe, is when they are bullying the weak.
I retired from law enforcement and we were taught in active shooter training that the first officer on the scene was to engage the shooter and do not wait for back up, you engage the shooter and take him out to save lives. The quicker the officer neutralizes the shooter, the more lives you save, but these officers were cowards and that is the truth and 21 lives were lost due to their cowardice.
Then you should know what a active shooter DRILL looks like, right? Or are you just covering for your buddies in law enforcement? Would you stand around for an hour and listen to kids scream as they get murdered? Would you be putting on hand sanitizer? That doesn't happen if the event is real. It was a multi-jurisdictional DRILL. The media also plays a role in these drills, but if you're really a cop, then you already know that.
Criminal charges must be filed against whoever was in charge, as well as those other officers who failed to follow their active shooter training protocols.
This officer is 100% correct. Retired LEO here and we are trained during active shooter to go in and take out the threat. It doesn’t matter that he stopped firing, injured children were in the rooms. “Barricaded subject” is not what this situation ever turned into.
@@B-ch6uk the Chief I think stated that he was barricaded in after he arrived and wasn’t firing. Something to that Doesn’t matter if he did stop or not because injured children needed medical attention.
@@AnalysisofaCrimewithCD agree whether or not he stopped firing for a period of time didn't negate that this was an active shooter situation and as you said, kids were bleeding out. They will say snd do anything to escape culpability even harrassing/stalking the mother who went in to save her children. They don't want her making them look bad. They should lose more than their jobs and be arrested imo. Dereliction of duty for one. Wrongful death suits should be and probably are being filed as well. I hope they are made to pay big.
Active LEO here. In the academy we were told on a scale from most important to least, it's innocent civilians, us then the shooter. Therfore you put yourself before the innocent civilians, to take out the shooter. There is no waiting, you stop the threat as soon as possible, that is the number one goal before anything else. If you weren't willing to do that, you were asked to walk out of the classroom and resign.
Jared Reston is a LEGEND. This guy got shot like 5 times to the face, chest, and leg during a foot pursuit and still ended the bad guy. Jared knows what's he's talking about and he trains others to do better.
2:03 ...or it was a staged false flag attack to terrorize Americans into disarming and accepting GUN CONTROL, SO THE CENTRAL BANKERS CAN SCREW EVERYONE EVEN MORE, WITH CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCIES. MORE FOR THEM, LESS FOR YOU, AND WHATEVER IT TAKES??? The guys are just tools, screwing themselves, their family, and you, and yours, by participating is such deception???
The Texas Assembly investigation just came out this Sunday afternoon citing “multiple failures” by local, state and school agencies about this school mass casualty shooting at Uvalde, TX. Within that 77 minutes that police waited out the situation before a Border Patrol tactical unit went in and took out the gunman (this could have been done earlier, when at least 2 dozen police were at the scene within 10-15 minutes of the incident); the report said a total of 400 law enforcement responded to the scene most with bullet proof vests,helmets, ballistic shields and automatic assault weapons-yet with all that firepower, training and experience-their inaction during that 77 minutes wait meant wounded victims may have bled to death. So far, there’s been no accountability, no firings, no resignations but plenty of finger pointing and the “blue code of silence”.
@@Clouds4Cheap yes, they looked away when he got the gun, and they looked away when he used it. and now they're harassing anyone that points it out. almost like this was planned right before a gun ban attempt or something.
We _know_ many bled to death, slowly. Some died _after their killer did,_ as his few surviving victims died en route _to the hospital,_ such as the *teacher* whose cop husband was disarmed, handcuffed, and *dragged away* by *his own fellow officers* when he tried to lead them in. He's the cop with the Punisher phone, by the way; he was trying to get messages to his wife *and their daughter,* who was also inside that classroom.
I hope those cowards aka “cops” are charged and found guilty of manslaughter at minimum for assisting the shooter. Based on their actions I don’t think a logical person can see it any other way. Their actions aided the murder of innocent kids. Absolutely disgusted with this as a veteran and father of young children.
When these guys were faced with a life threatening situation they ran for cover- they let little children die. They all need to immediately resign, because there were unarmed mothers and fathers who were willing to go in and save the children and they were put in handcuffs. The cowardice is disgusting.
This needs 2b investigated asap, and those officers who failed in their lawful duty to protect and serve need 2b fired!!!!! I'm a retired UK officer ,as u know we r unarmed and many a time I dealt with scum bags with knives and not did think of my own safety but taking the scum bag down as quick as I could !!! Sorry for your loss!!!
