Prosecute the Uvalde Police
As I’m sure most of you have heard by now, there was yet another mass shooting at a school this Tuesday, May 24th. The 18-year old gunman drove to an Elementary school in his town of Uvalde, Texas and opened fire, killing 19 children and 2 adults (as of the time this article is being written). There is something very misleading about many of the headlines about this tragedy — over and over again, the news calls this massacre the work of a “lone” shooter.
But, the shooter wasn’t alone. He had help.
The gunman encountered 2 police officers and a security guard outside the school as he made his way inside brandishing his recently purchased AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. He shot and injured the 2 officers.
And then the police watched him enter the Elementary school where he immediately began shooting.
The 2 officers he’d encountered while trying to enter the school did not shoot him. They were armed. They were trained. They were sworn to serve and protect. They didn’t even try to take him down. The shooter sustained not one injury while entering the school.
This began the close-to-an-hour long occupation of the school by the gunman. During this hour, he would murder 19 children, all in second to fourth grade, and two teachers. All while the heavily armed police department of Uvalde stood outside the school listening to the gunshots.
The police not only stood outside the school afraid for their own safety while the massacre was taking place, but they actually physically stopped parents gathered at the scene from charging in to save their children.
Only when the Texas Border Patrol showed up on the scene was the school finally breached and the gunman stopped.
“Texas’s director of the department of public safety said: ‘Obviously, this is situation we failed in the sense that we didn’t prevent this mass attack’…
He added: ‘But I can tell you those officers that arrived on the scene and put their lives in danger — they saved other kids. They kept him pinned down’”.
What does he mean by “they kept him pinned down”, you might be asking? He means they kept the gunman contained inside the school. The gunman barricaded himself inside one classroom and locked the door. The officers never entered the school and this barricading inside the classroom was done entirely by the gunman, not the police.
All 19 of the children murdered were murdered in that classroom. While the Uvalde police twiddled their thumbs right outside. The only force they used towards anyone that day was towards the parents outside the school who wanted to go in.
The police wandered around the school waiting for Border Control or the FBI to show up while they physically prevented people from entering to try to stop the shooting. During this time, children of the parents gathered were shot and killed.
The gunman wasn’t alone in creating this massacre. The Uvalde police were the best ally he could possibly have hoped for.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has praised the police response in Uvalde.
These police officers should be fired immediately. They’re nothing but cowards. What’s more, they should all face prosecution for this.
The responding Uvalde police officers not only were too cowardly to actually do their job, they PREVENTED others from going in and trying to stop the shooting. Every officer there has blood on their hands. And most of this blood was spilled by 8–10 year old children.
Don’t let them get away with this. They must be held accountable. They are complicit in a mass murder. They belong in prison.
Prosecute the responding Uvalde police officers who held parents back and allowed these children to be murdered.
