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A few anomalies regarding the school shooting.

The shooter was teased for being poor. He was driving a $70,000,00 pickup and had a couple of very expensive rifles as well as wearing body armor. He shot his grandmother over an unpaid phone bill, drove away, got his truck stuck and started shooting at a funeral home. After 12 minutes of shooting at the funeral home he crossed the street and entered the school through an open door. He then barricaded himself in a room where he killed the kids and teachers. The cops gathered outside and did not try to enter the school because they said they didn't have a ballistic shield. Many parents gathered and urged the police to act. Federal marshals detained several parents. Other parents broke into the school and brought out their children. After an hour or so some Border Guards arrived, stormed the school and killed the shooter. The border guard who entered the room and killed the shooter was grazed by a bullet from the shooter. The bullet went through the border agent's baseball cap and opened a wound in the agent's scalp.

A few questions:
1) How did the shooter afford the truck, rifles and body armor if he couldn't pay his phone bill?
2) Where were the police when he was shooting at the funeral home?
3) Why were the doors of the school still open when there were shots being fired across the street from the school?
4) Why didn't the police do anything?
5) Why were there federal marshals there?
6) Why were the police and federal marshals arresting parents?
7) Why were the border agents the ones to enter the building?
8) If lack of protection kept the cops out why did the border guards go in without adequate protection?
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Heartlander · 80-89, M
The border guards also waited for 35 minutes before breaching the door to the room. Prior to that the local police and deputies had contained him. So there was likely extreme risk for a worse outcome without the right equipment and weaponry.

I believe I read someplace that a rock was used to prop the door open, so probably it was common practice for staff to use that door to run out to their car to smoke or fetch a cell phone, or whatever, and get back in.

Yea, lots of unknowns.
@Heartlander
The only equipment missing from the scene was BRAVERY..
The cops on the scene were COWARDS..
19 against 1??
It took ONE brave man to end it.. border patrol refused to wait any longer..
All the officers who waited outside should be charged with murder.
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@Onestarlitnight One other aspect was the border guards disobeyed orders and went in. The idiot in charge delayed their entrance by about 20 minutes.
AbbySvenz · F
Have you been in a Texas classroom in late May/early June? 🥵🥵🥵 @Heartlander
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@AbbySvenz have you ever gone through a propped open door when you hear gunshots outside? I suspect my first instinct would be to close the door then find my phone.
Heartlander · 80-89, M
@AbbySvenz No, but we have a good friend who is a retired teacher from a school district near Uvalde. I'm anxious to hear her assessment. Otherwise I've been to schools in predominantly Hispanic communities elsewhere. I'm pretty comfortable in that part of Texas, and with the people there, and I think I can visualize the setting.
Heartlander · 80-89, M
@hippyjoe1955 A better question about that door is why wasn't there an alarm to alert security or administration when it was opened. Such doors in nursing homes, hotels, retail stores, theaters, etc. have alarms that alert security or the front desk.

Based on my awareness of human nature, that door may have been routinely and possibly semi-permanently propped open to aid circulation or serve as a dependable and convenient out-in for staff to run out to their cars without having to go through the front door. That they had a rock to prop the door suggests that this wasn't the first time. If that door was routinely propped open it's understandable how the teacher reentered and didn't think about closing and locking it.

People don't follow emergency protocols to the T when real emergencies happen. They may do so during drills, but not during a real emergency. With school shootings, I don't think there has ever been one where the teachers, staff and police did exactly what they were supposed to do. There's a factor called "human reliability" that seems to have been left out of the planning phase. The assumption that people will do what they are supposed to do in an emergency, or even non-emergencies. They don't. The 1st consideration for preventing this from happening again, and again is to assume that everyone will not do what they are supposed to do, and possibly no one will.
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@Heartlander Yeah there is gun fire in the parking lot so you leave the door open.... Nice try but still no sale. If you have any training at all the first thing you do is secure your location. Leaving doors open???? Yeah no.
Heartlander · 80-89, M
@hippyjoe1955

Yes the training helps, and ..

Fire fighters who respond to actual fires every day probably have a pretty good reliability in the department, but the reliability goes down from there. When down to the unlikely to ever happen type incidents, human reliability drops to near zero. And that factor seems to have been left out of the planning. The security of that door should have been fool-proof. Cameras, alarms, etc. The fence around the school was nowhere near tall enough. There are also dozens of unknowns: like were there cameras in the class rooms, audio monitors, the ability to broadcast into the rooms? Panic buttons? All of which could have helped with the assessment. If no cameras, how difficult would it have been to drill a half-inch hole for a camera. Lots of questions.

There's also questions about the command structure. Did authority over what to do next transfer to the BP Tactical Unit commander when they arrived? When they became the next step the on scene authority should have also transferred. Also, I was a bit taken back by the idea that the on scene commander has ALL the authority. That sounded too much like someone upstairs ducking. In such situations, the on scene commander always has his own commander, his commander's commander, his commander's commander's commander all looking over his shoulder wanting to know what the decisions are and blending in additional information and ready usurp authority.
Heartlander · 80-89, M
@Onestarlitnight

The only equipment missing from the scene was BRAVERY..
The cops on the scene were COWARDS..
19 against 1??

We have 3 or 4 relatives who are or were law enforcement officers in the south Texas area and the last thing I would put on their personal profiles would be "coward" :)

If your reference to bravery is the image of WW1 soldiers climbing out of trenches to charge a bunkered line of machine guns, you may be unaware that behind the charging soldiers were other soldiers prepared to shoot those who refused to go or tried to turn back too early.

The risk of blatantly charging an active shooter included risks to the children that may have been used as human shields, even with 19 to 1 odds.

We don't know what went on there. We don't know if the bullets were passing through the walls, or whether the shooter was hiding behind the children, or really anything.

I would describe south Texas as having a predisposition towards violence and the various law enforcement agencies have plenty of experience dealing with it.

So let's wait for more of the details, and not forget the root cause: a disenfranchised older kid or young adult who took out his resentment and anger by killing others.
@Heartlander
They're all FUCKING COWARDS AND PIECES OF SHIT..
Heartlander · 80-89, M