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Mike McDaniel, far more qualified than me to provide any analysis offers his observations
Things are moving fast in this case, gentle readers. We begin with this surprising, but hopeful, admission:
Nearly 20 officers stood in a hallway outside of the classrooms during this week’s attack on a Texas elementary school for more than 45 minutes before agents used a master key to open a door and confront a gunman, authorities said Friday.
The on-site commander believed the gunman, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, was barricaded in a classroom at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde during Tuesday’s attack and that the children were not at risk, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw said at a news conference.
If this is accurate, what the f***?! No one present had the wits to find a crowbar or a key?! The fire department was present. All fire departments have purpose-designed door breaching tools. No one thought to get one of those?! It now appears the “barricade” was nothing more than a locked classroom door, and this formidable obstacle stymied the police for “more than 45 minutes?!”
The Chief of Police for the school district md the decision NOT to enter the classroom. WHY?
He was convinced at the time that there was no more threat to the children and that the subject was barricaded and that they had time to organize’ to get into the classroom, McCraw said.
‘Of course it was not the right decision. It was the wrong decision,’ he said.
Perhaps the occasional, continuing gunshots from inside the classroom might have been an indication?
Dear God. I cannot go on, go read it all.
