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WTH?! Cops Refused To Take Out Uvalde Shooter When They Had The Chance

There were 21 left dead in the Uvalde school shooting with another 17 wounded, but was this unnecessary? New information has come out that appears to make the entire shooting incident a bigger tragedy than we originally thought. Before the shooter entered the building a Uvalde police officer had him in his sights and he asked for permission to take him out. That permission never came and the shooter gained

But, it is too early to draw conclusions, but it is something that needs to be looked into. The supervisor may not have gotten the message or replied too late. And the officer had the legal right to kill the shooter to prevent the murders under Texas law, but he may not have known that. We do know something went wrong. And we see the death toll was much higher than it needed to be thanks to a 77-minute delay in taking on the shooter.

One of the reasons that it has been so hard to definitively lay the blame is that there were just so many missteps that zeroing on the main cause becomes difficult, to say the least, but I don’t think there is any argument over whether the shot to take out the shooter before he entered the building should have been made. If it had, none of the other mistakes would have been made.

The Texas State University’s Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training report says:

“The officer, armed with a rifle, asked his supervisor for permission to shoot the suspect. However, the supervisor either did not hear or responded too late. The officer turned to get confirmation from his supervisor and when he turned back to address the suspect, he had entered the west hallway unabated.”

From The Blaze

While the officer would have been allowed to fire on the suspect at the time, the report said he could have mistakenly believed he needed authorization from a supervisor, or he could have believed the suspect was too far away for an accurate shot.

The assessment found other failings of the police response that may had led to the preventable loss of life.

It found that officers “lost momentum” waiting for more firepower and equipment to arrive at the school while taking more fire. The report said that officers failed to consider other options to breach the room, including going through the sheetrock or through the windows.

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