{"id":1493900,"date":"2022-05-26T21:59:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T01:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1493900"},"modified":"2022-05-26T21:59:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T01:59:44","slug":"they-couldve-been-shot-texas-cop-explains-why-police-waited-to-enter-uvalde-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/they-couldve-been-shot-texas-cop-explains-why-police-waited-to-enter-uvalde-school\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They Could\u2019ve Been Shot\u2019: Texas Cop Explains Why Police Waited To Enter Uvalde School"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthey-couldve-been-shot-texas-cop-explains-why-police-waited-to-enter-uvalde-school%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1493900&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Texas DPS Lieutenant Chris Olivarez said that law enforcement officers had not entered Robb Elementary School right away because they were concerned that they could be shot.<\/p>\n<p>Olivarez spoke with CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer on Thursday\u2019s broadcast of \u201cThe Situation Room,\u201d and Blitzer asked why officers had waited outside rather than rushing the school and engaging the active shooter at the first possible moment.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;They could&#8217;ve been shot. They could&#8217;ve been killed,&#8221; Texas police lieutenant explains why law enforcement did not go into Uvalde school right away. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lfzTtAQqFg\">pic.twitter.com\/lfzTtAQqFg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Virginia Kruta (@VAKruta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VAKruta\/status\/1529977770931113987?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Olivarez began by explaining that officers had gone into the school very quickly, but they had heard the gunfire and called for backup, opting to wait for the assistance a tactical team could provide rather than charging into the classroom where the shooter had already barricaded himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t current best practices,\u00a0don\u2019t they call for officers to\u00a0disable a shooter as quickly as\u00a0possible, regardless of how many\u00a0officers are actually on site?\u201d Blitzer asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCorrect,\u201d Olivares agreed, but then he went on to explain why the officers at the scene had chosen to take a different approach. \u201cThe active shooter situation, you want to stop the killing, you want to preserve life, but also one thing that \u2013 of course, the American people need to understand \u2014 that officers are making entry into this building. They do not know where the gunman is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are hearing gunshots.\u00a0They are receiving gunshots,\u201d Olivares continued. \u201cAt that point, if they proceeded any further not knowing where the suspect was at, they could\u2019ve been shot, they could\u2019ve been killed, and that gunman would have had an opportunity to kill other people inside that school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since the shooting on Tuesday, a number of conflicting reports have come out about when police officers first engaged the gunman and whether or not they could have or should have entered the school sooner than they did.<\/p>\n<p>Initial reports suggested that a school police officer had engaged the shooter before he entered the school \u2014 but DPS <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/confirmed-shooter-was-not-confronted-by-cops-before-entering-school-through-unlocked-door\/\">officials confirmed<\/a> on Thursday afternoon that he had not been stopped prior to entering the school through an unlocked door.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTexas DPS now says that there was no school police officer who encountered or engaged the mass shooter at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX. Shooter was not confronted before entry and it appears he walked into the school through an unlocked door, per DPS,\u201d Fox News reporter Bill Melugin <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillFOXLA\/status\/1529895723243909141\">tweeted<\/a> following a press conference with local law enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas DPS Lieutenant Chris Olivarez said that law enforcement officers had not entered Robb Elementary School right away because they were concerned that they could be shot. Olivarez spoke with CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer on Thursday\u2019s broadcast of \u201cThe Situation Room,\u201d and Blitzer asked why officers had waited outside rather than rushing the school and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1493921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1493900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1493921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}