{"id":1508299,"date":"2022-06-08T18:19:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T22:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1508299"},"modified":"2022-06-08T18:19:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T22:19:26","slug":"cowards-wounded-uvalde-teacher-condemns-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cowards-wounded-uvalde-teacher-condemns-police\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Cowards\u2019: Wounded Uvalde Teacher Condemns Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/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%2Fcowards-wounded-uvalde-teacher-condemns-police%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=1508299&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>A man who taught 11 of the children killed in last month\u2019s school shooting in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/uvalde\">Uvalde<\/a>, Texas, and was himself critically wounded, condemned the botched law enforcement response, calling local police \u201ccowards\u201d in an interview Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Anfulo Reyes, a 3rd and 4th grade teacher at Robb Elementary, described the events that unfolded in his classroom on the day of the shooting in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodmorningamerica.com\/news\/story\/cowards-teacher-survived-uvalde-shooting-slams-police-response-85219697\">ABC News<\/a>. Reyes was shot multiple times, with the second volley piercing his lung. Reyes has thus far required five surgeries and two blood transfusions, and gave the interview while hospitalized. He criticized the Uvalde police for not responding sooner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re cowards,\u201d Reyes said. \u201cThey sit there and did nothing for our community. They took a long time to go in. \u2026 I will never forgive them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou had a bulletproof vest. I had nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reyes began the day of May 24 in good spirits: finals had concluded, an award ceremony was planned, and Reyes planned to show his students a movie \u2014 an animated version of \u201cThe Addams Family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was going to be a good day,\u201d Reyes told ABC. \u201cThere was nothing unusual that day; we were just walking back to the classroom \u2026 to watch the rest of the movie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At 11:30 a.m., Reyes heard a bang, which he suspected might have been a gunshot. He told his students to lie down and take cover under the desks \u201cjust like they practiced\u201d; the school had conducted active shooter drills as recently as March.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe kids were yelling, \u2018What\u2019s going on, Mr. Reyes?\u2019\u201d he said. \u201c[The students] were going under the table, and I was trying to get them to do that as fast as I could.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I turned around,\u201d he said, \u201cI just saw him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reports of the massacre initially claimed that the shooter entered the building through an open door, but later investigation revealed that the door was closed, but the latch that automatically locked the door was broken. Reyes had previously raised the issue with the school. \u201cI would tell my principal, \u2018Hey, I\u2019m going to get in trouble again, they\u2019re going to come and tell you that I left my door unlocked, which I didn\u2019t,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cBut the latch was stuck. So, it was just an easy fix.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement did not enter the building and neutralize the shooter until 77 minutes later, after 19 students and 2 teachers had been killed, including 11 in Reyes\u2019 classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Reyes ordered his students to pretend they were asleep and was shot moments after seeing the shooter, losing sensation in his arm. Immediately afterward, the shooter unloaded indiscriminately into the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI prayed that I wouldn\u2019t hear none of my students talk,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I didn\u2019t hear talk for a while. But then, later on, he did shoot again. So, if he didn\u2019t get them the first time, he got them the second time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reyes claimed to have heard police approaching three times over the course of his ordeal, but that they never entered the hallway to his classroom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the students from the next-door classroom was saying, \u2018Officer, we\u2019re in here. We\u2019re in here\u2019\u2026But the [police] had already left,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then [the gunman] got up from behind my desk and he walked over there, and he shot again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reyes pretended to be unconscious, as he told his students to, but was shot again anyway, \u201cJust to make sure that I was dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had no concept of time,\u201d Reyes said. \u201cWhen things go bad, it seems like eternity. The only thing that I can say is I felt like my blood was like an hourglass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Outside, parents and concerned citizens were cajoling the police to enter the building, but it wasn\u2019t until 12:50 p.m. that a tactical unit of Border Patrol breached the classroom and eliminated the shooter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter that it was just bullets everywhere,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd then I just remember Border Patrol saying, \u2018Get up, get out,\u2019 and I couldn\u2019t get up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reyes argued that there were multiple failures in the implementation of the school\u2019s safety plan, but reserved most of his criticisms for lawmakers and police. \u201cNo training would ever prepare anybody for this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Uvalde police have come under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/embattled-uvalde-schools-police-chief-insists-hes-cooperating-with-massacre-probe\">intense scrutiny<\/a> for treating the active shooter situation as a barricaded subject scenario, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/05\/29\/criticism-police-response-uvalde-shooting-00035859\">many observers<\/a> have condemned their slow response time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only thing that I know is that I won\u2019t let these children and my co-workers die in vain,\u201d he said. \u201cI will go to the end of the world to make sure things get changed. If that\u2019s what I have to do for the rest of my life, I will do it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man who taught 11 of the children killed in last month\u2019s school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and was himself critically wounded, condemned the botched law enforcement response, calling local police \u201ccowards\u201d in an interview Tuesday. 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