{"id":1510029,"date":"2022-06-09T20:35:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T00:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1510029"},"modified":"2022-06-09T20:36:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T00:36:15","slug":"uvalde-cops-knew-kids-were-still-alive-inside-the-school-and-waited-outside-anyway-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uvalde-cops-knew-kids-were-still-alive-inside-the-school-and-waited-outside-anyway-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Uvalde Cops Knew Kids Were Still Alive Inside The School \u2014 And Waited Outside Anyway: Report"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fuvalde-cops-knew-kids-were-still-alive-inside-the-school-and-waited-outside-anyway-report%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=1510029&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>Police officers waited outside Robb Elementary School for more than an hour, despite being armed with the knowledge that there were still children trapped inside with the gunman, still alive, and possibly wounded.<\/p>\n<p>According to an article published Thursday detailing an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/09\/us\/uvalde-shooting-police-response.html\">investigation<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 undertaken by The New York Times \u2014 into the widely-panned police response to the tragic shooting in Uvalde, Texas, body camera footage and documentation suggest that the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/new-timeline-of-events-emerges-from-uvalde-shooting-that-casts-police-chief-in-even-more-negative-light\">initial claims<\/a> made by law enforcement were false.<\/p>\n<p>Uvalde school district top cop <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/police-chief-in-charge-of-scene-at-uvalde-school-shooting-was-never-given-vital-piece-of-info-tx-official\/\">Pedro Arredondo<\/a>, who was in charge at the scene of the shooting, reported that he was unaware students were dialing 911 from inside the classroom \u2014 one even taking a mobile phone from her deceased teacher in order to do so. But the Times report suggested otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeavily armed officers delayed confronting a gunman in Uvalde, Texas, for more than an hour despite supervisors at the scene being told that some trapped with him in two elementary school classrooms were in need of medical treatment, a new review of video footage and other investigative material shows,\u201d Times reporter J. David Goodman wrote, citing footage from officers\u2019 body cameras and documentation compiled after the shooting. \u201cInstead, the documents show, they waited for protective equipment to lower the risk to law enforcement officers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe school district police chief, who was leading the response to the May 24 shooting, appeared to be agonizing over the length of time it was taking to secure the shields that would help protect officers when they entered and to find a key for the classroom doors,\u201d Goodman added.<\/p>\n<p>Despite apparently being aware that students were still alive inside the building, police officers still waited over an hour to secure protective shields for themselves prior to breaching the classroom where the gunman was barricaded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe chief, Pete Arredondo, and others at the scene became aware that not everyone inside the classrooms was already dead, the documents showed, including a report from a school district police officer whose wife, a teacher, had spoken to him by phone from one of the classrooms to say she had been shot,\u201d Goodman wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Texas DPS chief <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/of-course-it-was-not-the-right-decision-dps-director-says-cops-should-have-charged-uvalde-school\/\">Steven McCraw<\/a> called out the local officials in the days after the shooting, saying that they had been wrong to wait outside \u2014 even if they were waiting on additional manpower or equipment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Of course it was not the right decision!&#8221; TX DPS Director says cops should have charged <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Uvalde?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Uvalde<\/a> school. &#8220;Every officer lines up stacks up, goes and finds where the rounds are being fired at and keeps shooting until the subject is dead, period.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9qOL0jHXbx\">pic.twitter.com\/9qOL0jHXbx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Virginia Kruta (@VAKruta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VAKruta\/status\/1530224534128828420?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course it was not the right decision it was the wrong decision period. There is no excuse for that,\u201d he said. \u201cBy the way, Texas embraces active shooter training, active shooter certification. That doctrine requires officers, we don\u2019t care what agency you are from you don\u2019t have to have a leader on the scene. Every officer lines up, stacks up, goes and finds where the rounds are being fired at, and keeps shooting to the subject is dead, period.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police officers waited outside Robb Elementary School for more than an hour, despite being armed with the knowledge that there were still children trapped inside with the gunman, still alive, and possibly wounded. According to an article published Thursday detailing an\u00a0investigation\u00a0\u2014 undertaken by The New York Times \u2014 into the widely-panned police response to the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1510061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1510029","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\/1510029","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=1510029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1510061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1510029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1510029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}