JHC!!! Video appears to show Texas 911 dispatchers relaying information from children in classroom

[In It to Win It]

GMA via Yahoo News

Video obtained by ABC News, taken outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, as last week's massacre was unfolding inside, appears to capture a 911 dispatcher alerting officers on scene that they were receiving calls from children who were alive inside the classroom that the gunman had entered -- as law enforcement continued to wait nearly an hour and a half to enter the room.

"Child is advising he is in the room, full of victims," the dispatcher can be heard saying in the video. "Full of victims at this moment."

"Is anybody inside of the building at this...?" the dispatcher asked.

At a news conference Friday, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McGraw said children inside the classroom had called 911 a number of times begging for them to "please send police now." It appeared that information may not have been relayed to officers on the ground, he said.

[secondwind]

2. At the very least, heads should roll.

They need to be behind bars, imho.

He was inside the school for 77 MINUTES. 🤬

[mn9driver]

3. If they were in the military they could be charged with cowardice under fire.

As civilians , probably nothing will happen to them. Except that they might lose their job.

[mopinko]

5. isnt that grounds to fire a cop?

may not be exactly the same, but i sure hope they use that word in the firing docs.

[SKKY]

22. Article 134 of the UCMJ, at the very least...

...although that would probably just be an add-on.

[Shipwack]

23. The police are under no obligation to aid civilians

According to a couple of Supreme Court cases, police are not obligated to react to protect citizens…
https://mises.org/power-market/police-have-no-duty-protect-you-federal-court-affirms-yet-again

As for being fired over this, I suppose they -could-. Florida is a so-called “right to work” state. They could be fired for having mismatched socked, or if the mayor wanted to give his nephew a job.

WILL they be fired… I dunno. It probably depends on if they can stall until the public loses interest, or if it is decided it would be a good PR move.

[Delphinus]

34. What is

their job then?

[Ray Bruns]

36. To make sure POC stay in their place.

[Novara]

39. That decision needs to be challenged

I don't trust THIS SCOTUS but that decision needs to be challenged.

It appears that the Parkland students sued based on their definition of being in custody - i.e. schooling is mandated so they were in the custody of the state and therefore, police have a duty to protect people who are in custody. And the court ruled they were not in police custody, so they don't have a responsibility to protect them. Their Constitutional duty to protect only extends to people in police custody.

Seems a good lawyer could parse this - not based on custody, but another legal precept. Do cops take any sort of oath when they become cops?

........

A little googling says they do take an oath to the Constitution and then it would seem every police force is different regarding what else they may include in the oath. I'd like to know what sort of oath Uvalde cops take and if they can be charged with violating it. Something should be done. There needs to be accountability. If they get away with such unfathomable dereliction, then cops are basically useless.

I mean, they stood in the hallway for more than an hour while children bled to death! And they knew kids were still alive in that room!

[we can do it]

7. Dereliction of duty if they were firefighters.

But cops are allowed to be scared.😡

[PJMcK]

4. The cops are lying about what happened

They were cowards and now they're caught. Children died because the cops didn't do their damn jobs.

That police force should be disbanded and rebuilt with professionals.

[underpants]

8. Stalling for time

They have to be hoping that the further we get away from that day, the more likely everything will just back to how things were. Since the Texas Dept of Safety (whatevs) jumped into it by get caught in flat out lies too they were provide cover for the local cops.

The people there (very close knit from what I understand) won’t forget and the man in the mirror don’t lie.

[Probatim]

11. It's like waiting out victims involved in a lawsuit (e.g., coal ash cleanup, etc.).

If these clowns wait a few more days, another egregious mass shooting will take place and we'll forget about Uvalde.

That's a shitty thing to say. It's what will happen in the news. It's where we are as a society.

[underpants]

12. Link to a thread about the relationship there

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016323888

[niyad]

6. The tex-ass "public safety officer" (sarcasm icon implied) would have us

believe that they needed information from the chikdren being massacred before they could do anything????

JFC, who trains these people???

[spanone]

9. Let's get a criminal investigation started asap

[BlackSkimmer]

19. The DOJ is investigating.

I hope something comes of that.

At the very least, that Arredondo idiot should be fired.

[Mozeltov Cocktail]

28. And the police department in Uvalde has decided to quit cooperating...

I'm guessing that there is still much worse revelations waiting to come out. I don't really want to speculate but the Uvalde police department released a statement within 20 hours of the shooting, stating that all the dead and wounded had been shot by the lone shooter...this was a stand alone statement about facts that typically would not be known within 20 hours of a shooting of this size and scope.
More telling now, is their refusal to cooperate with the DOJ...
Arrendonde was elected May 7th to serve on the city council...he was supposed to be sworn in today (May 31st).

[In It to Win It]

29. They are not cooperating with the Texas DPS investigation. The DOJ investigation is separate

The DOJ said that the city mayor asked for the DOJ investigation... which sounds odd but ok

[Mozeltov Cocktail]

30. Very odd considering that the mayor seems to be involved...

I did not know that there was a different investigation... thanks

[AdamGG]

32. Was it that mayor that called Beto a "sick son of a bitch"?

[machoneman]

10. All were white officers who knew the school was composed of Latino kids. Why get killed for them?

Doubt this fact? Check the pics posted here on DU of the cops, then read the names of the kids.

[harumph]

18. That is not factual.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/28/us/uvalde-school-police.html

I don't think race played a part in this - possible fear of getting shot, lack of leadership - yes.

[BlackSkimmer]

20. Nope. nt

[LeftInTX]

25. No..law enforcement was mostly Latino

Law enforcement is a popular career for Latinos in South Texas
Good pay, good benefits, good job security

[ShazzieB]

31. I don't know where you got that information, but it's incorrect.

Uvalde school district police chief Pedro “Pete” Arredondo was the one in charge when the cops were all standing around outside the school with their heads up their asses instead of going in and rescuing the kids.



This story about the cops being white needs to die in a fire. It's not only untrue; it's a red herring creating a distraction from the actual facts.

[Dukkha]

35. stop playing the race card from the bottom of the deck

Total bullshit fabrication. As bad as Canon conspiracist

[WhiskeyGrinder]

13. Cops don't keep us safe.

[aggiesal]

14. Everyday the official story collapses little by little ...

These officials have to either resign or seriously get voted out.

[In It to Win It]

16. Tell me about it. Everyday is something different.

Either they tell a different version of the events or someone breaks it in the news.

[Mozeltov Cocktail]

15. The Supreme Court, Justice Scalia writing the majority opinion...

...ruled that police officers are not compelled or obligated to endanger their own safety...yep, that's it...

[NBachers]

17. They'll all get medals, commendations, ribbons, promotions, and awards.

[Hav]

21. Seems like the dispatcher was the only one who cared

about kids being trapped in the room with the killer. Very precise and concise delivery of the crucial information. The dispatcher who talked directly to the scared kids must be devastated as well.

[In It to Win It]

26. On initial reports, it seemed like the entire emergency response apparatus of the city and county

completely failed at such a critical time. It just seemed like every layer of the system failed, from dispatcher to command to officers.

As more details come out, the picture gets clearer and the more it seems that isn't so true.

[70sEraVet]

24. I hope all of those cops get assigned to Abbott's personal security detail.

See how confident he feels, that one of those cops would take a bullet for him.

[area51]

27. +1 n/t

[SleeplessinSoCal]

33. I'm thinking about the Capitol police who committed suicide after 1/6

I wonder what the actual reason was. Three of them I think.

[Dukkha]

37. I'd say this will be a big scandal

But who am I kidding they never care. It's always far more important to stay deeply entrenched in tribalism than to actually give a shit about their own children's lives. Their dysfunctional minds will spin any kind of excuse.

[In It to Win It]

38. I think they will use this

To place the blame on the police, which they absolutely share some blame here. I think they are going to keep the topic on the actions of the police rather than the easy access to guns. They will blame the loss of life on the police rather than the guns.