Texas Tribune: Officers with AR-15s Were Scared to Confront Uvalde Shooter

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Texas Tribune: Officers with AR-15s Were Scared to Confront Uvalde Shooter

AWR Hawkins 21 Mar 2023

A March 20, 2023, Texas Tribune report claims officers, many of whom were armed with AR-15s, were afraid to confront the lone Uvalde school attacker, who was allegedly armed with an AR-15.

The Tribune quotes numerous police officers from various departments explaining the reason they abandoned protocol for confronting mass shooters is that they heard other officers on the radio saying the attacker had an “AR-15” or an “AR.”

They note that Uvalde police department Sgt. Donald Page told investigators, “You knew that it was definitely an AR. There was no way of going in. … We had no choice but to wait and try to get something that had better coverage where we could actually stand up to him.”

The Tribune also points to a quote from former Uvalde police chief Pete Arredondo: “We’re gonna get scrutinized (for) why we didn’t go in there. I know the firepower he had, based on what shells I saw, the holes in the wall in the room next to his. … The preservation of life, everything around (the gunman), was a priority.”

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https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2023/03/21/texas-tribune-officers-ar-15s-were-scared-confront-uvalde-shooter/

[Bigun]

But none of them minded picking up their paychecks! 

How they can live with themselves is beyond comprehension.

[Kamaji]

[mountaineer]

I wonder why they considered themselves outgunned, when several of them carried the same type of weapon.

[GtHawk]

I wonder why they considered themselves outgunned, when several of them carried the same type of weapon.

They weren't 'out gunned', they were...'OUT MANNED' and incapable of MANing up to do their jobs.

[mountaineer]

They weren't 'out gunned', they were...'OUT MANNED' and incapable of MANing up to do their jobs.

It certainly does appear that way.

[roamer_1]

Worse than that, they tried to keep others from doing what they failed to do...

[Smokin Joe]

Worse than that, they tried to keep others from doing what they failed to do...

You mean they didn't have even one flashbang? Set your stack, slide it in, take him down. Game over.  These guys had body armor, too, and the good stuff will stop .308.

[roamer_1]

You mean they didn't have even one flashbang? Set your stack, slide it in, take him down. Game over.  These guys had body armor, too, and the good stuff will stop .308.

All I know is that if my kid was in there and the cops were on their ass, there would be no stopping me getting in there... A pickup with a cowcatcher would go right through the locked doors, and a pickup full of pissed off rednecks is a handful... And they would not be hard to find. Armor or not.

[Smokin Joe]

All I know is that if my kid was in there and the cops were on their ass, there would be no stopping me getting in there... A pickup with a cowcatcher would go right through the locked doors, and a pickup full of pissed off rednecks is a handful... And they would not be hard to find. Armor or not.

[DB]

The entire Uvalde police department was a jobs program for political hacks.

[Wingnut]

They weren't 'out gunned', they were...'OUT MANNED' and incapable of MANing up to do their jobs.

Toxic masculinity not found on that PD.