Posted on Jun 20, 2022
Uvalde, Texas, Police Didn't Attempt To Open Classroom Door: Report
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"Police officers who responded to the Uvalde, Texas, school massacre didn’t try to open a door to classrooms even as they had access to a “crowbar-like tool” to do so when the shooter was inside, a source told the San Antonio Express-News.
The source, whom the newspaper identified as law enforcement close to the investigation, revealed officers didn’t make an attempt at the door in the 77 minutes between when the gunman entered the classrooms and when law enforcement breached the door.
The massacre left 19 children and two teachers dead in May after the gunman entered Robb Elementary through an unlocked door.
Classroom doors were “designed to lock automatically,” however, the source said video shows the gunman opened a door to enter a classroom connected to another classroom.
The “crowbar-like tool” could have opened the door and Uvalde schools police chief Pete Arredondo didn’t try keys on the door to the classroom where the shooter was inside, the source said.
The new details come just one day after a report in The New York Times indicated a police officer had a “brief chance” to shoot the gunman with his AR-15-style rifle but didn’t out of concern he might also hit students."
The source, whom the newspaper identified as law enforcement close to the investigation, revealed officers didn’t make an attempt at the door in the 77 minutes between when the gunman entered the classrooms and when law enforcement breached the door.
The massacre left 19 children and two teachers dead in May after the gunman entered Robb Elementary through an unlocked door.
Classroom doors were “designed to lock automatically,” however, the source said video shows the gunman opened a door to enter a classroom connected to another classroom.
The “crowbar-like tool” could have opened the door and Uvalde schools police chief Pete Arredondo didn’t try keys on the door to the classroom where the shooter was inside, the source said.
The new details come just one day after a report in The New York Times indicated a police officer had a “brief chance” to shoot the gunman with his AR-15-style rifle but didn’t out of concern he might also hit students."
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From another article: ""The door to the classroom where Uvalde gunman Salvador Ramos carried out his murderous rampage may have been unlocked the entire time while police officers waited 77 minutes for a key, according to a bombshell report.
Surveillance footage from inside Robb Elementary School shows that police officers responding to the 24 May mass shooting never even tried to open the door to the two connecting classrooms where the gunman was holed up with his victims, a law enforcement source told the San Antonio Express-News.
The source said that investigators may have assumed that the door had automatically locked – but that evidence now suggests it was open throughout the 77-minute delay now believed to have cost lives.
Classroom doors at the elementary school are designed to automatically lock when they are closed, meaning that entry is only possible using a key.
However, investigators believe there was a malfunction in the system that day."
"It was this malfunction that is now thought to have enabled the gunman to enter the building in the first place, the source said."
"Surveillance footage shows the 18-year-old gunman entered Robb Elementary School through an exterior door that had been closed by a teacher but had failed to automatically lock.
Officials had previously falsely accused the teacher of not closing the door.
Ramos then managed to also open the door to one of the two adjoining classrooms, entering and opening fire.
Two minutes after he entered, the gunman briefly left the classrooms again.
He was spotted on footage in the hallway, before reentering through the classroom door again, the source said.
Ramos did not use a key to enter and it is claimed that he would not have been able to then lock the door from the inside.
Investigators are now probing whether the door to the classroom was unlocked during the entire siege.
Even if the door was locked, the source said that law enforcement officers had access to a crowbar-like tool the entire time that they could have used to force entry.""
This is disgusting. The police have 40% of that town's budget - and for what? They failed at every possible turn in this case. I guarantee you no one will trust the police in that town again and I don't blame them. And if I was one of those parents...you better believe I'm filing a wrongful death suit so there's some accountability somewhere. Because you no that none of those cops are getting charged because of the police unions.
Surveillance footage from inside Robb Elementary School shows that police officers responding to the 24 May mass shooting never even tried to open the door to the two connecting classrooms where the gunman was holed up with his victims, a law enforcement source told the San Antonio Express-News.
The source said that investigators may have assumed that the door had automatically locked – but that evidence now suggests it was open throughout the 77-minute delay now believed to have cost lives.
Classroom doors at the elementary school are designed to automatically lock when they are closed, meaning that entry is only possible using a key.
However, investigators believe there was a malfunction in the system that day."
"It was this malfunction that is now thought to have enabled the gunman to enter the building in the first place, the source said."
"Surveillance footage shows the 18-year-old gunman entered Robb Elementary School through an exterior door that had been closed by a teacher but had failed to automatically lock.
Officials had previously falsely accused the teacher of not closing the door.
Ramos then managed to also open the door to one of the two adjoining classrooms, entering and opening fire.
Two minutes after he entered, the gunman briefly left the classrooms again.
He was spotted on footage in the hallway, before reentering through the classroom door again, the source said.
Ramos did not use a key to enter and it is claimed that he would not have been able to then lock the door from the inside.
Investigators are now probing whether the door to the classroom was unlocked during the entire siege.
Even if the door was locked, the source said that law enforcement officers had access to a crowbar-like tool the entire time that they could have used to force entry.""
This is disgusting. The police have 40% of that town's budget - and for what? They failed at every possible turn in this case. I guarantee you no one will trust the police in that town again and I don't blame them. And if I was one of those parents...you better believe I'm filing a wrongful death suit so there's some accountability somewhere. Because you no that none of those cops are getting charged because of the police unions.
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