As more details about the recent Texas school massacre are released, the picture becomes increasingly disturbing.
Eye-witnesses are now explaining that local police stood outside the school, leaving the killer inside the building for nearly an hour. They made no attempt to enter the school or to stop the shooter during this time.
In fact, the police prohibited locals gathered outside the school from launching an assault of their own when the police refused to intervene and stop the killing.
Police actually tasered one man who tried to enter the school on his own. Meanwhile, local police entered through the back door to remove their own children from the school while listening to the murderous gunfire killing 19 children and two teachers.
As it becomes increasingly clear that that US police are being trained to place their own safety above public safety, it is long past time to ask questions.
When and where was this decision made? Where are the training materials being produced? Why does anyone enlist for a potentially dangerous job if they are not willing to take risks?
Our risk-averse police force is literally killing people.
The police shoot unarmed black people regularly. Now they have the blood of another 21 people on their hands because they cared more about their own safety than they did about the little children they had sworn to serve.
The traditional law-enforcement motto, to protect and serve, seems now only to apply to themselves.
Below is an excerpt from an article on the Associated Press News site. It’s titled “Onlookers Urged Police to Charge into Texas School.”
Javier Cazares, whose fourth grade daughter, Jacklyn Cazares, was killed in the attack, said he raced to the school when he heard about the shooting, arriving while police were still gathered outside the building.
Upset that police were not moving in, he raised the idea of charging into the school with several other bystanders.
“Let’s just rush in because the cops aren’t doing anything like they are supposed to,” he said. “More could have been done.”
“They were unprepared,” he added.
Read the entire article here.
Below is a clip from Breaking Points News which discusses this new dimension of the Texas shooting story. They include video of the parents standing outside the school shouting at police to enter and subdue the shooter:
