The cops had advance notice of a gunman on the loose, from the shooter’s grandmother, at great pains, notifying the police.
He crashed his car before arriving at the school, once again alerting the police. His grandmother stood in the line of fire to stop him, teachers threw themselves in front of bullets to save their students - but the US cops, heavily armed and armoured, the prototypical ‘good guy with a gun’? They stood by and did nothing.
Cops kill defenceless kids more than mass shooters do, and when given the opportunity to stop a shooting, refuse. What heroes. The cowardice makes sense, though; cops have no obligation to protect people, just to defend property.
Honestly. Give it a few weeks and we’ll find out that, like practically every other mass shooter, the cops had known about and been in contact with him for months.
reportedly the parents had to scream at the officers to go in and stop him – he was in there for up to an hour before they went in after him. they went in and got their own kids out before attending to the victims.
Reminder that, after the cops spent an hour brutalising Chicano and Latino parents instead of stopping the shooter, ICE showed up to arrest any undocumented survivors.
