Border patrol agents that put down Uvalde shooter entered the school against local police orders.

 

The National Review. 

The Border Patrol agents that put down the Uvalde shooter entered the school against local police orders. National Review. The Border Patrol's tactical team, BORTAC, and the US Customs and Immigration HSI team arrived and were ordered to stand down. The HSI agents helped evacuate children from the school while the BORTAC agents waited for 30 minutes. At that point they entered the school and were able to engage and kill the shooter. Police have come under intense criticism for their response to the shooting that left 21 people dead. 

Meanwhile, the US Justice Department has announced that they will investigate the police response to the killing. Politico. The review will force an accounting for the major delay in police response and why it fell to the Border Patrol to end the shooting. 

My Comment:

I don't have too much to say here other than the scale of incompetence here is baffling. Why would the local cops force the BORTAC unit to wait for 30 minutes. Why didn't they go in before hand? Why did they use the HSI tactical team as glorified babysitters instead of using them to take down the shooter? I am thankful that the BORTAC guys eventually said "screw this" and went in and ended this situation. 

The level of incompetence here is almost beyond comprehension to the point where people are reasonably questioning if it was incompetence at all. At some point the question has to be asked was this allowed to happen on purpose? I don't think that is what happened here but it is an explanation that makes more sense than the incompetence. 

I am glad that the Justice Department is investigating this, though I doubt that they will have much of an effect. The Justice Department doesn't have too much in the way of credibility these days and I don't know if they find anything out they will share it with the general public. 

I do know that the Uvalde Police didn't follow even the most basic rules for stopping a mass shooting. The most important thing is to confront the shooter as soon as possible. Even worse they lied about doing so, saying the community police officer was there and engaged the shooter, even though that never happened. 

The Democrats are still trying to push gun control, but this appears to have been a failure of everything but gun laws. The attacker followed gun laws and was able to purchase his weapons legally (though I do wonder how he afforded it). But the most basic anti-shooter rules were not followed. The attacker was able to enter the school because someone left open a door that should have been secured, especially after the shooting started. And then the cops totally failed. Had both of those things not been true instead of 21 people being dead, perhaps nobody would have been.