# Controversial encounters between law-enforcement and civilians - the omnibus thread #2

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**Created:** [June 23, 2020, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread-2/912531 "2020-06-23T20:29:26Z")\
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When the active shooter incident at Robb Elementary began yesterday, the police let the shooter barricade himself in a classroom with children and adults inside, then started evacuating their own children and left him in there for an hour, without making any attempt to break down the door, until they found a teacher with a key, during which time they threatened to Tase parents who wanted to rush the school themselves.

**ALL** of the dead were in that classroom.

> **[Onlookers urged police to charge into Texas school](https://apnews.com/article/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-44a7cfb990feaa6ffe482483df6e4683)**
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> UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Frustrated onlookers urged police officers to charge into the Texas elementary school where a gunman's rampage killed 19 children and two teachers , witnesses said Wednesday, as investigators worked to track the massacre that...

> <https://twitter.com/paleofuture/status/1529652093354536961>
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> Andy Specht @AndySpecht

> <https://twitter.com/_Sir_Perfluous/status/1529584296415186952>

Perhaps someone should have reported that there was a black child kneeling during the Pledge of Allegiance or a 78-year-old woman with dementia and they’d have gone in guns blazing.

The Uvalde police are abject cowards and deserve to be charged with accessory to murder.

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