They literally reported they saw smoke and smelled gunpowder near the classrooms. Plus when they first arrived in the hallways he still had another ~20 or so bullets to fire.
And while the school police chief said a nearby classroom was empty, he then saw that another nearby classroom had kids in it. So his reasoning isn't even consistent.
So in other words the police tactically engaged the shooter by using the bodies of one group of children as bullet sponges to protect another group of children. Got it. Makes total sense when understood within the context of the utter absurdity that is American policing.
The incompetence on display here reminds me of the Spongebob episode where the police arrested the "Tattletale Strangler" at the beginning, with all the cops lining up to add to all of the various shackles and restraints that the others already applied to him, making it virtually impossible for him to escape... only for him to escape while they weren't looking because they forgot to lock any of them.
Except that's giving the Uvalde cops too much credit, because the cops in Spongebob actually TRIED to do their job.
A-Purrrrov-ed.😽 And resteemed!
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