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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
https://apnews.com/article/uvalde-te...482483df6e4683
Onlookers begging the police to go in after the shooter. I get the idea of what they are trying to do but seems like there needs to be more assertive policies when someone is shooting up a bunch of 10 year olds.
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If he intended to kill the children, they were already dead. "Assertive" techniques would have just put the officers and public at an increased risk.
If he didn't intend to kill the children (ransom, platform or just fleeing from his domestic dispute with his grandmother), escalating the situation puts the children at risk along with the officers. Imagine the backlash if the shooter was just using the children as a human shield and some Rambo-wannabe-cop went in gun blazing?
However he got into the school after engaging with the resources officer was a fault of some type. But once inside and barricading, I don't think the officers had much else they could do except protect those they could and try to gather intel until they were ready to engage.