The apparent lies coming out of law enforcement agents who responded to the Uvalde elementary school massacre seem to be growing and growing with each passing moment at this point.
Uvalde Police have claimed as fact, in the days since the massacre, that 18-year-old high school dropout turned gunman, Salvador Ramos, was able to enter Robb Elementary School through a door that they asserted was left propped open by a teacher at the school. Last Tuesday, Ramos entered the elementary school through an unlocked door and barricaded himself inside a 4th-grade classroom where he proceeded to open fire, shoot, and kill a total of 19 children and 2 teachers. The teen gunman was reportedly inside the classroom for upwards of an hour, with multiple reports and accounts painting an unclear picture as to why the shooter was able to remain active inside the school for so long. Law enforcement officials in Uvalde have claimed that they took time to plan their entrance to confront and remove Ramos because they believed the threat to any more children inside the classroom was over within the first few minutes of the teen opening fire. New reports today have indicated that the police may have been untruthful, and likely were, in fact, aware that there were still children alive in the classroom.
An elite Border Patrol tactical unit eventually breached the 4th-grade classroom and shot and killed the gunman after his mass-murder spree.
San Antonio Express-News now reports that the teacher’s attorney has spoken out and directly contradicted this claim that was presented as fact by local Uvalde law enforcement — and they have the evidence to prove it.
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The aforementioned teacher, who remains anonymous, called 911 originally to report an accident involving a black truck very close to the elementary school, according to the teacher’s attorney Don Flanary. As it turned out, the driver of the vehicle was Salvador Ramos in the truck he stole from his grandmother, who he shot in the face prior to fleeing to the school. Flanary notes that the teacher propped the exterior door open around the time of the truck crash, but made it clear that the teacher did not leave the door propped open, contradictory to claims made by Uvalde police, as was not responsible for Ramos’ ability to enter Robb Elementary School.
“She saw the wreck,” Flanary explained. “She ran back inside to get her phone to report the accident. She came back out while on the phone with 911. The men at the funeral home yelled, ‘He has a gun!’ She saw him jump the fence, and he had a gun so she ran back inside. She kicked the rock away when she went back in. She remembers pulling the door closed while telling 911 that he was shooting. She thought the door would lock because that door is always supposed to be locked.”
Security footage from the elementary school has since confirmed that the unnamed teacher removed the rock that they used to prop open the exterior door of the school and closed the door.
The United States Department of Justice is now investigating the Uvalde Police after Texas authorities finally admitted on Friday that as many as 19 police officers stood in the hallway of Robb Elementary School for more than an hour last Tuesday, allegedly under the belief that Salvador Ramos was no longer actively shooting and killing on the other side of the door.
Now, it seems their new tactic to save their own skin is blaming teachers.
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