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Reuters reports:
Desperate parents gathered outside Robb Elementary School and implored police to storm the Texas school as Tuesday’s massacre was unfolding, with some fathers having to be restrained, videos that surfaced on Thursday showed.
The videos – along with initial accounts of the shooting timeline from authorities – suggest up to an hour passed between the beginning of the attack and the moment officers breached the classroom where 18-year-old Salvador Ramos had killed 19 children and two teachers. They shot him dead.
In one video posted on Facebook by a man named Angel Ledezma, parents can be seen breaking through yellow police tape and yelling at officers to go into the building.
CNN reports:
Several social media videos shot outside Robb Elementary on Tuesday show frantic parents rushing to the school and pleading with officers to go inside to stop the gunman or let them go in themselves as the situation was still unfolding.
The video shows law enforcement officers holding parents back – behind the yellow tape of a police line — from entering the school, as crying and screaming can be heard in the background.
“They’re shooting in there!” someone is heard saying, “and these motherf**kers are out here worried about us.”
Mediaite reports:
Texas Department Public Safety spokesman Lt. Christopher Olivarez confirmed to a reporter during a live shot that police officers went into Robb Elementary School to get their own children during the massacre.
Amid outrage over reports that frantic families who complained about police inaction during the massacre were held back by police, a clip of a live interview with Olivarez from Tuesday has gone viral.
“Right. So what we do know, Vanessa, right now, that there was some police officers, families trying to get their children out of school because it was a active shooter situation right now. It’s a terrible situation right now. It’s just a terrible, it’s a terrible tragedy of another took place.”
The final clip below is the police press conference that just ended.
Here’s a Texas DPS Lieutenant telling a local station that some officers breached the school to get their own children BEFORE the shooter was taken down. pic.twitter.com/BrvS4sCqp6
— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) May 26, 2022
Maybe instead of the Uvalde Mayor yelling at Beto and doing hits on Fox, he should give an explanation for this to the parents of these children and people in his community. https://t.co/F8Irss62CE
— Ron Filipkowski ?? (@RonFilipkowski) May 26, 2022