re: #292 No Malarkey!

I get that the cops were afraid to confront a homicidal, heavily armed gunman. That’s why the “good guy with a gun” trope is false. We need to deny guns to the bad guys so this scenario doesn’t keep happening. But we won’t, and it will.

So, uhhh, about that. Apparently they weren’t too afraid, as long as it was their own kids on the line: mediaite.com

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.

In the clip, Vanessa Croix of KENS 5 says she’s heard that police went into the school to get their own kids while the shooting was going on, asks Lt. Olivarez about it.