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Novara

(5,853 posts)
Sat May 28, 2022, 05:17 PM May 2022

Michigan sheriff recalls response to Oxford following deadly Texas shooting

Michigan sheriff recalls response to Oxford following deadly Texas shooting

OXFORD, Mich. (WNEM) - New controversy surrounds who is responsible for police waiting outside a Uvalde, Texas classroom for nearly an hour before border patrol agents went in and killed the gunman.

The shooter killed 19 children and two teachers to at Robb Elementary School.

The Oakland County Sheriff said when chaos erupted in Oxford last November, his team didn’t hesitate, they did what they were trained to do.

“I know what’s happening right now in Texas and I know they’re going through, not just the worst day of their life, but having a lot of second layer questions of: why did the response do what it did,” Sheriff Mike Bouchard said.

Bouchard is recalling his own agency’s own response to the shooting at Oxford High School last November. He said it took minutes from the first 911 call to when the suspect was apprehended. Five minutes, in fact.


More: https://www.wnem.com/2022/05/28/michigan-sheriff-recalls-response-oxford-following-deadly-texas-shooting/

FIVE MINUTES. Sandy Hook was 10 minutes until they got to the shooter.
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Michigan sheriff recalls response to Oxford following deadly Texas shooting (Original Post) Novara May 2022 OP
They didn't care about the brown kids in Uvalde. roamer65 May 2022 #1
I suspect that's a big part of this ... Novara May 2022 #2
Do you have any proof of that? Phoenix61 May 2022 #3

roamer65

(36,747 posts)
1. They didn't care about the brown kids in Uvalde.
Sat May 28, 2022, 05:22 PM
May 2022

If it were a school with mainly white kids, it would have been 5-10 minutes.

Novara

(5,853 posts)
2. I suspect that's a big part of this ...
Sat May 28, 2022, 05:27 PM
May 2022

... utter incompetence. Yes, it's utter incompetence but I think it's also racism. In every picture and video I've seen of the Uvalde police, most are white.

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