Fox News contributor Tom Homan continues to defend the action of law enforcement in the tragic Uvalde school shooting on Friday, even after a police official admitted that police made the “wrong decision” to wait while the gunman massacred children and teachers.
In a beautiful and heartbreaking press conferenceTexas Department of Public Safety Superintendent Steven McCraw said officers at the scene of the horrific massacre at Robb Elementary School on Tuesday believed they were dealing with a “barrier subject” after when the Salvador Ramos started shooting a classroom.
Believing they had time to get the keys and wait for backup and replenishment equipment, more than a dozen police officers filled the hallway outside the room where Ramos killed 19 children and two teachers, according to McCraw. Twenty-five minutes after police first arrived at the school, people inside the classroom began calling 911 begging for help. It would be another 47 minutes before the last tactical units entered the room, killing the shooter.
“What do I tell my parents? I have nothing to say to my parents, other than what happened. We are not here to defend what happened, we are here to report the incident so they have the truth,” McCraw said Friday. “If I thought it would help, I apologise.”
Despite the Texas sheriff’s shocking admission to law enforcement’s egregious mistakes, Homan—a former director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement who later became The “border tsar” of the Trump administration—Feels like the Uvalde police are getting too much criticism.
“They took what they believed to be an active, mobile shooter and subdued him,” he stated on the Fox News panel program. outnumber. “Until those officers were shot, they did not retreat as I heard some media reports! They hid and held him back, that’s the first thing you do in an active shooter [situation]. ”
Homan later took issue with anyone who criticized law enforcement’s decision to wait more than an hour to storm the classroom to get Ramos out.
“So when people question why the police didn’t knock on the door sooner – you’ve heard the term ‘death funnel’ – they didn’t have any equipment, they didn’t have any training. ,” Homan declared. “So that puts them at risk.”
He then honored the officers as heroes, adding: “I was not a Monday morning attendee. I’m just saying that there are a lot of cops here that have done a lot of things right and have saved a lot of lives overall. “
In addition, Homan got reporters fired for grilling a police commander for answers during Friday’s heated and emotional press conference.
“I think there will be lessons learned and some mistakes have been made. But, you know, until the investigation is over, we’re going to open fire,” he snarled. “And some reporters, the way they shoot these questions at McCraw, I think is a bit unfair.”
Homan concluded his analysis by saying that the officers who responded to the scene were “victims too” while begging viewers to let the investigation end before “throwing the officers under the bus”. .
He concluded: “Officers are not bad guys. The shooter is the bad guy. “
Homan’s top protection for officers comes later Fox News host Lawrence Jones angrily protested Multiple reports suggested that the Uvalde police did not move quickly to neutralize Ramos.
“The suggestion that the AP will issue this report, saying they’re not running towards danger is simply ludicrous,” Jones said on Thursday morning.
