Why Wasn’t the Resource Officer on Campus?

The tragedy last week at a small elementary school, amplified by media outlets and perhaps even the public’s ghoulish fascination with horrific events, has caused widespread grief, dismay, and anger to be felt by millions of people. Most everyone who hears this horrific news is drawn immediately to the question: what can be done!? We’ve all had enough. What can be done?

Ultimately, one man, whose name isn’t worth remembering, was solely responsible for robbing multiple young souls of their lives and futures. There remain, however, questions regarding other glaring errors which had their role in the tragedy. The lives of nineteen kids and two young teachers were endangered by the negligence of multiple people before the despicable cowardly murderer even entered the building, and again when the responding officers failed to act. Considering the weight of such a senseless and gut wrenching loss, we owe it to the deceased and to future generations to continue probing and questioning the shifty and changing information authorities are sharing with us.

By now, most of you have read that the “propped door,” through with the murderous coward entered, was apparently closed again before his entrance, but the automatic locking mechanism malfunctioned. Have investigators found the reason for this malfunction? Is the lock working now? Was the killer’s plan to drive to the elementary school, let off some shots outside the building, and find a propped door for access? Why hadn’t that teacher alerted the others to shut and lock their doors (which was protocol anyway) when she ran back in after seeing a gunman and shutting the faulty door?
Such horrible, random, ill-fated fortune for all of those kids and their families.

Now for the subject mentioned in my title. Where was the school resource officer? Initial reports suggested that the resource officer engaged the monster outside of the school but was unable to stop him.
Now we find out the officer wasn’t even on campus.
Watching this press conference by Steven McCraw brought up a few questions worth pursuing. The body language of the officers behind him once the questions start flying is very very weird. Cagey, in my view. One of the first questions around the 15:15 mark was why wasn’t the resource officer on campus? Watch the two men standing behind and to the right of McCraw. Why do they start whispering to each other when the questions begin. Watch how that other officer suddenly appears and tries to direct the course of the questioning (points toward certain questioners).
When that question about the resource officer is finally presented, around the 25:20 min mark, McCraw stumbles and stutters for the first real time in the conference and moves on as fast as he can.
All we can know is that the school resource officer was not on campus; why he wasn’t there was as yet unknown.
As far as I know, this question still hasn’t been answered.

In other news, the cowardly chief officer on the scene who held 18 armed officers back to wait for more gear has been sworn in to the city council. Why didn’t he resign? He has no business leading the community after his failure to protect the most vulnerable.

This was a horrific failure on so many levels. I weep for all the lives forever changed or stolen. We can’t let this negligence go unexamined.
Why the obfuscation? Why the inaction? Why had the resource officer abandoned his post?

I remember back in high school around 1973 there was a security officer stationed at the main entrance to the public school I went to, you had to show a school ID to enter the building .

It makes you wonder if “they” are encouraging mentally unstable people to commit mass murder?

Because the 'authorities' are in on it. This event was planned by tptb. They use easy to manipulate teens to execute these shootings , so they (tptb) can now bring in restrictions against the 2nd.

originally posted by: ancientlight
Because the 'authorities' are in on it. This event was planned by tptb. They use easy to manipulate teens to execute these shootings , so they (tptb) can now bring in restrictions against the 2nd.

That's something to seriously think on. It wouldn't take much to identify troubled youth with a quick look through school records.
Identify low academic scores, look for a history of subverting authority and inability to get along with others and you have plenty of candidates to choose from and work with.

a reply to: zosimov

... In other news, the cowardly chief officer on the scene who held 18 armed officers back to wait for more gear has been sworn in to the city council. Why didn’t he resign? He has no business leading the community after his failure to protect the most vulnerable....

You know the game Zos :

For us : no good deed goes unpunished.
For them : do what your Superiors™ order you to do : get a Promotion™ .

The Chief-Officer™ has Masters™ to obey, and it ain't the citizens.

a reply to: zosimov

Bar-doors use an allen key to hold the bar in which retracts the pin, or allow it to automatically lock. Also the bar can slide towards the pin to prop the door open. There is no mystery on how the door works. Either the bar was slid to the side or the pin was retracted because someone used the allen key to keep it unlocked with the bar pressed in. The real question is who they are covering for and why.

In regards to the resource officer are we sure he was even employed at this point? In our metro over 500 teachers quit this year (normally this number is about 25 to 30) because the students run the urban schools now since they removed the resource officers.

a reply to: zosimov

Maybe he was at lunch? Everyone needs one of those. Maybe he had to go home during that lunch to take care of a disabled spouse. Perhaps in the hundreds of other uneventful shifts in this school, going to lunch was another uneventful activity...until it isn't.

This is a valid question but keep in mind there are reasonable answers to them.

a reply to: InwardDiver

That does make sense. But surely if he was on lunch and the school was under attack he would drop everything to get back to his generally boring job.