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The arrests happened after police in El Mirage locked down an elementary school after a report that someone tried to get inside a building and ran off.
Three parents were arrested, two of whom were tased, during a confrontation outside an Arizona elementary school that had been locked down over a report of someone with a gun Friday, El Mirage police said.
Thompson Ranch Elementary School was locked down after a report around 10:30 a.m. that someone who appeared to have a handgun had tried to open a locked door and ran off, El Mirage police Lt. Jimmy Chavez said.
Outside the school in Arizona on Friday, the three parents were arrested as several parents said they were going to go onto the locked-down campus to protect their children, Chavez said.
The other two, a man and a woman, were tased and arrested after they came to his aid, he said.
“They were physically attempting to get into campus, and they were getting into physical altercations with our officers,” Chavez said. “They were forcefully pushing onto the officers trying to get on campus.”
originally posted by: pteridine
a reply to: infolurker
It would seem that the police should have been inside the building, in force, to protect the children. Are they all stupid or just cowards like Uvalde officers, and others? If anything happened to my children as a result of police inaction, I would hold the police commander personally responsible.
originally posted by: pteridine
a reply to: infolurker
It would seem that the police should have been inside the building, in force, to protect the children. Are they all stupid or just cowards like Uvalde officers, and others? If anything happened to my children as a result of police inaction, I would hold the police commander personally responsible.
originally posted by: AaarghZombies
originally posted by: pteridine
a reply to: infolurker
It would seem that the police should have been inside the building, in force, to protect the children. Are they all stupid or just cowards like Uvalde officers, and others? If anything happened to my children as a result of police inaction, I would hold the police commander personally responsible.
Yes, but if you'd run into the building and been mistaken for the gunman, your kids could be down a parent.
The police clear areas like this for a reason.
originally posted by: JIMC5499
a reply to: pteridine
I'm not dumping on you, this just seems like a good place to put this.
I occasionally visit a site called "Reason.com". Right after the shooting in Texas they were still running articles about getting the Police out of the schools.
The school was "locked down". What part of that didn't those parents understand. The objective of the Police is to protect the school until they are certain that there is no threat. The best way to do that is to setup a perimeter OUTSIDE the school. How are the Police supposed to know if these people actually have a child in the school? In my opinion the Police acted correctly here.
Personally I'm against Schools, Colleges and Universities having their own Police Departments. Regular Police answer to the Local Governments. These others answer to Administrators. I've actually seen University Police act against Local and State Police because they were following the Administration's agenda.
originally posted by: pteridine
The police are not there to protect the school from the outside. They are there to protect the children who are inside who are being attacked. Inside is where the police should be heading immediately, not waiting for layers of backup. One officer would have made a difference at Uvalde.