Uh-oh! Failures of government can no longer be handled by pretending it never happened!
Reports of armed intruder prompt lockdown at El Mirage school; suspect arrested
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By Staff, 12 August 2022
EL MIRAGE, Ariz. – All students are safe after an El Mirage elementary school went on lockdown for reports of an armed man on campus.
Staff members at Thompson Ranch Elementary School had called police at around 10:30 a.m. Friday morning. The school went into lockdown for several hours as police tried to find the reported gunman, but no one was found.
“Today we received a call of a man with a gun at the school,” El Mirage PD said in a statement. “PD responded and never found the person or could confirm a subject with a gun.”
Police later said in a news conference that the suspect fled the scene and is described as a Black or Hispanic man with a tattoo on his forehead. He was last seen wearing a yellow shirt and black shorts. The suspect, according to a statement released by officials with Dysart Unified School District, has been arrested.
His identity being withheld suggests he’s <18yo. Yellow & black clothing suggests gang colors, although I can’t confirm.
A “suspicious package” was also located, and children in the area were evacuated. No details were released about the contents of the package.
Probably drugs. This has every indicator of a drug deal gone wrong. Yoofs wearing gang colors, suspicious packages, no witnesses except an unfortunately nearby high-security facility in which somebody looked out a window and hit the panic alarm.
Children were later brought to their parents, and police said that there is no active threat.
No active threat to the kids, at least. Parents were not so lucky:
According to police, three parents were arrested for allegedly trying to force their way onto school campus during the lockdown.
Investigators said parents were not allowed on campus during the lockdown, and as a result of a physical confrontation to parents, police used a stun device on a man and a woman. One of the three arrested could face felony charges because he had a gun on him as he was trying to get on campus to get his child.
SkyFOX captured video of a person being carted out of campus on a stretcher. Police said he was one of the people who had been shot with the stun gun.
Wherever would parents have gotten the idea to charge through a heavily armed police cordon into an active-shooter situation in order to keep their kid safe? Uvalde, of course. I understand why cop culture is insular–factors from crazy work hours to most interactions with the general public naturally being hostile–but if society has reached the point at which parents are willing to charge tactical police into live-fire situations, then it’s obvious that closing ranks and doubling down on controlling the situation is not going to reduce the tension.
This is obviously a trust issue… and it’s been a long time coming. The Leftists have been allowed to turn our schools into Marxist horror factories, and the police do nothing until the kids lash out… like they never did before the Leftists came along.
Which is it? Are police the avenging angels of society or the paid thugs of GAE? Only police can answer that question and they can’t have it both ways anymore.
In the short term, closure on Uvalde would restore some trust. People need to see the perps punished, which would begin with the POS officer-in-charge… “I forgot muh radio”… and end with tracing the Deep State actors to a showdown. People obviously are not going to forget Uvalde if the authorities just pretend it didn’t happen.
There’s a lot of that these days. Catastrophic government heavyhandedness and incompetence, then in the aftermath, they try to just memory-hole it. Hello, Covid-19 medical tyranny! “Take the vaxx, you misinformed dissident. You’re killing Grandma if you don’t take the vaxx. You’ll lose your job if you don’t take the vaxx. We’ll put you on a list and toss you in a quarantine camp and ban you from travel and… and… we now advise that the vaxx is optional. Hey, did you hear about Johnny Depp’s huge lawsuit?”
Screw. You. Authorities.
I cannot un-see. I cannot let it go. Justice demands closure, not omerta.
It seems that some parents in El Mirage, Arizona agree with me.
In the long-term, police need to decide where their loyalties lie. The State has openly chosen to be the enemy of the people. Police were able to serve the State while being trusted by the people thanks to short American attention spans, but that’s not happening any longer. The damage the State is doing to us is more than we are able to forget.
I keep saying that anyone who chooses to become or remain an AGW in today’s sociopolitical environment is a moron with a death wish. Unfortunately, it seems that most AGWs are morons. They keep the costume and the badges on because they’re incapable of doing anything gainful in the private sector for a living. It’s not getting any smarter or more competent out there, so expect most of these brainstemming oxygen thieves to keep hiding behind badges until the bitter end.
So it wasn’t a mirage? (s/)
Maybe the police were busy downloading Punisher logos and couldn’t just rush in.
The colors could be school or sportsball?
The memory hole is full but hell is empty.