Marshals handcuffed Mother trying to save Children at Uvalde Massacre

Police did not only delay their own response to sending tactical teams into the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas during a school shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead. Law enforcement also prevented others from acting to save the children. Federal marshals prevented parents from entering the school while they could all hear shots being fired inside.

Shots fired outside school for 12 minutes before gunman entered

The Wall Street Journal reported that the alleged shooter fired his weapon for twelve (12) minutes outside the school before entering it. The WSJ also reported that as the police stood down, one mother sprinted into the school for her children while law enforcement tried to stop her.

(Article below by Libby Emmons republished from ThePostMillennial.com)

Angeli Rose Gomez drove 40 miles to the school upon hearing of the shooting, and she arrived, said “The police were doing nothing. They were just standing outside the fence. They weren’t going in there or running anywhere.”

Newsweek: Parents accuse Police of Waiting Outside during Uvalde Shooting

While state officials said that police were at the school mere moments after the teen gunman entered the school, barricading himself in a classroom and opening fire on young students, they also said that officers were unable to gain access to the classroom.

Gomez said that she was only one of several parents at the school demanding that officers stop waiting around and go into the school. It was then that “federal marshals approached her and put her in handcuffs,” the Journal reports.

Mother says fathers pepper-sprayed and thrown to ground by law enforcement standing down

The marshals told her she was being arrested for “intervening in an active investigation.” Gomez was able to convince local law enforcement to free her, but said she also saw a father pepper-sprayed, and another tackled and thrown to the ground by law enforcement as he tried to go to the school. His 10-year-old daughter was massacred in the slaughter.

Once freed, Gomez moved away from the crowd, broke into a run, jumped a fence, and ran inside to rescue her children. “She sprinted out of the school with them,” the Journal reports.

Shooter fired for 40 minutes or more while law enforcement stood down

The shooter had 40 minutes to an hour before law enforcement went in to neutralize him. He was eventually shot and killed by a border patrol agent who also sustained injuries.

Reports on social media showed footage of other parents trying to urge law enforcement to act, and to try to get into the school themselves. Police kept parents out.

A woman in one clip can be heard yelling “Shoot him or something!”

A man can be heard to say, “They’re all just f*cking parked outside, dude. They need to go in there.”

Police had set up a perimeter around the building while the shooter was actively massacring small children.

Children who were in the school at the time and survived the shooting recounted their own stories of horror. One boy hid under a table-clothed table while the shooter killed children in their class. A young girl heard the shooter say, “What do I have here?” as he opened the classroom door and began firing.