A teacher wounded in last month’s school shooting in Texas slammed first responders as “cowards” for standing by outside his classroom while the gunman killed all 11 of his young students as they tried to play dead.
“You have a bulletproof vest, I had nothing. You’re supposed to protect and serve. There is no excuse for their actions and I will never forgive them. I will never forgive them,” Arnulfo Reyes said in an interview with “Good Morning America” Tuesday from a hospital, where he’s recovering from multiple gunshot wounds.
The Robb Elementary School teacher said his class was watching a movie following a student awards ceremony around 11:30 a.m. on May 24 when they heard gunshots. He directed the kids to get under a table, just as they were trained, and told them to “act like you’re asleep.”
When he turned around, he said the gunman was standing in his classroom and shot him several times.
“I told myself, I told my kids to […]
What does it say about the culture, and specifically police culture, that the person in command and promoted to the position was so cautious as to not confront an active shooter? What does it say about the culture that this individual has not been relieved of command? What will occur to the individuals who disobeyed commands to confront the shooter? We have a culture in this country which rewards incompetence and insulates these leaders from the consequences of their decisions. This is one of the reasons why we are in such bad straights.