In reality, the varsity’s officer was not on campus on the time of the taking pictures. When he did arrive shortly after listening to a “911 call about a man with a gun,” he drove previous the shooter, who was hunkered behind a parked automobile on the time, in accordance to Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw. The officer then mistook a trainer for the shooter.
Olivarez incorrectly acknowledged that the shooter “was wearing some type of body armor” in an interview on Tucker Carlson Tonight. He was truly carrying a “plate carrier vest that did not have ballistic plates inside of it,” Axios reported.
Olivarez additionally falsely claimed that responding officers put themselves between the shooter and the youngsters. “There was multiple law enforcement officers that responded to the scene. All of those officers are heroes. They put their lives on the line between the shooter and these children to prevent any further loss of life,” Olivarez mentioned on Fox’s America’s Newsroom. In actuality, the shooter had already barricaded himself into two adjoining lecture rooms full of college students by the point the officers arrived.
The police, together with the Texas Department of Safety, repeatedly lied to the general public after the taking pictures in Uvalde. There’s each purpose to imagine the division is doing the identical now when it comes to migrants. But Fox News depends on sensationalist reporting about the border, nearly at all times sourced from cops, to present a basis for his or her racist programming.