The Charlie Kirk Show - Inaction in Uvalde: Did the Police Fail the 19 Children?

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, it's in the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:00:01.000 A bombshell report shows that police officers waited 40 minutes to an hour before going in to stop the gunmen.

00:00:09.000 Now, this is an unfolding story in real time.

00:00:12.000 And if it's true, then a lot of the commentary that we express on this program remains the same.

00:00:19.000 But it shows that the timeline currently, that everything we were told previously about the police officers trying to stop him from entering is just not true.

00:00:27.000 There was no school resource officer that tried to stop the gunman from going in.

00:00:31.000 There were a couple cops, I think, that did go in to try to neutralize him initially, and they were shot at, but they were not killed.

00:00:39.000 But then there is this inexplicable 40-minute to one-hour gap where parents were tased and were prevented from going in to try to save their children's lives where the gunmen just had a total field day.

00:00:52.000 I want you to think about that.

00:00:54.000 And I have some pretty choice words for cops that sit idly by and allow the killing to happen and do nothing.

00:01:00.000 Who gave those orders?

00:01:01.000 It makes my blood boil.

00:01:03.000 This is not an attack against police officers.

00:01:05.000 We love police officers.

00:01:07.000 We think police officers are heroes.

00:01:09.000 But if police officers act like cowards, they should be called cowards.

00:01:13.000 The news report is lining up to show that there was a one-hour gap between the gunman walking in and the gunman being neutralized.

00:01:23.000 That is unacceptable.

00:01:24.000 Lives could have been saved, and someone needs to be held accountable for that.

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00:01:47.000 I want to reemphasize: this is not an attack on police officers or the profession.

00:01:51.000 It's an indictment against cowardice and inaction and paralysis in the bystander effect.

00:01:55.000 I know we've gotten some choice emails from many of you saying, Charlie, you weren't there.

00:01:59.000 You're right.

00:01:59.000 Charlie, you don't know how you would act?

00:02:01.000 You're right.

00:02:02.000 But I will say this: 40 minutes to an hour of inaction while children are getting slaughtered is totally, completely unacceptable and should not be tolerated.

00:02:10.000 Well, police officers were tasing parents while their children were getting murdered.

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00:03:12.000 But I want to give an update from what has happened in Uvalde, Texas.

00:03:16.000 Now, these reports, as they come out, they are usually inaccurate.

00:03:21.000 The rule of kind of breaking news is that it's more likely to be wrong early than right early.

00:03:27.000 But as time goes on, usually accuracy starts to improve.

00:03:33.000 So there is a new report out that is shocking.

00:03:38.000 And it starts to make sense as to how this evil individual was able to kill so many people and why a border tactical person had to intervene.

00:03:52.000 Now, before going any further, I want to say police officers are heroes.

00:03:55.000 They're wonderful.

00:03:56.000 But like any profession, there are cowards and there are bad police officers, there's bad teachers, there's bad everything.

00:04:04.000 We've said this all along.

00:04:05.000 We do not indict an entire profession.

00:04:07.000 However, there is a theme that seems to happen whenever things start to get very chaotic and very consequential, whether it be Columbine or Parkland, there is a theme of the bystander syndrome.

00:04:22.000 Now, you can learn a lot about somebody when shots start to get firing, when shots are firing, when the adrenaline starts to pump.

00:04:30.000 Unfortunately, a vast majority of people stand and do nothing.

00:04:35.000 It is the rare and the courageous person that springs into action and defends the innocent.

00:04:43.000 A new report is so beyond shocking, it will take your breath away.

00:04:48.000 Texas shooter barricaded himself for 40 minutes as police waited.

00:04:56.000 The shooter who killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School, I'm reading from Breitbart.com in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday, reportedly barricaded himself inside as police waited outside for 40 minutes.

00:05:09.000 According to people present, terrified parents were yelling at police officers to charge the school for 40 minutes until a border patrol team finally took him down.

00:05:19.000 So this is what never made sense to me, this entire story.

00:05:25.000 As I said to our team, I said yesterday, why did a border patrol agent have to go on his off duty to go intervene and to go neutralize the situation and the shooter?

00:05:35.000 Why did it take a border patrol agent?

00:05:37.000 Where obviously this is not their jurisdiction.

00:05:39.000 I mean, Uvalde is close to the border, but it's not on the border.

00:05:43.000 And even so, Border Patrol is not usually called to go solve or intervene with mass shooting incidents.

00:05:50.000 That never made any sense to me. 0.98

00:05:51.000 Well, that makes perfect sense. 0.99

00:05:53.000 That the local police were full of cowards. 0.96

00:05:56.000 And that's not to say that they've been cowards in everything they've done. 0.65

00:05:59.000 I'm sure a lot of these police officers have been courageous in other situations.

00:06:02.000 It just so happens the stakes were very high here that they did not want to die and they sat idly by while children got massacred.

00:06:11.000 Now, maybe this report isn't accurate.

00:06:12.000 Maybe this report is being exaggerated.

00:06:14.000 But it certainly makes sense with all the other facts that we know and that we have available.

00:06:19.000 This fits the narrative.

00:06:22.000 Parents reportedly were shouting, go in there, go in there.

00:06:27.000 He shoots himself and barricades himself, and he takes his time.

00:06:31.000 There was a 30 to 45 minute lull.

00:06:33.000 So it is conceivable that if the police officers and the cops would have done their job and would have had an ounce of courage and would have went into the school and tried to intervene, maybe 19 kids and two teachers would not be dead.

00:06:52.000 Now, again, this happened at the Columbine shooting.

00:06:54.000 This was one of the most controversial takeaways from the Columbine shooting in 1999, April 20th, 1999.

00:07:02.000 Now, the police officers at the time were told, their excuse was, which was technically true, that police officers, according to Colorado state law, were not allowed in schools.

00:07:13.000 There was a big push to try to keep police officers out of schools because it intimidated kids.

00:07:19.000 And I'm not really sure the main reason for it.

00:07:25.000 But one of the more horrific accounts of the Columbine tragedy and massacre is most of the killing happened in the library in Columbine.

00:07:34.000 And police officers were just about 50 feet away and listened and watched as the two maniacs went aisle by aisle and killed person by person.

00:07:47.000 And they did nothing.

00:07:49.000 Similarly, at the Parkland shooting in Marjorie Stoneman Douglas, you might remember those famous images of the sheriff or the police officer or the school resource officer standing outside and doing nothing.

00:08:00.000 Now, the law usually goes on the side of the police officer here.

00:08:05.000 I believe these police officers should be discharged and should be kind of taken off the force and go to jail.

00:08:16.000 But usually the law goes on their side.

00:08:18.000 And, you know, we've gotten some emails because I commented on this on social media.

00:08:22.000 And people said, Charlie, no police officer has to take a bullet for another person.

00:08:26.000 That is not their job. 0.97

00:08:28.000 You're probably technically true. 1.00

00:08:29.000 That's probably technically correct, but you're a coward and you have blood on your hands. 0.99

00:08:32.000 There is no other argument. 0.97

00:08:34.000 Whether you're a police officer or a plumber, if you have a weapon and you watch or hear somebody else getting killed or murdered, I believe you have a moral obligation to intervene and to do whatever you can.

00:08:48.000 So these police officers were shocked into paralysis.

00:08:51.000 They didn't know what to do.

00:08:54.000 And what's amazing, and we're going to find out the facts.

00:08:56.000 Maybe it was only 10 minutes.

00:08:57.000 Maybe it was 15 minutes.

00:08:58.000 Maybe it was 20 minutes.

00:08:59.000 But I want you to think for a second.

00:09:03.000 40 minutes.

00:09:06.000 And what were the Texas police doing?

00:09:10.000 The Texas police were stopping parents from rushing in to save their children from the shooter.

00:09:14.000 The police were preventing other citizens from stopping the shooter.

00:09:18.000 So the police, instead of actually doing their job, which was that I have a moral obligation to protect the weak, we always said the strong have a moral obligation to protect the weak.

00:09:27.000 No, the police were preventing parents from going in.

00:09:29.000 Let me be very clear.

00:09:31.000 If there was someone that I knew in there, I would take a gun and I'll tell the police officer, have a nice day.

00:09:36.000 And I would walk in and do something.

00:09:38.000 I would hope I would do something like that.

00:09:39.000 I would hope.

00:09:41.000 I would pray I would do something.

00:09:42.000 Let me correct myself.

00:09:43.000 Who knows?

00:09:44.000 You know, when things really start to get consequential, people that talk a good game sometimes go into a position of paralysis.

00:09:51.000 But I would hope to believe that someone wouldn't be able to hold me back.

00:09:56.000 I know a lot of people in my circle would definitely charge this school.

00:09:59.000 But why are the police officers actually helping the shooter?

00:10:03.000 That's right.

00:10:04.000 I'm saying that.

00:10:04.000 The police officers, according to these reports, were actually helping the shooter.

00:10:11.000 The footage captured by Hugo Cervantes showed numerous parents confronting the heavily armed officers who set up a perimeter around Robb Elementary School.

00:10:19.000 The video shared online captured the growing frustration of parents and family members who were seen yelling and screaming at the heavily armed officers who were doing nothing standing outside the building. 0.65

00:10:27.000 Cowards. 0.96

00:10:28.000 All of them. 1.00

00:10:29.000 Fire them all. 0.87

00:10:32.000 Sitting around doing paperwork.

00:10:35.000 Grabbing the footage also showed several officers pinning down a man near a school bus.

00:10:41.000 What the F are you doing to him?

00:10:42.000 Let him up, someone has heard saying.

00:10:45.000 So the police officers were more worried about parents going in to go do the right thing than saving the lives of children.

00:10:52.000 One officer was so distracted keeping people at bay, he's seen holding a taser in the clip as parents called on the officers to charge into the school. 0.84

00:11:02.000 I love police officers, but I hate cowards.

00:11:05.000 And I hope every single one of these people that stood idly by while children were getting massacred go to jail for a very long time. 0.84

00:11:11.000 They won't.

00:11:12.000 The courts have been clear on their interpretation that police officers can do nothing while blood is being spilled.

00:11:21.000 I think that's wrong.

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00:12:30.000 I'm a big fan of police officers.

00:12:33.000 I think they do a wonderful job.

00:12:36.000 But what happened in Uvalde, Texas is unbelievable.

00:12:41.000 You should be familiar with the bystander effect or bystander apathy.

00:12:45.000 It's a social psychological theory and phenomenon that basically shows that people are less likely to offer help to a victim when there are other people present.

00:12:54.000 That when there's a crowd, they all just kind of have this group paralysis.

00:12:59.000 It's an extraordinary psychological phenomenon where people just fail to help when there's an emergency.

00:13:06.000 For 40 minutes, you know that a shooter has gone into an elementary school and you hear the fire, the gunfire, and you hear the screams.

00:13:14.000 And what are the police officers focused on in Uvalde?

00:13:18.000 They're focused on the parents.

00:13:21.000 They're focused on making sure the parents don't go in there.

00:13:24.000 How did we get this messed up in our country?

00:13:26.000 Let me tell you what happened at the University of Texas school shooting, otherwise known as, I believe, the Clock Tower shooting back in the 1960s or the tower shooting.

00:13:39.000 It was a different country back then.

00:13:42.000 And what happened is so many civilians came from the hills and they came from the surrounding area that when this nut case, a Marine veteran took rifles and weapons to the observation deck, it took a bunch of civilians who reached this guy and shot him dead.

00:14:04.000 He injured 31 people and shot 14 people.

00:14:09.000 And it would have been even more if it wasn't for the civilians intervening.

00:14:14.000 It was a different country back then.

00:14:17.000 Remember to the Florida shooting in Parkland, Florida?

00:14:19.000 Same exact thing.

00:14:20.000 They stood idly by.

00:14:21.000 Same thing in Columbine.

00:14:23.000 The bystander effect is a very real thing. 0.82

00:14:25.000 And make no mistake, the bystander effect can be a metaphor also for regular citizens sitting idly by when CRT and transgenderism is taught in our schools. 0.54

00:14:35.000 It's easy to have an excuse to do nothing when you think all these other people are around. 0.80

00:14:40.000 Now, if all these reports are correct, which seems to be true, then there's no excuse.

00:14:47.000 Now, we're getting lots of emails.

00:14:48.000 I want your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:14:51.000 But what's amazing is that Border Patrol came in, a border tactical unit, who have no jurisdiction to go into schools.

00:14:59.000 And we'll find out why exactly they were given the green light.

00:15:02.000 And they went in.

00:15:03.000 Now, I want to know what orders were given to these police officers, but I'll be very honest, though.

00:15:08.000 Who cares?

00:15:10.000 Defy the order.

00:15:11.000 Go save lives.

00:15:14.000 And someone emailed us, well, Charlie, they could go to jail if they defied orders.

00:15:19.000 Okay?

00:15:20.000 Go to jail when you save kids' lives.

00:15:22.000 I guarantee you the public opinion would be on your side.

00:15:25.000 You're trying to tell me that you would get indicted by a local district attorney because you said, yes, yes, Your Honor, or yes, to the state of Texas or to the county.

00:15:37.000 I did go into the school, and I did put my life on the line, and I did neutralize the shooter, and I was told not to, but I'm glad I did.

00:15:45.000 Is this another example of kind of just the over-litigious nature of America where everyone is afraid to do something?

00:15:51.000 Possibly.

00:15:52.000 This is clip 94.

00:15:53.000 We had to blur out the swear words.

00:15:55.000 This will get your heart pumping.

00:15:59.000 This shows police officers restraining parents from going to save their kids' lives instead of going into the schools.

00:16:07.000 The police being the cowards of the situation.

00:16:11.000 Not all police are cowards, but these police officers are the best example of a cowardly group of people I've seen in a long time. 0.94

00:16:18.000 Play cut 94. 0.59

00:16:38.000 The police thought the parents were the bigger threat.

00:16:41.000 After all of these shootings that have happened over the last couple years, we still do not have a standard operating procedure to be able to intervene.

00:16:50.000 40 minutes.

00:16:51.000 And this goes to, and I asked our team, how on earth did he have the time to kill people for 40 minutes?

00:16:57.000 The police gave him the time.

00:16:58.000 The police created a perimeter for the shooter.

00:17:02.000 And we're going to hear in the coming days and weeks, an investigation is ongoing.

00:17:06.000 Okay, all of that.

00:17:07.000 That's all bureaucratic nonsense.

00:17:09.000 Very simple.

00:17:10.000 People that were sworn to protect, that had a badge, did nothing.

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00:18:21.000 We are getting a tsunami of emails.

00:18:24.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.

00:18:26.000 Every single person, except one who doesn't necessarily disagree.

00:18:30.000 They're just trying to add a different kind of wrinkle to the argument is agreeing that the police, I mean, there's one of these emails is just, hello, Charlie, this story is infuriating to me.

00:18:44.000 Five exclamation points.

00:18:45.000 Police are trained to handle both armed and unarmed perpetrators.

00:18:48.000 There was, in all caps, no excuse for failure to act. 1.00

00:18:52.000 Fire these worthless swine. 1.00

00:18:54.000 They're not worth the money nor the respect of the citizens of the small town. 0.99

00:18:57.000 The parents should band together and pursue legal action against all the cops present.

00:19:02.000 Also, get to who, if anyone, and the police brass prevented the cops from entering the school and at least minimizing some deaths.

00:19:09.000 Also, if possible, all the cops who were present, restraining the parents and doing nothing otherwise, should be punished. 1.00

00:19:14.000 Shame the bastards. 1.00

00:19:16.000 Can I say that on FCC? 1.00

00:19:18.000 I think that's okay.

00:19:19.000 I think that's one of the ones that's fine.

00:19:20.000 Keep up the great work.

00:19:22.000 Greg.

00:19:24.000 Another one says this.

00:19:27.000 And I want to make sure I say this anonymously because they asked me to do that, but it's a pretty amazing email.

00:19:34.000 Let me try to find this here.

00:19:36.000 They work for a federal agency.

00:19:38.000 Okay.

00:19:39.000 I work for a federal agency.

00:19:40.000 I can't say which, but we've done active shooter drills.

00:19:42.000 And our policy is to get inside and stop shooting as soon as possible.

00:19:46.000 Not waiting for SWAT, no waiting for backup.

00:19:48.000 Go in fast and engage the gunman to the best of your ability.

00:19:53.000 The police officers created a perimeter.

00:19:57.000 They unintentionally, I'm not saying they intentionally did it, but their cowardice did help the shooter.

00:20:04.000 The shooter got more time to be able to kill more kids because of what the police did.

00:20:13.000 With us right now is Representative Mark Green.

00:20:18.000 I want to bring in a guest who's trying to save our kids through multiple pieces of legislation in Congress.

00:20:23.000 Representative, welcome to the program.

00:20:25.000 We're talking about the shooting in Texas, and we're pretty fired up and, quite honestly, shocked that the police officers stood there and did nothing for 40 minutes while this maniac, demonic gunman massacred these children.

00:20:39.000 What's your reaction?

00:20:41.000 Well, obviously, shock and dismay, and it's a tragedy, very, very heart-rending.

00:20:48.000 I'm a parent, but I'm also a combat veteran Iraq and Afghanistan, Iraq twice with a special operations task force.

00:20:57.000 So, you know, those drills that the law enforcement guys work on, they need to execute those drills.

00:21:03.000 I want to be careful to not bash them too much, but definitely we've got to dig in and find out exactly what happened.

00:21:10.000 Because you'll remember in Florida and Parkland, there were some significant mistakes that were made by the law enforcement there.

00:21:17.000 In fact, in one case in Florida, the law enforcement officer actually went the other way away from the gun, which is not what's supposed to happen.

00:21:24.000 So we've got to dig in, look at every piece of this, and find out what happened.

00:21:28.000 Yeah, well, according to reports, they, and maybe the reports could be inaccurate.

00:21:31.000 We've said that, but based on parent testimony, they sat and did nothing for 40 minutes and actually were restraining parents with tasers while the gunman was able to do whatever the gunman wanted to do.

00:21:42.000 That's all.

00:21:43.000 All right, tell us about your effort.

00:21:46.000 Yeah, and if the reports are correct, I agree with you.

00:21:48.000 We don't want to dive too much into it, but based on all the other circumstantial evidence, it seems to be correct.

00:21:52.000 Tell us about your effort in Congress, which is to save our kids from fentanyl, one of the most horrific things happening in our country right now.

00:22:00.000 Tell us about it.

00:22:01.000 Yeah, we need to prioritize a lot of things on how we protect children.

00:22:05.000 And of course, you know, Texas has shown us some things we can do.

00:22:09.000 There was no SRO in that school.

00:22:12.000 There, we, you know, metal detectors where they're necessary, all those kinds of things.

00:22:16.000 But another thing that's really threatening our children is fentanyl.

00:22:20.000 And we've seen a massive increase with the failure to secure the southern border.

00:22:26.000 And so what we're going to be doing in the coming weeks is just educating folks on the impacts of fentanyl.

00:22:31.000 I'm also an emergency medicine physician, so I can talk about it from a clinical standpoint, what we see in the emergency department.

00:22:38.000 And we're going to launch some efforts to just educate Americans on what's happening as a result of this failure to secure our southern border.

00:22:45.000 If you look at it from a purely supply-demand situation, $98 was the price of a point of fentanyl.

00:22:52.000 Fentanyl sold by the point as opposed to Graham's cocaine.

00:22:56.000 And it was $98 a point January 21.

00:23:00.000 It's now down.

00:23:01.000 My sheriffs are telling me $20 something a point.

00:23:03.000 So that tells me the supply of fentanyl in the United States has skyrocketed.

00:23:08.000 Other indicators are the tens of thousands of additional deaths to fentanyl overdose.

00:23:12.000 Now the number one cause of death for people 18 to 45 years of age.

00:23:17.000 It's unacceptable, and we have to do something about that too.

00:23:20.000 So can you talk about China's role in this? 0.88

00:23:22.000 China is the manufacturer and the distributor, and they do it through the cartel.

00:23:26.000 So this is kind of a multiple country issue that people don't always recognize and realize. 0.62

00:23:32.000 And then it comes into our suburban communities.

00:23:34.000 So, parents need to be aware of this.

00:23:36.000 They need to understand their kids are playing around with stuff they shouldn't be playing around with.

00:23:40.000 But talk about China's role in this, which is oftentimes glossed over.

00:23:46.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:23:47.000 So, China is making the precursors for this.

00:23:50.000 And in many cases, they make the finished product. 0.68

00:23:52.000 They ship it to the cartels, and then the cartels bring it across the southern border.

00:23:56.000 There's also been some, some minimal, mail directly to the United States.

00:24:00.000 We've confronted China on this issue, and they tell us they can't find the fentanyl manufacturers.

00:24:05.000 Now, we all know that China is probably the greatest surveillance state in the world or in the history of man.

00:24:12.000 They know what everything, every single citizen in China is doing. 0.62

00:24:15.000 They've tracked you on your phone.

00:24:17.000 We know that that's not true.

00:24:20.000 They know where this is coming from.

00:24:21.000 They're at a minimum complicit.

00:24:24.000 And so here it is coming across our southern border, destabilizing our country and killing Americans.

00:24:30.000 We have to stop it on that level, too.

00:24:32.000 So let's talk about kind of the opposition in Congress from this.

00:24:36.000 Why is this not a bipartisan effort?

00:24:39.000 This shouldn't be politicized to be able to say we need to restrain the amount of supply of fentanyl coming into our communities.

00:24:45.000 You know, I'm in Indiana right now, and it seems as if kind of middle Appalachia to the central Midwest is disproportionately affected by the fentanyl crisis for multiple reasons.

00:24:55.000 One of them being that fentanyl is kind of the last drug on the kind of regimen, you would say, of illegal drugs post-opioid exposure.

00:25:07.000 And the muscular class is overly exposed to opioid use.

00:25:12.000 You have a back injury at work, you get on opioids from your doctor, and then eventually you start to get to more and more extreme highs, which then will lead you to fentanyl.

00:25:20.000 Why are the Democrats not on board with this enthusiastically?

00:25:24.000 What would your speculation be for that?

00:25:27.000 Well, I think their quest is this open border that allows what they believe will be empowering votes for themselves.

00:25:35.000 I mean, I can't think of any other reason. 0.99

00:25:37.000 We can go through all of the negative effects on our country from the economic impact to the jobs that are taken away from low socioeconomic people in the United States, from the migrants that come across. 1.00

00:25:51.000 We can go through list after list after list. 0.99

00:25:53.000 MS-13, the drugs, of course, being one reason why they should close and secure our southern border, but they refuse to do so.

00:26:00.000 The only logical conclusion is they want votes and they think these people will come here and have children and those children will vote Democrat.

00:26:08.000 Unfortunately, I don't think that's true.

00:26:11.000 Joe Biden's approval rating amongst Latinos in America right now is the lowest demographic in the country at 26%. 1.00

00:26:18.000 But regardless, they think that's their future. 0.75

00:26:23.000 So they don't care about the collateral damage that's caused by the open border.

00:26:28.000 They want to be empowered.

00:26:30.000 And it's consistent with everything the Democrats do, whether it's House Resolution 1 that shifts elections to D.C., stacking the Supreme Court, D.C. statehood, every single thing they're moving for or they're trying to advance in Washington, D.C. is to empower themselves into perpetuity.

00:26:44.000 And so that's their policy on the southern border.

00:26:48.000 So going into November, really quick, as we kind of close out this segment, what do you think are the top messages that Republicans need to bring into their districts and into their states right now?

00:27:02.000 So in states, it's different for each state.

00:27:05.000 I believe in my state, the border is the number one issue.

00:27:09.000 In many states, inflation in the economy.

00:27:12.000 And very clearly, Democrat policies have both decreased the supply of goods through their supply chain management and, of course, increased the price of the flood of cash.

00:27:24.000 So, the price of meat, we're just going to keep pushing the theme that it's costing you $7,000 more a year as an American to live in America because of the policies, the economic policies of the left.

00:27:36.000 And we'll also push, of course, the southern border and the chaos, the instability that that creates.

00:27:42.000 And then, of course, foreign policy.

00:27:44.000 We see what's happening internationally.

00:27:46.000 Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine after he saw the failure in Afghanistan.

00:27:50.000 So, it's just a weak president, both internationally and domestically, that's resulted in this crisis moment in history.

00:27:58.000 Well, very good.

00:27:58.000 Representative Mark Green, thank you for your leadership.

00:28:01.000 Great state of Tennessee.

00:28:01.000 I love Tennessee.

00:28:02.000 I was just in the eastern part.

00:28:04.000 God bless you.

00:28:06.000 Can't wait.

00:28:06.000 Thank you so much.

00:28:08.000 Yep.

00:28:09.000 Great.

00:28:10.000 Everybody, continue to email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:28:12.000 We're getting an overwhelming amount of emails right now.

00:28:17.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.

00:28:19.000 And I just want to get your opinion.

00:28:22.000 Do you think that police officers that are armed have a moral obligation not to sit for 40 minutes while children get massacred?

00:28:30.000 And who gave the orders?

00:28:33.000 Is there an argument to defy those orders and still do that?

00:28:38.000 So there's one person here that said, it seems as if that students and staff from a part of the school were able to be evacuated safely.

00:28:46.000 The gunman had barricaded inside by himself, and the police then decided to create a perimeter and did nothing.

00:28:56.000 That's not exactly a, let's say, a good excuse.

00:29:04.000 This happens more than often, though.

00:29:06.000 And Kitty Genovese was her name.

00:29:09.000 That's right.

00:29:11.000 Kitty Genovese.

00:29:13.000 Pulled that one out of my memory.

00:29:16.000 Kitty Genovese was a woman in New York City. 1.00

00:29:20.000 Now, part of this story was embellished a little bit, but the essence of it is true.

00:29:25.000 Kitty Genovese was raped and sexually assaulted in an alleyway, of which there were multiple eyewitnesses that heard it happen and they did nothing.

00:29:35.000 Now, mind you, the situation that happened on the subway, remember last year where the illegal alien in downtown Philadelphia raped a woman for 40 minutes and no one did anything on the subway.

00:29:52.000 The bystander effect has been happening in every corner of our country the last couple of years.

00:29:59.000 So it shouldn't surprise you when police officers just do nothing.

00:30:05.000 It shouldn't shock you when police officers just sit idly by when children are murdered.

00:30:14.000 I wish I just refuse to believe it, but every report shows.

00:30:18.000 And the timeline looks like it makes sense.

00:30:20.000 And we're going to get more clarity that 40 minutes, that for 40 minutes, the police officers who were sworn to do something were just spectators.

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00:31:23.000 Joe says, what you did to the Uvalde Police Department was unjustified.

00:31:27.000 The Texas Rangers haven't even finished their investigation. 0.97

00:31:29.000 You've marked the Uvalde Police Department as a bunch of cowards. 0.95

00:31:32.000 I have no tolerance for this BS. 0.90

00:31:33.000 You can get in line with Beto O'Rourke.

00:31:35.000 Oh, I'm sorry.

00:31:35.000 I'm just reading from Breitbart.com, which is not the Washington Post, about why there is an hour gap between the gunmen being completely and totally barricaded in and nothing happening.

00:31:51.000 Can anyone answer that?

00:31:52.000 Why were parents being tased and being detained?

00:31:57.000 The gunman did not exchange fire with a Uvalde district police officer outside the school, according to the timeline.

00:32:03.000 That police officer was not stationed at the school, but instead in a car nearby and rushed to the scene after the first calls came into a 911 gunman near the school around 11.30 on Tuesday.

00:32:13.000 As the officer arrived at the school, the gunman was already approaching, began firing at the school and entered according to the timeline.

00:32:17.000 Within minutes, other law enforcement had arrived at the school.

00:32:19.000 According to the timeline, two members of the Uvalde Police Department had entered the school.

00:32:23.000 The gunman at that point had gone inside a pair of adjoining classrooms and was shooting according to the timeline.

00:32:27.000 The two officers attempted to enter the classroom and were shot.

00:32:29.000 At that point, they fell back as the shooting continued inside the classroom.

00:32:34.000 He continued shooting through the wall and the door at law enforcement who were arriving outside the classroom.

00:32:39.000 It was during those minutes law enforcement officials believe that the gunman, identified as, we don't say the name, killed most, if not all, the children inside the adjoining classroom.

00:32:46.000 There was sporadic gunfire from the suspect until a tactical team arrived and killed until 1 p.m., according to the timeline.

00:32:52.000 Got it.

00:32:54.000 So there is an hour delta between actually neutralizing the shooter and the perimeter of police from the outside.

00:33:02.000 Hmm.

00:33:03.000 Cut 97 shows police officers trying to detain parents from trying to save their kids' lives.

00:33:09.000 Why are police officers doing that to parents?

00:33:11.000 Play Cut 97.

00:33:12.000 Look at that sh ⁇ , bro. 1.00

00:33:13.000 They're all in there. 1.00

00:33:14.000 The cops ain't doing s ⁇ but standing outside.

00:33:18.000 May, I can't be like that, man.

00:33:20.000 Yeah, I can't be like that when there's people.

00:33:22.000 Yes, I do.

00:33:22.000 Get across the street.

00:33:24.000 Because I'm having to deal with you.

00:33:25.000 Get across the street. 1.00

00:33:28.000 Get across the street, man.

00:33:29.000 We're going to mess up.

00:33:30.000 Are you going to walk into that gate and get up?

00:33:33.000 Parents trying to save their kids' lives and police officers holding them back.

00:33:39.000 There was a one.

00:33:39.000 I just want to reinforce this.

00:33:40.000 I'm not anti-police.

00:33:41.000 Again, people get so emotional.

00:33:43.000 I love police.

00:33:43.000 I said that early on.

00:33:44.000 I'm against cowards.

00:33:46.000 And police officers that do not go and neutralize a shooter for one hour have a lot of explaining to do.

00:33:55.000 I'm getting pretty upset the more I read about this.

00:33:58.000 Latest reports, video published by the Washington Post, which notes at 1154, shows frustrated parents chastising police and trying to get into the school.

00:34:05.000 Officials said the gunman was killed more than an hour later.

00:34:09.000 So the police officers were babysitting parents while the gunman was murdering children.

00:34:16.000 Got an email here from Keith.

00:34:17.000 Great listener.

00:34:18.000 Hello, Charlie.

00:34:20.000 This topic today has me shaking my head.

00:34:22.000 I honestly do not know what to say.

00:34:23.000 One question I have is, who did these officers get their orders from?

00:34:26.000 That's exactly right, Keith.

00:34:28.000 Or maybe is it some sort of protocol to wait on SWAT or something?

00:34:31.000 I don't know.

00:34:31.000 I'm just asking questions.

00:34:32.000 All in all, it's asinine, cowardice, and a plot to kill our children. 1.00

00:34:36.000 Sickening. 1.00

00:34:38.000 Look, that's what they're going to say.

00:34:39.000 They're like, oh, well, look, the standard operating procedure.

00:34:41.000 Who cares about the standard operating procedure?

00:34:43.000 You got a gunman killing 19 kids.

00:34:47.000 You're just going to listen to what the lawyers say every time?

00:34:49.000 Are you going to go do what's right and save someone's life?

00:34:52.000 At some point, the strong have to protect the weak.

00:34:58.000 And this bystander effect is happening in every corner of our country.

00:35:01.000 Not my problem.

00:35:02.000 Not my problem.

00:35:03.000 Not me. 0.59

00:35:04.000 Like the rapist on the Philadelphia subway, not my problem.

00:35:07.000 Like Kitty Genovese, not my problem.

00:35:09.000 Like Parkland shooting, not my problem.

00:35:11.000 Columbine shooting, not my problem.

00:35:12.000 And let me just say this.

00:35:14.000 Police officers are graded at a different level and they should be than just an everyday citizen.

00:35:21.000 A police officer is sworn in to protect the community.

00:35:27.000 And some people say, well, Charlie, the police officer has a gun just to protect themselves.

00:35:34.000 So you're trying to tell me that under no moral argument you think it's proper for a police officer to go man up and go in and go confront the coward to save children's lives.

00:35:49.000 Maggie emailed us here.

00:35:52.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:35:52.000 I don't understand with the police being able to stand and do nothing, but I believe you and I might feel differently if we went through a tactical training session with police.

00:35:58.000 The very simple axiom that you just don't know until you've walked several miles in someone else's shoes.

00:36:02.000 I agree with that.

00:36:03.000 And I said that earlier in the show.

00:36:06.000 I'm not saying that I know how I would react in a situation like this.

00:36:10.000 What I am saying, though, is that there's no excuse for a group of police officers to do nothing and to be in a situation of paralysis.

00:36:18.000 So you want to know, it very well could have been, tragically, six children, not 19 children.

00:36:23.000 But when you create a perimeter, the police officers unintentionally were working in harmony with the shooter.

00:36:35.000 I know that sounds so perverse, but based on these reports, it's true.

00:36:42.000 They just did nothing.

00:36:43.000 The police were more concerned and more focused on a parent saying, I'm going to go in there myself.

00:36:50.000 Nope, Tasem.

00:36:53.000 We, the police officers, won't allow a good action of courage on our watch.

00:36:58.000 We're the courage police.

00:36:59.000 We're just going to allow kids to get murdered. 0.99

00:37:03.000 Now, I get it if it was five minutes or 10 minutes.

00:37:06.000 I won't say I get it, but I wouldn't be as heated.

00:37:10.000 40 minutes this gunman had alone in a room.

00:37:25.000 Who was giving these orders to police officers?

00:37:26.000 Why didn't one police officer stand up and say, this is wrong?

00:37:29.000 I'm going in.

00:37:30.000 Who's following me?

00:37:32.000 The country I grew up in was the Flight 93 country.

00:37:36.000 When that plane was going down and they knew they were going to die and they said, let's roll.

00:37:41.000 And they took over the cockpit and it landed in rural Pennsylvania.

00:37:44.000 That's the country I grew up in.

00:37:46.000 And they're heroes.

00:37:47.000 And they knew they were going to die.

00:37:49.000 And they did it anyway to go save other people that they would never meet.

00:37:54.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - May 26, 2022

Inaction in Uvalde: Did the Police Fail the 19 Children?

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