7 Calls, 47 Minutes by Matthew Randazzo V
The cops in Uvalde, Texas stood outside a locked elementary school door while children trapped inside with a murderer begged for help.
One little girl showed more courage than the over 100 cops on the scene who refused to confront a single untrained teenager.
While they were afraid “they could’ve been shot” according to Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Chris Olivarez, this small child courageously risked her life by calling 9-1-1 seven times in the vicinity of the killer during the massacre.
Seven times.
This was how “Protect and Serve” was defined for her.
At 12:03 p.m, 35 minutes (2100 seconds) have passed since the first 9-1-1 call from a teacher, and 32 minutes (1920 seconds) have passed after the first cop arrived in the school parking lot.
It is at this time that a student first risks her life to call 9-1-1. For 83 courageous seconds she whispers in the shooter’s vicinity to plead for police to rescue her and her classmates. There are as many as 19 cops already massed outside the classroom door, and there is only one teenager waiting to face them on the other side.
Nothing happened.
The cops in Uvalde, Texas stood outside a locked elementary school door while children trapped inside with a murderer begged for help.
At 12:10 p.m., the same brave little girl calls for a second time, stating that classmates have been murdered, 7 minutes (420 seconds) after she first begged for police to rescue them and 42 minutes (2520 seconds) after the first 9-1-1 call from a teacher.
Nothing happened.
The cops in Uvalde, Texas stood outside a locked elementary school door while children trapped inside with a murderer begged for help.
At 12:13 p.m., she calls 9-1-1 for the third time, 10 minutes (600 seconds) after she first begged for police to rescue them and 45 minutes (2700 seconds) after the first 9-1-1 call from a teacher.
Nothing happened.
The cops in Uvalde, Texas stood outside a locked elementary school door while children trapped inside with a murderer begged for help.
At 12:16 p.m., she calls 9-1-1 for the fourth time, this time reporting that at least 8 or 9 of her classmates are still alive, 13 minutes (780 seconds) after she first begged for police to rescue them and 48 minutes (2880 seconds) after the first 9-1-1 call from a teacher.
Nothing happened.
The cops in Uvalde, Texas stood outside a locked elementary school door while helpless, trapped children inside begged for help as they watched their classmates get gruesomely murdered.
At 12:21 p.m., shots are audibly heard on a 9-1-1 call, 18 minutes (1080 seconds) after the first 9-1-1 call from a student and 53 minutes (3180 seconds) after the first 9-1-1 call from a teacher.
Nothing happened.
The cops in Uvalde, Texas stood outside a locked elementary school door while children trapped inside with a murderer begged for help.
At 12:36 p.m., the brave little girl who first dialed 9-1-1 calls for the fifth time, this time terrified because the killer shot into a nearby door, 33 minutes (1980 seconds) after she first begged for police to rescue them and 68 minutes (4080 seconds) after the first 9-1-1 call from a teacher.
Nothing happened.
The cops in Uvalde, Texas stood outside a locked elementary school door while children trapped inside with a murderer begged for help.
At 12:43 p.m., she calls 9-1-1 for the sixth time, pleading for the police to immediately enter the classroom, 40 minutes (2400 seconds) after she first begged for police to rescue them and 75 minutes (4500 seconds) after the first 9-1-1 call from a teacher.
Nothing happened.
The cops in Uvalde, Texas stood outside a locked elementary school door while children trapped inside with a murderer begged for help.
At 12:47 p.m., she calls 9-1-1 for the seventh time, again pleading for immediate help, 44 minutes (2640 seconds) after she first begged for police to rescue them and 79 minutes (4740 seconds) after the first 9-1-1 call from a teacher.
Nothing happened.
The cops in Uvalde, Texas stood outside a locked elementary school door while children trapped inside with a murderer begged for help.
At 12:50 p.m., 47 minutes (2820 seconds) after the first student call to 9-1-1 and 82 minutes (4920 seconds) after the first 9-1-1 call from a teacher, a janitor unlocks the room door and the child murderer is immediately killed by a federal cop.
Count to 2820 seconds – 1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi … that’s how long that child waited for the army of police just on the other side of her classroom door to save the lives of her classmates and teacher.
Count to 4920 seconds – 1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi … that’s how long that first teacher waited for police to save her students from a mass murderer.
How long until Congress answers the call?
1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi …