As 19 Uvalde School Kids Lay Bleeding Out Cop Seen Casually Using Hand Sanitizer

UVALDE COUNTY, TX. (THECOUNT) — Footage obtained by the Austin-American Statesman, shows a responding officer casually using hand sanitizer as children and Robb Elementary School staff members lay bloodied and dying just yards away.

The officers were caught on school security cameras standing around the school’s hallway for over an hour before confronting the shooter who killed 21 people including 19 children.

The 77-minute clip shows officers charge into school minutes after the rampage began, but then they stopped and didn’t confront the gunman for more than an hour even as Salvador Ramos shot and killed the students and staffers, reports NYpost on Tuesday.

Social media users condemned the “cowardly” act while expressing shock and disgust at the unnamed officer, pictured wearing a helmet and vest. He can be seen nonchalantly pumping the dispenser three times before wiping his hands together. He was also seen checking his phone.

“Would love to hear from this Uvalde cop why he was worried about putting on hand sanitizer while a shooter was massacring kids twenty feet down the hall,” tweeted Cabot Phillips, a senior editor as the Daily Wire, a conservative outlet.

Phillips later tweeted he heard speculation he could be a medic or was using the sanitizer to dry his skin out so his gun didn’t slip in his hands.

Kayce Smith, a Barstool Sports media personality, called the footage of the lingering cops “revolting.”

“so let me get this straight. Uvalde officers were inside within five minutes, stood around for over an hour, made sure to get HAND SANITIZER … while still hearing rounds being fired and the kids screaming,” she tweeted. “What the F— are we doing here?? This is revolting.”

Shannon Watts, founder of gun violence prevention group Moms Demand Action, in a tweet reported the Statesman just published footage of the mass shooting response, “which shows police in ballistics gear waiting around in a school hallway and EVEN STOPPING TO GET HAND SANITIZER while children and educators were slaughtered.”

“Cops in Uvalde checked their phones and got hand sanitizer while children were massacred,” former Ohio congressional candidate and Bernie Sanders ally Nina Turner tweeted. “My God.”

It’s unclear who the officer is or what agency he works for, but the surveillance footage backs up reports that local and state officers failed to take quick action to stop the bloodshed.

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