re: NYT: Border Patrol Tactical Team Was Ordered to Hold Back Before Confronting the Gunman

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Should also be subjected to decimation per the Roman Legions punishment for cowardice.

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Now this I can get behind.

Article VI of the Constitution says they have higher authority, but my understanding is they usually only exercise that when enforcing federal court orders or specific federal legal matters. Otherwise, they work in partnership with the locals

But, yeah, you'd think that someone from the feds would have looked around and realize the locals were running a clown show and grabbed the bull by the horns themselves.

Unfortunately in a situation like that there’s a reason tactical teams are taught to follow death to know where to go. In a situation like that there’s always going to be at least one officer that receives incoming rounds you just hope the others behind find them threat fast from those rounds and that they don’t penetrate their vests. You still have to go immediately though even knowing you will most likely take casualties.

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Initially I took a "wait and see" approach in regards to the police involved. I saw no good in piling on and shitting all over them from the jump until we learned more about what actually happened.

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This. I realize that most police officers are doing a job no one else wants to do for little pay, and I normally respect what they do.

This, however, goes beyond incompetence into pure cowardice. I know the local guys, county guys, state, and federal cops don't like to step on each other's toes, but there needed to be at least one alph on that federal squad to look around at a bunch of idiots trying to frick a football and step up and say "HEY! Everybody stop what you're doing right now and give me a best plan of attack to put this psycho child-killer down, NOW! We are the feds and this is our scene now. If you don't like it, kindly frick off and I'll speak to you after we take care the a-hole with a gun inside."

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Did they threaten to arrest or shoot federal agents? It’s starting to look less like incompetence and more like it was intentional

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What would the “intention” be?

Local police and state police have operational control over these matters. School shootings are not a federal matter. The Feds were there in response to assistance, but if the local cops weren’t going to go in themselves, they almost assuredly weren’t going to let the Feds go in either.

It’s just simple small town incompetence.

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Article VI of the Constitution says they have higher authority,

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It’s constitution and laws made in pursuance thereof. They would have higher authority based on a federal law or defined crime under federal law meeting that criteria.

As it was written & ratified before 10th amendment the supreme law of the land should only include what powers constitution has delegated to feds and/or has prohibited the states from having, but that’s not how it plays out through various measures especially funding and broad & constantly evolving interpretation of 14th amendment along with powers granted congress to enforce its provisions.

I would still think Border would have legislative or regulatory restrictions on acting on it’s own in this situation that the FBI or maybe even the ATF might not have had.

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He did wound several cops