The Case I Can't Forget: Grant Whitus | A&E
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Grant was one of the first SWAT responders on site of the mass shooting at Columbine High School in 1999. He's responded to countless drug raids and hostage situations. But it's Columbine that's stuck with him the longest, taking a toll on his mental health and personal life.
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Thank you for showing this video, if anything can be learned from the events that day to prevent a repeat we have to see and feel it. Love and compassion is missing in this world, that has to change.
What a brave man, love and prayers to everyone effected by that terrible day.
“At the time”
from someone who grew up in the school shooting era this still gets me in panics . Just remembering my heart sinking all the time
Wait! There was an “era”
I wish you peace and contentment
I too wish you light and peace. That you - that we, will be free from the panic these acts, and memories raises in our hearts and minds.
It's all down to excluding and bullying that creates the shooters,
The fact that they had to say it was the largest school shooting ”at that time” is the reason I'm so overprotective with my 10 year old.
In the UK in 1996 we had the Dunblane massacre with 16 primary school children and 1 teacher dead. Absolutely horrific. The UK banned handguns after that. It's not perfect, but at least I won't worry when my son starts school in September. Wishing your 10 year old all the best.
Overprotective means you put your kid in a private school that has hardened security or home school your child! Government schools are not safe and are not teaching your kids life skills.
Wow!!! Tomorrow will be 22 years since this happened. Thoughts and prayers are with ALL involved living and non💗💗💗
Even though i'm european, and never have set foot on american soil - I remember this day so vividly! For me, as well as for many others - the Colombine mass shooting, is representative of a whole new era of evil.
It’s the “AT THE TIME”, for me 😔
the poor babies were so petrified they wouldn't even move for a swat officer :(
Real life here. Thank you for serving, and most importantly thanks to you and your wife for having an amazing heart.
i wasn’t even alive and that shooting still makes me break down everytime and i have seen some pretty bad shootings in my lifetime of only being 19
I cannot imagine being called to Columbine high school as rescue response and the horror that they had to see... or a parent waiting to see if your child comes out in the end....💔😭 I remember when this happened. It is absolutely heartbreaking!
I can't imagine the horror of what he seen. There's no off button in the dark of night. God bless him and his family. I hope he's still doing OK 🙏❤️
Man, I've seen so many of these but the moment he said the teacher asked for his wallet so he could see his family one last time, the flood gates opened. Here I am at 4:30am bawling on the couch. What a brave man, what a horrible day.
Yes! That part really got me, too.
This man from SWAT and Mr.Sanders are Hero's in my mind without one bit of hesitation... You are to be commended for all you both did collectively.
I cannot believe his wife left him! Especially during such a horribly emotional time. I praise all the heroes of the SWAT team for doing whatever they can to save people's lives.
Let the trash take itself out.
@@a007girl ok!! 👏🏿👏🏿
I don't know the whole situation, but seems like it was better that she walked out and He had to realize that he couldn't keep sweeping his internal struggles under the rug, because eventually he'd explode and do something he shouldn't... And Karrie seems to be the person he really needed to help him truly heal...
I remember my dad had picked myself , and my best friend from high school that day. It was towards the end of our junior year and we were just so excited. My dad didn’t say much to us as we got in the car. He just turned the radio on and it was talking about the shooting. Silence in the car all the way home. We had never heard of anything had like that, and we were just crying. We had church that night, and in youth group everyone was just crying. The next day at school was so weird.
I was in undergrad when I had my first glance into reality.
I student taught 35 miles from ground zero. The unending horrific screams echoing through the school still haunt me. Parents banging on windows & fighting police officers to get their children. We were near a power plant, a navy base, and West Point. The government deemed us a red (high risk) target zone.
After Columbine, all graduating teachers took an intensive 5 week training course on what to do during a school shooting. It was a reality check when a SWAT member told us to make ourselves as big as possible, so that we are shot, not our students.
20 years later, I still teach emotional/behavioral high school students. Knowing how to identify threats, de-escalate, protect, and defend has helped me countless number of times. I’ve had my fair share of incidents where I wasn’t quick enough, I refuse to live in fear. If I can change a students path, it means I’ve saved many others of heartache and pain.
I'm listening good brother! Thank you, u and that teacher r my hero's. All the responder's...🙏
Thank you for sharing your strength 💙
Man these stories are heart wrenching and humbling at the same time ❤️
Thank You for all you did and do , God Bless you and your family
Wow it was really sad my prayers with familys who lost they loved ones😥
Keep up the good work. Sorry you had to endure so much. May God bless you.
I love hear these stories from the point of view of the people who were actually there!!! So awesome & amazing! But also feel Super bad for the trauma it puts them through!
I was in high school in Kansas City at the time this happened and when it was found out our school closed,I don't know if other schools in the country did as well but every school at least acknowledged it in some way. Terrible tragedy and unfortunately there's been more like it
My daughter was in high school on the east coast. I remember it very well and the horrifying realization that but for an accident of birth and location, she could have been one of those students and I could have been one of those parents. I remember those long duster coats the two boys liked to wear and knew there were a couple of boys at my daughter’s school who wore similar ones. I knew it was meaningless, but part of my mind would whisper, “But IS it meaningless? Is a certain personality attracted to that look?”
It was a crazy time. Almost exactly one year later (off by just a day) the Oklahoma City Bombing took place.
God bless your soul and i am truly sorry that you had to experience that. There really are no words! 💔
I was in grade 9 when this happened, and I can truly say it changed so much of the world and how I experienced it after. This was really a very scary incident that rocked the nation when it happened. Bless everyone who had to be involvex that day 💛
Bless his heart!!!! There’s lessons to be learned from everything, some life saving
The fact he wanted to see pic of his family before he passed breaks my soul
It is so weird to see my neighborhood and where I drive and go to the store daily in these videos. I was in 5th grade when the shooting happened like 3 miles from the school. I remember being in lockdown at school and when they finally releases us to our parents, it was completely silent outside. No birds, no talking, no cars driving, nothing. I now live about a mile from the school and take my son to Clement park/skatepark at least 2x a week. I went to jr high and hs with his daughter and she never spoke about her dad really but not everyone knew that he was her dad. To me it's just the park we go to and the high-school my sister and cousins went to until I stop and think. I've been in the school dozens of times but its surreal to see these videos and a few clips of the basement tapes that have been released and knowing EXACTLY where they were driving and where they did their practice shooting.
i remember being in a walmart, long ago, and heard (dropped pallet) a loud Crack! toward the rear of the store. immediately i and 2 other men crouched down and drew weapons. it was like a stone-cold improv squad. i was a federal armed guard, one guy was off-duty PD, the other a deputy. cue the sheepish grins and going back to shopping. i was one of the lucky ones, i only ever fired my gun at the qual range, and never saw a shot-up child. good man.
Good to know you were there and ready to defend if necessary. Thank you. I’d say you’re a pretty good man yourself.
Dave Sanders' funeral was broadcast on TV. I watched it while my 3 and 1 year olds were napping, and cried for him and the children who died. I hope Mr. Whitus is doing well now.
This one was extremely emotional for me
Hearing his own personal account of the whole INSANELY TRAGIC event just makes the hairs stand and tears choke you up... WTH in this world could create such EVIL in 2 young people that haven't even experienced anything tragic enough to be THAT DARK in their hearts?????? Unfathomable. It's like they were 2 sponges for so much hatred and evil in this world. WHY??? 💔
The “at the time” makes me so sad 😞
May we never forget these names: Cassie Bernall, 17; Steven Curnow, 14; Corey DePooter, 17; Kelly Fleming, 16; Matthew Kechter, 16; Daniel Mauser, 15;Daniel Rohrbough, 15; William "Dave" Sanders, 47; Rachel Scott, 17; Isaiah Shoels, 18;
John Tomlin, 16; Lauren Townsend, 18, and Kyle Velasquez, 16.
Wow, what a wonderful human being 🙏💙 And outstanding Officer, a born hero👮♂️👏
May those who lost their lives at columbine Rest in Peace 🙏 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💜
That hurt me when he said his wife left him. What an incredible man !
I can't even imagine what that man had to see in that library......
What?! A year to the day his wife left him for someone else 😭
The ONLY reason, mentally/spiritually, I can come up with, and ONLY after hearing SWAT Team Officer Grant Whitus' testament, for something so dark and evil to even occur, is some kind of que for preparation & training for this kind of evil to be more frequent in the future, and for the necessary agencies to align, learn/teach, and become more readily prepared to save as many lives as possible. Everyone that died in this horrific tragedy is a hero in that sense. They were sacrificed so that preparations and training could save others. 🙏
It saddens me that this is 25 years ago and nothing has changed to stop this happening to more children and more families. Shooting after shooting. Kids practicisg how to hide and hoping it isnt their turn next. It's hard to fathom from outside the US hpw this is still being allowed to happen to your children.
I will never forget also... I woke up from surgery with this all over the news! This was the start of it all!
This is a horrible tragedy, but... I just want to say that he made it sound like SWAT went in immediately. They didn't. It took SWAT almost 3 hours to even enter the building. In the library, where most of the killing was done, the door going outside was open. Dozens of police were 20, maybe 30 yards away. They didn't do anything.
As sad as it is to say, Columbine shaped how law enforcement responds to active shooter events because of how much criticism they received by not going in to immediately stop the shooters, but by how long they just sat by their cars and waited for the shooting to stop.
I remember that day
Thank you sir
4:42 just seeing Harris’s lifeless body after he & Klebold committed suicide is chilling
Blessings 🌿 to you sir and the whole community, but especially the families that lost someone...so horrific..
Thnx to those who were willing to sacrifice for these kids!!
R. I. P beautiful angels. How sad the wife left such a good man, some women just don't appreciate a good thing. So glad he found someone that truly loves him.
In her defense, he had become a different person and not a very nice one by his admission. He referenced going down a bad path and that can mean a lot of things. He sounds happy now so perhaps it was a better ending for all this way.
well just because he was a hero in his job does not guarantee that he was a good husband to her, so let's not be too quick to judge her.
@@virg0_lem0nade I'm not judging her, it's clear that he's a lovely man
@@tinahasapis1085 well you said "some women just don't appreciate a good thing" which is actually very judgmental of you. you've only seen a short edited video of him and never met him in real life, whereas she was married to him for years.
very judgy of you to say that someone's divorce was because she "doesnt appreciate a good thing" when you have never in your entire life met her OR him. LOL.
@@virg0_lem0nade whatever, it's my opinion, so let it be. I don't have to know him, I can tell very well that he's a great bloke
Good On you, Grant : )
Understandable that this was hard to shake off. Anything this malevolent and gruesome against children would be a complete horror movie. Maybe metal detectors posted up at all entrances to all schools is needed. RIP victims. Thank you sir, and all 1st responders and heroes.
I wish he could have trained the officers in Uvalde.
I'll listen!!
God bless this man! We need fearless warriors! 🙏❣
At the time.... 😔😖
The main driver here is mental health problems. We have had many mass shootings just in the last 30 days and it's mental health!
People talk guns and I agree that no citizen needs a "mass casualty gun" like an AR 15 BUT we need to help these people before it gets to that. Just like the shooter at the UPS facility last week. Family tried to get him help but it didn't happen soooo he ends up ordering those guns and killing people who were just working. Just at work.
1 Peter 5:7 “Turn all your anxiety over to God because he cares for you.” Jesus loves you dont give up on him!❤!
thanks, something I needed to remember.
School shootings are not as often as they were back then, but the lack of God is the reason why there's so much evil in the schools anyway. I remember when I was a kid in school and I know that was a long while ago, first thing we as a class would do each morning after first bell we would pray. Then it was pledge allegiance to the American flag, then in just a few words the teacher would give the students an opportunity to speak in front of the class if they had something to say. And if it was something they just wanted the teach to hear she/he would give them that min. But now the love of God is missing in everything we do and in everyday. We need to start putting these habits back into our lives and teaching it to our children. That's why a lot of people can't control their children, but the American people allowed the O'Hara's to do this. Some people say they can't do something by themselves, how did Madelyn O'Hara manage to take prayer out of schools or make it offensive for me to pray in some public places? Her and her son did that. So you have to look at that, if you want something bad enough you have to fight for it. But in that case she just loved the devil, sorry to say. But look what happened to her family, I hate this to but you be bad/bad comes looking for you. Her family has yet to be found. I think they may a few years ago think they may have found some bones, not sure if it's been proven.....
This is the school that Rachel's Challenge started from and I myself grew up in a school that had a shooting in it on February 19, 1997, and there was one Teacher that was still teaching when I graduated from there.
I was reaching at the time. Elementary school, several states away. The kids were so scared.
i think you might have a typo in your post. i am guessing you meant to write, "teaching" instead of "reaching"
The one I'll never forget is Sandy Hook..It happened next to my hometown. Horrific
Also horrific
God bless you
Too bad you didn't get to take them out bro. I understand the guilt trust me
How about America changing their gun laws so that it doesn't keep happening? I don't understand. If you restrict anyone other than law enforcement, rangers, people living in extremely isolated areas, prison guards, Armed Forces from having guns then surely it would decrease deaths, wouldn't it?
Yeah bro it’s American if you willing to give up up some of your freedom for safety then you’ll have no freedom
all theses laws are in effect in several states and cities, one of the most stringent being the gigantic slaughterhouse named Chicago. so that invalidates your argument immediately. long run, you'll have armed insurrection by the millions of LAWFUL gun owners at the present.
How, exactly do you propose to deal with the 393 million legally registered guns in the US? Not to mention the 300+ million UNregistered guns...
22 years today...
Its always the same story the popular kids exclude even bully the outcasts or poorer kids,then they get their revenge its all tears,schools need to take a zero tolerance to bullying 1 strike your out.dont hate im stating a fact.
I'm of the generation that will one day say:
School shootings didn't used to happen kids. I'm sorry this is a thing now. And I'm VERY sorry that no one in charge cares enough to even pass a single law
I'm still practicing what I'll say when my own children ask "why do we have lockdown drills?"
Rush Limbaugh: "Thats the price of freedom".
Alex Jones: "They're crisis actors."
Politicians line their own pockets while sending their own children to private schools.
NRA: "IT'S THE 2ND AMENDMENT SO YOU CANT CHANGE IT"
Well the constitution CAN be changed, and has been 27 (so far) times.... and that's the point of our constitution! That's the point the founding fathers made. That's WHAT Amendents ARE!
But as of today... the "freedom" of the 37%, outweighs the freedom of LIFE for the 100%
no offense meant at all by this but i think if u had made the title something like "The Case I Can't Forget: Columbine High School" or even just "The Case I Can't Forget: Columbine" it would have drawn in literally 10 times the views or more.
I thought it said “giant walrus”.
and yet, even after watching the video and finding out what horrific tragedy it is about..... you still thought THIS was a good comment to post? or did you not even watch this video at all and you still posted this anyway?
420 has a representation of legal marijuana laws in that State. It should be a nationally recognized for all tragedies of mass killings.
The unrealness of his statement "Worse thing ever to children "
Who could imagine there'd be more. Sandy Hook tore out my heart. xoxoxo ❤👼
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Sometimes 12 & 11 minutes, maximum hours.
Dynasty gamers
Dylan and eric are prob drinking Martini's with God atm
How did these guys get it right the first time it happened but Uvalde did what they did??
Wooow
This guy is a coward.
Why am I crying smh
I’m proudly childfree by choice.
Best decision I’ve ever made.
I’m glad he got a better wife.
wtf does you not wanting to have children have to do with this video?
I was born that year in Dominican Republic😓😓
First
what an insensitive comment to leave on a video like this.....
@@virg0_lem0nade ok and what is the problem
@@virg0_lem0nade people never know how to stay out of out of other people Business
@@they.luv_liyah9048 how is it that you think the public comments section of a video about the columbine massacre is "your business"???
the "problem" is that this is a tragic and serious topic so it just shows total immaturity to be saying "first" on a video like that
WELP I'd say this is Da Other side of PARENTS LIVING OUT THEIR GLORY DAYS TRYING TO RUN WIT DA JONES'ES wrking an NEVER BEING AT HOME WITH THEIR CHILDREN TEENAGERS need THEIR ATTENTION DA MOST BUT INSTEAD FILLING THEIR LIVES WIT MEANINGLESS MATERIAL THINGS
Do you know ANYTHING about these two boys and their families? It doesn’t sound like it. Eric Harris‘s mother was a SAHM and Dylan Klebold’s mother worked with disabled children. She became an activist for mental health after this. She wrote a book which you might find interesting. I know she also did a TED talk that I saw a few years ago and you could probably find it on YT if you looked. These boys parents weren’t as you described them at all.
Shantee, your comment is so, so, SO ignorant.