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Did anybody honestly think they were gonna do something to them? There was a whole reason while there were marches for police accountability, BLM, and racism during covid.
Nothing changed.
ACAB
Nothing changed.
Not true!
A bipartisan bill was passed to increase Federal police budgets by something like $40 billion.
Nevermind all that police protest, we just need to give cops more money, I guess, and that will solve everything. /s
And we got the thin blue line flag. Cuz you know police rights or something
Hey, give them a break. They're a persecuted minority!
Or they persecute minorities. One of the two.
Hey, give them a break! They work a dangerous job and just want to go home every day! Never mind that they're not even in the top 10 most dangerous jobs, or that they've willingly signed up to put their lives on the line. No, they just want to go home at night donchaknow!
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if they just had a ballistic shield they could have made it to the door
The state trooper that finally shot the fucker literally ran in with a shot gun. Fucking cowards.
... This ghoul seriously forced in a talking point asking for more equipment? To grieving parents who watched their kids die while the police were derelict in their duty? 50% of the city budget isn’t enough huh?
The report for the Uvalde city council… was conducted by Jesse Prado, an Austin-based investigator and former police detective.
Ah. “We’ve investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing” despite the feds openly stating the opposite
Next time just say the shooter is a black man and watch them go.
Yup, once a team decides not to go in, they won't go. There will always be another goalpost to move. If they had the shield, they would be waiting for one more guy, or a specialized unit or a robot to go in.
After driving in from an hour away. Or more.
I dunno. If only people had voted in a change of leadership after a failure of leadership or something.
Uvaldes is majority conservative according to Google, so that wouldn’t have happened. I expect nothing less of Texas
That’s what makes me saddest. Their community was wounded directly and that wasn’t enough to cause change. There’s no hope for them.
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Yeah, unfortunately they got the government they voted for, and decided that nothing was good enough.
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It was the republican primary for the election. He didn't get reelected.
He got 64 percent of the vote in the primary. He's running against two other republicans. The do-nothing incompetent sheriff is still likely to win.
But what are his chances in the general? Is it a location where the "real" election is the primary and whoever has an R by their name in the general will win?
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"The officers didn't actually shoot any of the children themselves, so therefor they did nothing wrong."
Did they ever release the body cam footage to confirm that they didn't?
That footage will never, and I mean, NEVER see the light of day. It will have to be leaked to get out.
If they did no wrong, then they would release it. Since they haven't released it and never will, wrong has definitely been done.
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Since the last yellow drop of piss leaked out of the cowards who were at that school that day the city was always going to find that every single law enforcement officer onsite at the Uvalde massacre acted appropriately.
They are facing massive lawsuits and they will do nothing to give the opposing litigants any ammunition to use against them in court.
CYA, the American Way.
So they've (officially) done nothing wrong? Does that imply that it's not wrong to laze about while a shooter—who they obviously knew about—works unimpeded to hollow out classrooms with a fucking carbine?
Legally I think that's exactly what that implies. Cops are under no obligation to defend anyone. They are law enforcement officers, not protection for civilians.
ACAB. Their job is to keep us in line, not protect us.
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Is this the same Uvalde who just re-elected this dude?
https://people.com/politics/uvalde-texas-voted-for-governor-greg-abbott/
And this dude?
https://apnews.com/article/uvalde-texas-mayor-election-2023-2262b2eb3596942caa78ad71316af38e
And these two?
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/03/05/uvalde-sheriff-constable-primary/
It was a primary. He didn't get reelected.
"Missteps" implies that the police did things.
They failed to act and instead they let children get murdered. I know the SC said that cops don't have to protect you whatsoever, but this is beyond the pale. You have a duty to the American people given that they pay your salary, you fat fucking worthless pitiful excuses for law "enforcement".
The precedent is that an individual officer has no duty to protect any given individual on the basis that the collective police have a responsibility to the public as a whole that outweighs an individual. That argument doesn’t work when the entire department stood by and actively prevented any action against the shooter.
Didn't they just overwhelmingly reelect the sheriff that was part of that fiasco?
It was just the primary. He won't be reelected for another few months.
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Where was this outrage when it came to voting against the same sheriff? Or voting for Abbott?
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The investigator who presented the report blamed families who rushed to the school that day for compromising the police response, prompting an eruption of anger from several families and some stormed out.
Classy, investigator-who-prepared-the-report. What are you, some dumbass cop?
Jesse Prado, an Austin-based investigator and former police detective who made the report for the Uvalde City Council,
Oh. Yeah. Well.
Yeah.
Of course a former police detective would find the police did nothing wrong.
https://radiolab.org/podcast/no-special-duty
A fantastic episode that basically covers their asses. The police, according to the law, have no special duty/requirement to protect someone who is being attacked.
So every time you see police protecting nazi protesters, remember: they chose to protect those nazis. Just like they chose to let kids bleed out in Uvalde.
Nononooo…
They’re not defending Nazis. They’re defending other cops. Who happen to be Nazis.
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