The Police could stop all of the shootings in Chicago also but it would take out a lot of people in doing so.
There was only one local cop who wanted to go in and save the children. They took his gun away. Cops Prevented Husband of Slain Uvalde Teacher From Trying to Save Her: ‘They Took His Gun Away’ https://www.mediaite.com/news/cops-...om-trying-to-save-her-they-took-his-gun-away/ Police officers on the scene of last month’s massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas disarmed the cop husband of a wounded teacher and prevented him from possibly saving her. She died along with another teacher and 19 children during the May 24 slaughter at Robb Elementary School. The revelation comes from Texas Department of Public Safety Director, Col. Steven McCraw. McCraw’s agency is investigating the botched police response to the school shooting – the deadliest in Texas history – as it becomes clearer first responders refused to act as a madman murdered 21 people. WFAA reported, Texas DPS Director Steve McCraw told the Texas Senate in a hearing Tuesday that Mireles’ husband – a police officer who responded to the scene – knew his wife had been shot and was detained and had his gun taken from him when he tried to go into the classroom. McCraw testified before the Texas Senate Tuesday with more details about the inept and derelict officers who responded to the massacre. He recounted how officer Ruben Ruiz was informed his wife had been shot by an armed 18-year-old. Ruiz was married to teacher Eva Mireles, who called him during the killings to tell him she had been wounded. McCraw said at one point, Ruiz entered the school armed with a gun, but was detained by other officers. “And what happened to him, is he tried to move forward into the hallway,” McCraw told lawmakers. “He was detained and they took his gun away from him and escorted him off the scene.” McCraw also informed the Texas state Senate a door officers waited more than an hour to breach was never locked. Per the latest information about the shooting, it would not have mattered if the door had been secured. A tool to remove it was at the scene within eight minutes of the beginning of the massacre. Nothing was done as heavily armed officers sat on their hands and listened to gunshots. Children in the classroom sat inside with the gunman for one hour and 14 minutes before a Border Patrol tactical team entered, shot and killed the attacker.
Uvalde City Council denies police chief's request to double down on being a coward. He e tries to use a leave of absence to avoid having to testify or be investigated - plus attempting to avoid rightful criticism from the citizens of Uvalde. He needs to resign as demanded by the parents. Uvalde City Council denies Pete Arredondo's leave of absence request https://abcnews.go.com/US/uvalde-city-council-denies-pete-arredondos-leave-absence/story?id=85544930 The Uvalde City Council unanimously denied council member Pete Arredondo's request for a leave of absence from future meetings, in an effort to be more transparent following criticisms of law enforcement's handling of the Robb Elementary School mass shooting. Arredondo, who serves as the chief of police for the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District and was sworn in as a city council member at the end of May, wanted to be exempt from attending future city council meetings. A motion was unanimously denied to grant a leave of absence to the newly elected council member, who was not present Tuesday night. Per city council rules, there is a $2 fine for missing council meetings, and after three missed meetings, the other council members can vote to have a member removed from their post. Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin said he would vote "yes" to replace Arredondo on the city council if he misses three consecutive meetings without a leave of absence. The council pointed out that it can't take an opinion or make any official vote because Arredondo hasn't actually missed three meetings. Those attending the meeting Tuesday erupted in cheers when the council denied his leave.
Stacy Abrams is either actually intelligent or reading the forum. Hopefully both. We need to raise the salaries of law enforcement officers all across the country.
Before you simply pay them more.... train them better before you send hot headed mental cases on the streets with loaded weapons and licenses to kill for misdemeanors..
It’s one of those things that will take a generation to see results. Higher salaries will attract better applicants - this I know for sure.
The behavior of the Uvalde police department just gets more depraved and disgusting. Now they are continually harassing a local woman who dared to speak up about their inaction. Uvalde mother who got out of cuffs to rescue kids from shooting is now being harassed by police, lawyer says Angeli Gomez says Uvalde police have harassed her more than once since she shared her story about the shooting https://www.foxnews.com/us/uvalde-mother-rescue-kids-shooting-harassed-police-lawyer A Uvalde mother who was handcuffed as she tried to run by police outside Robb Elementary School, but eventually got free and rescued her kids, is now being harassed by police after speaking out about the ordeal, her lawyer said this week. Angeli Rose Gomez, a Uvalde native, was working on a farm roughly half an hour away when she started getting calls about the shooting and rushed to the school. Her lawyer, Mark Di Carlo, called the scene when she arrived "the most horrible scenario you could imagine." "We had these [$50,000] to $100,000 cruisers surrounding this school, taxpayer items — taxpayer shields and bulletproof vests and sniper rifles – none of those being used to go into the school, but in fact, the SUVs, for example, were being used to block people from going in to save their own children," Di Carlo told Fox News Digital on Monday. Gomez was handcuffed by either a Texas Department of Public Safety Officer or US Marshal as she tried to get past the police line. A Uvalde Police Department officer who knew Gomez then intervened and helped her get free. "As soon as they take me off the cuffs, I see his arm, like, give me a little gateway, because I'm real little. So, a little gateway where I can just run," Gomez told WOAI this week. Gomez first located the classroom that her oldest son was in and told them to evacuate, then found her youngest son and helped him get out of the school as well. She has since shared her story, first with CBS News in early June and with local media this week, prompting a backlash from law enforcement, according to her lawyer. Gomez was stopped this month and told that police received a report that there were illegal immigrants in her car, which wasn't true. Then recently, Gomez was walking with her grandmother when they noticed a Uvalde Police Department officer sitting in a car with the lights on about half a block from their home. Gomez, who is on probation for a domestic incident, also was threatened with a probation violation on the day of the shooting. Police from the state to local level have been harshly criticized for their response to the shooting, which left 19 children and two adults dead. Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw accused Pete Arredondo, the Uvalde school police chief and incident commander at the scene, of placing "the lives of officers before the lives of children." "Three minutes after the suspect entered the west building, there was a sufficient number of armed officers wearing body armor to isolate, distract, and neutralize the subject," McCraw told a Texas Senate committee last week. Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin, meanwhile, accused McCraw of deflecting blame from state law enforcement. "There were no less than eight law enforcement agencies present in the hallway leading up to the breach of the door at Robb Elementary School," McLaughlin said at a Uvalde City Council meeting last week. "Every briefing, he leaves out the number of his own officers and rangers that were on scene that day." Di Carlo, who also represents several other community members in Uvalde, said he's consider multiple lawsuits related to Gomez's ordeal, including potentially a civil rights lawsuit for infringing on her free speech or a lawsuit for false imprisonment stemming from her temporary arrest outside the school. The Uvalde Police Department did not respond to a request for comment on Monday.
Texas Congressman Says Uvalde Tragedy Made Worse by ‘Basically What Amounts to a Cover-Up’ by Law Enforcement https://www.mediaite.com/tv/texas-c...hat-amounts-to-a-cover-up-by-law-enforcement/