The precedent has been set... as a cop it is perfectly legally acceptable to do nothing and let dozens of kids get slaughtered in a school shooting. Coward cops in Uvalde rejoice. Former Parkland school cop Scot Peterson, who allegedly fled shooting, found not guilty on all counts Scot Peterson faced up to 95 years in a prison if convicted on all charges. https://abcnews.go.com/US/parkland-...on-allegedly-fled-shooting/story?id=100392688
The latest in the Uvalde mess. Even in small town Texas it's REALLY hard for cops and the DA to sweep police incompetence under the rug when there are 19 dead kids attached to it. Uvalde mayor calls for district attorney’s resignation, new lawsuit filed https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/u...n&cvid=2926139c1bdb4bdfa3f4a1ba444defe8&ei=11 Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin on Wednesday accused the county’s district attorney, Christina Mitchell, of a cover-up in connection with the ongoing investigation into the 2022 school shooting in the community and called on her to resign as the city reinstated a lawsuit seeking access to law enforcement records connected with the rampage that killed 21. Mitchell “has been involved in a cover-up regarding the city’s investigation into the Robb School tragedy,” the mayor said in a statement. The DA did not respond to messages from ABC seeking comment. The renewed lawsuit, filed on Aug. 29 in District Court in Uvalde County, again seeks a court order requiring the DA’s office to release information regarding the mass shooting for the city’s independent investigator Jesse Prado. Last year, Prado was hired by the city to conduct an internal affairs investigation into the actions of city police who responded to the Robb Elementary School shooting, where 19 fourth graders and two teachers were killed on May 24, 2022. McLaughlin said an original lawsuit, filed by the city in December 2022, was dismissed after Mitchell promised to provide the information their investigator requested. But according to the mayor, Mitchell has not complied. “She failed once again to keep her word,” McLaughlin said in a statement. In an interview with ABC affiliate KSAT on Wednesday, McLaughlin said city officials needed the statements from other law enforcement agencies, such as officers with the Texas Department of Public Safety, to properly conduct the city’s internal review. “We needed bodycams they had,” McLaughlin told KSAT. “It was available. We wanted the school, the original school video, which, you knew ... I was trying to get it so we could go ahead and get our investigation to give her, you know. And then we're told to go to YouTube and get it off YouTube. Really? I mean, that's, you know, we can't use that.” The mayor told KSAT on Wednesday that the families deserve answers. Jacinto Javier Cazares, the father of 9-year-old victim Jacklyn “Jackie” Cazares, told ABC News that he is frustrated by what he believes is a lack of transparency from the district attorney. “I never trusted the District Attorney,” said Cazares. “She painted a pretty picture at the very beginning, but in my opinion, she seemed to have already made up her mind at the beginning about who was guilty and who was not." (Article has video and pictures.)
The Justice Department’s report is a damning 575-page catalogue of confusion, lack of courage and their deadly consequences. The 18-year-old gunman killed 19 students and two teachers before officers eventually shot him. Many of the grim, maddening details of the faulty response were already known, but the federal report is the fullest, most detailed account of one of the worst school shootings in the nation’s history.
I think we all knew that without a multi-million dollar catalog that detailed the all-around failure of the scared shitless Uvalde police. I wonder if there's anything in the report about Governor Abbott's defense of the police especially when he suggested they were the most courageous law enforcement including his attacks on those (including on the parents) that demanded answers about the mass shooting. Specifically, Abbott focused high praise for the Uvalde police...repeatedly commending the armed first-responders for their bravery, and speaking about the psychological toll the shooting could have on them. He and his Lt. Governor called the Uvalde police and the educators "heroes" while the outraged public called the police "cowards". It took Abbott almost another month before he publicly stated he was misled by the Uvalde police. Yet, he still refused to pressure those involved to resign or be fired...it required others to get the cowards to either quit, resign, or be fired. After the DOJ released their report...Governor Abbott stated the following... We thank the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for the tremendous amount of time and attention it has put into compiling the critical incident review of the shooting at Robb Elementary School. As DPS Director Steven McCraw first stated in the weeks after the shooting, the law enforcement response that day was an abject failure, and this report’s observations underscore those failures. The State of Texas has already implemented some of the recommendations proposed by the DOJ review in order to prevent tragedies in the future. In my opinion, the report should make everyone in Texas cautious about the preparation by other schools and police for a mass shooter, especially because Governor Abbott has been quietly "defunding" mental health resources in the state of Texas while his office blames mental illness and not the gun laws in the state of Texas. In the meantime, Texas will probably re-elect the creep. wrbtrader
DOJ Blasts Law Enforcement’s Uvalde Shooting Response in New Report, Calls for Agencies to Prioritize Training In a long-awaited report, the Justice Department found widespread failures in the official response to the 2022 shooting. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said that had officers followed accepted practices, “lives would have been saved.” https://www.propublica.org/article/doj-report-blasts-law-enforcement-response-uvalde-shooting
Uvalde grand jury to consider criminal charges against officers after scathing DOJ report https://www.statesman.com/story/new...-criminal-charges-police-failure/72286868007/
A good documentary from WRAL. WRAL Documentary: UnSafe: North Carolina kids dying from gun violence In UnSafe: North Carolina Kids Dying from Gun Violence, WRAL Investigative Documentary Reporter Cristin Severance and Documentary Photojournalist Dwayne Myers shed light on the devastating impacts of gun violence through the deeply personal story of one family's loss. https://www.wral.com/story/wral-doc...rolina-kids-dying-from-gun-violence/21323690/
It's a sad day in America when the number one killer of children...Guns and we cannot pass gun laws (e.g. universal background checks). Guns are the leading cause of death for US children and teens, since surpassing car accidents in 2020. Firearms accounted for nearly 19% of childhood deaths (ages 1-18) in 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wonder database. Nearly 3,600 children died in gun-related incidents that year. wrbtrader