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These "brave" men and women of the Uvalde police force who are dedicated to doing fuck-all when crisis breaks out.
How can it be that we keep finding out more shit that paints these cops as completely fucking useless?
...and somehow US cops are confused as to why people don't trust them, think they're a joke, and want to see them defunded.
Without disputing that there were a lot of fuckups, this feels like a kind of pointless article given the uncle called 10 minutes after the shooter was shot by police, not sure there was much he could have done at that point.
Useless, or cruel and malicious? A lot of what they did seems to have been in bad faith
Useless? Yes. Lazy and scared? Also yes. But cruel and malicious? No, I just don't see the evidence of that. Even if these weren't members of their own small community, more bloodshed means more paperwork. Let's give the Uvalde Police the respect they deserve: the absolute minimum.
Multiple people wanted to enter but the police collectively detained them. Does that not reek of intent? They stripped other willing cops of guns and sent them off, against one shooter. Basically bouncers preventing any effort to subdue the shooter
They have limited value. Give them $11,000
Not only doing nothing but actively preventing anyone from trying to do something.
Uvalde county overwhelmingly voted Abbott, and re elected all the sheriffs, judges and politicians who did nothing while kids died. I guess my empathy is all spent, when I see that they don't even care about their own kids who died. They had a chance to bring about change and instead chose Republicans again. Uvalde doesn't deserve my sympathy.
So because the majority of voters voted Republican the parents who lost children deserve no empathy from you, even if you don't knwo how they voted.
This is a shit take. Everybody who lost a child deserves empathy, period.
If that community doesn't care about it's own kids, I'm not gonna waste my energy. I'll give my support to people who want it
FUCKING CHRIST Are there no patriots left in Texas? There are still police openly walking around in Uvalde???
how does this story keep getting worse
