My. God.
No rational person can look at what happened — more accurately, what didn’t happen — in Uvalde and use the term “police response” with a straight face.
Can we even call this a failure? It feels more like dereliction of duty, the greatest collective act of cowardice in modern American history.
And the powers that be in Texas continue to lie, deflect and defend the police who stood aside, literally, for over an hour as an active shooter terrorized Robb Elementary in Uvalde.
“Chickens–t.”
That’s Uvalde City Councilman Ernest W. King III — not assailing those spineless officers but rather local news outlets for releasing this footage.
Whoever leaked absolutely did the right thing: Uvalde officials cannot be trusted to do the right thing, as the video proves.
To watch the first few minutes — to see a little boy spy the gunman from around a corner and run the other way, to see the gunman turn left, disappear from view, and then to hear the pure firepower of an assault rifle as it’s aimed at fourth-graders — is to get viscerally, unforgettably close to this particular American horror.
With one caveat: The screams and cries of the children have been edited out.
Why that is, is obvious. But the cynicism on display by Uvalde officials, the pure cover-your-ass machinations in effect, is to wonder if we’re that far gone — if the only way to do right by these littlest victims is to hear them.
During the 60 minute span it took for these shitbags to finally do their jobs, one cop used hand sanitizer, while the others stood around in the hallway with their thumbs up their asses.
Every one of those cops including the police chief who showed no remorse, should be fired and charged with negligent homicide.
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