Texas state police won't punish more officers over Uvalde
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas state police will not discipline any more of its officers over the Uvalde school shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead as heavily armed agents hesitated to confront the lone gunman, a spokesperson confirmed Friday.

Texas state police will not discipline any more of its officers over the Uvalde school shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead as heavily armed agents hesitated to confront the lone gunman, a spokesperson confirmed Friday.

The decision is a turning point nearly nine months after one of the worst school attacks in U.S. history, and the widespread outrage over the officers who allowed more than 70 minutes to go by before stopping the massacre.

It also raises new questions about how many of the nearly 400 law enforcement personnel who were at Robb Elementary School last May might face discipline. They came from a constellation of agencies in South Texas, including the Texas Department of Public Safety, U.S. Border Patrol and local police. Two DPS officers have been fired, and one of them is appealing his termination.

  • DamizelEnglish
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    1 year ago

    If gun owners were allowed to use their weapons to go in there and stop the shooter … why we’re the police stopping them from going in? Almost as if they aren’t allowed to use their guns in the same capacity.

    There is nothing more to blame for the scale of this massacre aside from the Uvalde police. Pro or anti gun wouldn’t have mattered as all of them were perfectly or overly equipped to handle the situation. The uvalde police were the ones who were directing on scene( or lack of I should say). I’m not trying to say that the root of the issue wasn’t that a deranged teenager was allowed to purchase those guns, that in itself is a problem with all of America. But this incident in particular is 75% Uvalde and 25% that kid.

    Had they pushed in I would argue the death toll would be half of what it is now.

    • PoliticalAgitator
      1·
      1 year ago

      Half the number of murdered children? . If that’s your best case with the big, brave police of your dreams, it lays bare how much a non-solution it really is.

      If you want to minimize the violence that damaged people can do, gun control can do a whole lot better than the “half the murdered children” we’re being promised if we fix the police instead.

      • DamizelEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’d prefer to never have any more kids murdered by guns, but you open up that topic of less guns in America and it’s a 50/50 deal whether people come at you full bore or not.

        In Canada we’ve had less mass shootings in our whole history, than america has had this week alone. Maybe take a lesson from us for once?