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.

  • PoliticalAgitator
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    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
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      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?