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.
You don’t have to be brave to be a cop, you don’t have to help people to be a cop, you don’t have to know how to de-escalate a situation if you’re a cop, and if you murder or steal, you not only get off scot-free, it’s state-endorsed. They’re a non-criminal gang, that’s all there is to it.
I’d argue they are criminal
They should be criminal, but everything they do is deemed legal.
The real criminals the whole time
You don’t even have to know the law to be a cop. We’re a nation being policed by ignorant thugs that are only interested in asserting authority, acquiring power, and chasing a bigger annual budget.
They’re enforcing for the people who make the real rules, who get to define “crime.” Doesn’t matter if they bend a few (and show people they’re helpless against the state and its monopoly on violence!) as long as they don’t harm the system itself.
It 100% is a state-sponsored street gang, just holding, bullying, and taking from ‘their’ territory as they please. wanders off grumbling something about taxis or something
An origin of slave-hunting, a culture of toxic aggression, a history of abuse and lawlessness, harassment and targeting any actual good cops, and immunity from any crimes they commit… What could go wrong?