Craven Cowards

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— ZoyaisLove (@zoyaislove) May 26, 2022

We now know more about the shootings in Uvalde, or more specifically, what the cops did, or didn't do. 

They sat on their duffs for over an hour on the theory that there was no one left alive (there were kids left alive, and they were calling 911).

Also, even if everyone had been shot, there were likely some people would be alive today if they had received treatment in the so-called "Golden Hour," instead of being left to bleed out in a classroom with the shooter.

Through the aftermath of this, police have been lying repeatedly, and repeatedly changing their story, because, as Dan Froomkin pithily observes, "All police lie."

They do so routinely, and the press almost never challenges them on this.

They probably would not this time, only we have videos that went viral showing the police refusing to take action beyond harassing and cuffing parents who were demanding that they do something to protect their kids.

What these parents don't understand is that the police have no obligation at all to protect citizens, the Supreme Court said so in Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzalez.

Given that the killer spent nearly 15 minutes shooting at people and things before entering the school, and police did not respond, and once they arrived, it took them over an hour to move in, it appears to me that someone screwed up.

What's more, given that the story that the police have offered has shifted repeatedly since the shooting, it is not unreasonable to assume that there is an ongoing coverup, at least by the Uvalde police, and likely by other state and local law enforcement agencies.

First, there was a school resource officer that the shooter walked past, and then there wasn't.

Uvalde police immediately entered the school, and then they didn't, and then they did, but waited nearly an hour to do something.

I'm not sure of a lot, but I do know that the Town of Uvalde, population 16,122 16,101 is spending 40% of its municipal budget on police, and it sounds like they could get more bang for their buck if they replaced ⅔ of them with potted plants.

To be honest, I might feel differently about this if my house were burgled.  After all, after something like that, I would expect to have to water 5½ hours to get a dismissive shrug.

It's my right as a taxpayer.