Really hard to overstate the incompetence of the police in the Uvalde shooting
as more and more information about the events roll out it only makes me more disgusted.
According to DPS Director Steve McGraw who said twice that the cops were the ones who barricaded the shooter into a classroom. In addition to it coming out that the cops rushed into the school to save THEIR OWN kids.
Its hard not to interpret this as the "police barricaded the shooter in a classroom full of kids so they would have time to rescue their own kids"
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Very interesting. Also interesting that no-one seems willing to accept this. Of course, they would be the first to blame the police in other circumstances.
@Graylight I’m not an ijit, as you so elegantly put it. And as I said, people often rush to blame the police in other circumstances, without waiting to evaluate the evidence.
@MartinII Yup, and they're clearly being judged here, too. Just another in the arsenal of "things that aren't really responsible for the big gun shooting using a gun and bullets."
@MartinII Back in the 60s an ex police chief named Klein wrote a book entitled: 'The police. Damned if they do. Damned if thry don't.' The police have to make split second life and death decisions about rapidly developing situations. Then they get second guessed by people who are barely caoable of making the decisions involved in ordering a sandwich in a delicatessen. And who know about as much about the realities of policing as they know about brain surgery.
