Nearly 400 law enforcement officials rushed to a mass shooting at a Uvalde elementary school, but “systemic failures” created a chaotic scene that lasted more than an hour before the gunman who took 21 lives was finally confronted and killed, according to a report from investigators released Sunday.
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Steve McCraw, the head of Texas DPS, has called the police response an abject failure.
Ya think?? But, as it turned out, it was McCraw's people who were actively lying and trying to cover shit up:
From the beginning, state troopers peddled false information to the media and officials at the scene, saying police had confronted the gunman early outside the school, were injured and followed him inside.
Bet you'll wait a long time for there to be any action taken against that little disinformation campaign.
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Bottom line: the cops don't have to save you when you are in danger, and that should be more common knowledge than it is. Too much of what we "know" about the police we learned from movies and TV shows. My mother worked for criminal defense attorneys for twenty years, so I was always aware of the difference between how cops are portrayed and how they actually behave.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
So Doug, the "Oathe" To Serve, Protect & Defend, is useless and un-necessary.
That's sad.
I believe the scotus ruling was in 2005. This was from 2018:
“Neither the Constitution, nor state law, impose a general duty upon police officers or other governmental officials to protect individual persons from harm — even when they know the harm will occur,” said Darren L. Hutchinson, a professor and associate dean at the University of Florida School of Law. “Police can watch someone attack you, refuse to intervene and not violate the Constitution.”
The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the government has only a duty to protect persons who are “in custody,” he pointed out.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
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