“As far as I’m concerned, we’ve got to protect the children. We have to be able to disrupt intruders,” West said at the demo. “We saw what happened in Uvalde. School resource officers were hesitant to go into that room, and so what you’ve got to recognize is, there’s a danger for them also, but they are there on the front line.”

But it wasn't just the school resource officers not going in, was it?

The cops had assault rifles and ballistic shields and flashbangs and body armor. What makes you think one more toy is gonna make a difference?

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They’re still citing uvalde? Fuck uvalde. They don’t actually care. After the massacre Uvalde county overwhelmingly voted for every sheriff, judge and politician who caused it. They had a chance for change and they instead voted Republican all the way down. Uvalde clearly don’t care about their own kids and community so why should I? All my sympathy for those people evaporated.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 4 points 1 week ago

A tragedy that exposed what police are really about...

And normie republicans still don't get it

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Uvalde was a communication cluster fuck, not so much cop cowardice. It's fucking painful to watch, but here's the definitive documentary on what went down that day.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/inside-the-uvalde-response/

CAVEAT: You may scream and cry, I did, but that day was probably not how most think it went down. It wasn't so much scared cops. It was cops utterly paralyzed by a broken chain of authority and broken command and control infrastructure. I'll never watch it again.