You just have to find the right motivator.
You may recall the 2022 school shooting at Robb Elementary, in Uvalde, Texas. If not, here’s a synopsis.
- Police observed a scumbag actively shooting at people near the school.
- Rather than do something about it, the officer radioed in for permission to act.
- By that time, the shooter made it into the school.
- Police — hundreds — responded to the scene, but did not engage the killer.
- The killer spent a great deal of time in a classroom shooting 40 people; students and teachers.
- One officer attempted to enter the classroom. Other officers forcibly stopped him.
- After 77 minutes, the police finally went in.
The end result was 19 dead children and two dead adult victims.
It’s been nearly a year since I’d heard anything more about this. I assumed it had simply fallen out of the mainstream “news” cycle while they concentrated on “get Orange Man Bad.”
Nope. It turns out that the Uvalde prosecutor, Christina Mitchell, has been slow-walking and blocking the investigation into the police [lack of] response.
Which led to this little incident, which shows the Uvalde cops can respond quickly. When they feel like it (like when someone is criticizing them).
Brett Cross committed the horrific crime of telling a county commissioner, “My child is fucking dead!” He was immediately arrested, cuffed, taken out, and put into a police car. (Pardon the language, but I thought the exact quote leading to his arrest was needed.)
Why would these grieving parents suspect a cover-up, driving them to the criminal use of naughty language?
- It took more than a year for prosecutor Mitchell to convene a grand jury.
- No officer was called to testify until a few days ago.
- The Texas Rangers hired a doctor to determine if any of the dead victims might have survived if the response had been quicker (at least four still had heartbeats when found).
- Mitchell shut down the doctor’s part of the investigation, and didn’t allow him to review autopsy reports (apparently they’re still sealed since the grand jury is “investigating”).
That last part is key. A determination that any of the children could have lived if the cops had done their jobs would be the most likely basis for criminally charging the cops.
So long as Mitchell is covering for the cops, I hope she remembers to kill any investigation of where the money for Level IV vests for every single Uvalde officer went. They claimed to have the cash in hand four years prior to the school shooting…
… and then pleaded a lack of vests as the reason they didn’t go in against a murderer with a rifle. Can’t have anyone looking into that.
Yep, the Uvalde police can be real brave when an unarmed, grieving parent starts cussing.
(Hat tip to Wisco Dave)