it's just amazing that we have no expectation that cops can stop mass shootings until well after the fact — a real public safety concern that gets to the heart of their alleged mission — but that we'll outfit them with tens of millions of dollars to blow up the homes of citizens https://t.co/bzO4nQ1UNQ
— Joel D. Anderson 🆓 (@byjoelanderson) July 11, 2022
Category: Police State
Hmm
BREAKING: Multiple officers were inside Robb Elementary School with rifles and at least one ballistic shield at 11:52 a.m. the day of the shooting, new video and other evidence shows. They didn’t enter the classroom for another 58 minutes. More soon via @statesman and @KVUE. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/0BcYgq2hcQ
— Tony Plohetski (@tplohetski) June 20, 2022
To serve and protect
For more than an hour, police never tried to open a door to the rooms where a gunman massacred 21 people at Robb Elementary, a source tells me.
The gunman could not have locked it from the inside. The doors can only be locked or unlocked from outside. https://t.co/d6XgEkLe1u
— Brian Chasnoff (@bchasnoff) June 18, 2022
So the good guys with guns did nothing
More than a dozen DPS troopers waited in hallway during Uvalde massacre https://t.co/1m0r54aEzz
— St. John Barned-Smith ⚔️ (@stjbs) June 14, 2022
If they only had a heart
https://twitter.com/ebruenig/status/1535000554782482437
To serve and protect
Three police officers have been placed on administrative leave after they reportedly watched as a man drowned in Tempe Town Lake, transcripts revealed. https://t.co/57vGR8RQvN
— FOX 10 Phoenix (@FOX10Phoenix) June 4, 2022
Some animals are more equal than others
Former Tri-State police chief avoids prison time in ‘machine gun scheme’ https://t.co/yiAfJfpkBU
— Suburban Guerrilla 💙 (@SusieMadrak) June 1, 2022
It’s almost as if they have something to hide
BREAKING: The Uvalde PD and Uvalde Independent School District police force are no longer cooperating with the Texas Dept. of Public Safety's investigation into Robb Elementary School shooting, multiple law enforcement sources tell @ABC News. https://t.co/ORQTMhDstS
— ABC News (@ABC) May 31, 2022
Bad cops
It looks like Uvalde cops have released several contradictory statements about the school shooting.
NBC News: The gunman in Uvalde, TX wore body armor during the attack and initial officers were unable to bring down the shooter and had to wait for tactical teams in order to finally stop the gunman, per Texas DPS to @BreakingChesky at the scene.
— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) May 25, 2022
First we heard that they heroically confronted the shooter and one of them was shot. That never happened.
Then we find out that some of the cops went into the school to get their own kids — while pepper spraying, tasing, and handcuffing parents who were frantically asking why the cops weren’t saving their kids.
Then this:
UPDATE Wednesday 7:45amET:
Texas DPS now says the shooter had a tactical carrier which can be fitted with ballistic protection or it may not be fitted with that protection. It was not body armor they say, upon further review of the scene.
— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) May 25, 2022
Last night, the police released this baffling statement.
NEW: Texas law enforcement officials at a press conference say they believe that all the children that were shot and killed in Uvalde, TX were shot by Salvador Ramos and not anyone else [i.e. law enforcement].
— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) May 25, 2022
Which kind of indicates to me that the cops actually may have shot some of the kids. Rep. Joaquin Castro has asked the FBI to come down and investigate, and I’ll bet they unwind a lot of really bad stuff.
You couldn't ask for a clearer example of why reporters shouldn't trust the police. But they just can't stop themselves. https://t.co/NpIBtmTCk8
— Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org) (@froomkin) May 27, 2022
Imagine that
Ex-Boston police union chief gets 13 years in jail for raping children https://t.co/ElUvpndHv8 via @MailOnline
— Suburban Guerrilla 💙 (@SusieMadrak) April 28, 2022
Rose had been relieved of his weapon and placed on administrative duty, but was returned to full duty after an attorney for the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association wrote to the commissioner in 1997 and threatened to file a grievance, according to the documents, obtained by NBC Boston.
He was then elected president of the Boston Police Patrolman’s Association in 2014 and served until he retired in 2018.