Current Events > The Uvalde Teacher closed the door. She's been wrongfully blamed by police.

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https://katv.com/news/nation-world/exclusive-video-clears-teacher -wrongly-accused-of-propping-door-in-uvalde-school-shooting-robb -elementary-department-public-safety

I put space bars in the link since it's apparently too long.

So basically, in the wake of the shooting, law enforcement claimed that a teacher left the door propped open which is how the shooter was able to get in. This ruined her career and psychological well-being, because obviously it did.

And it has now been factually proven as false. Video footage in the link above now shows that she did indeed close the door. The door was still openable from the outside, which is obviously not her fault.

In other words, law enforcement officers in this situation displayed a complete lack of courage and concern for the well-being of children, and then they tried to blame a teacher and ruined her career in order to take the blame off of themselves. I hope she sues the pants off of them for ruining her life.

And, of course, law enforcement in Uvalde has since taken on a habit of harassing the parents of the kids involved in the shooting, including pulling them over for no reason. Not sure if it's been known in the past, but this is the first I'm hearing of it, so might as well link it:

https://www.salon.com/2024/01/19/uvalde-parents-say-cops- are-harassing-them-in-the-wake-of-the-robb-elementary-school/

And of course, more documentation has come out that the parents were literally *BEGGING* the cops to go in and save their kids and the cops just froze in fear.

https://www.wgal.com/article/uvalde-records/65675158

In other words, this notion that law enforcement can be depended on to protect you in a difficult situation is just not true. They can't.

They just want to do anything to take the blame off all the officers standing around outside the classrooms, while people were dying. I hope the citizens sue the cities police station.

Dark_Moon posted...

They just want to do anything to take the blame off all the officers standing around outside the classrooms, while people were dying. I hope the citizens sue the cities police station.

If I recall they voted to increase police funding

This is absolutely fucked up.

The cops that 'responded' to the Uvalde shooting is one of the biggest justifications for the acronym existing.

Dark_Moon posted...

They just want to do anything to take the blame off all the officers standing around outside the classrooms, while people were dying. I hope the citizens sue the cities police station.

Frankly, at this point, I don't know why they're even bothering to pass the buck. The SCROTUS already ruled that cops have absolutely no obligation to protect citizens, you'd think they'd just own that shit and come right out and say that they don't give a fuck whether your kids live or die.

SpawnShadow posted...

Frankly, at this point, I don't know why they're even bothering to pass the buck. The SCROTUS already ruled that cops have absolutely no obligation to protect citizens, you'd think they'd just own that shit and come right out and say that they don't give a fuck whether your kids live or die.

Because they like the hero worship.

And I'd be totally fine with giving it to them if they actually earned it. There are cops who *do* deserve to be respected for how they act.

The cops at Uvalde? Cowards.

SSj4Wingzero posted...

Because they like the hero worship.

And I'd be totally fine with giving it to them if they actually earned it. There are cops who *do* deserve to be respected for how they act.

The cops at Uvalde? Cowards.

I mean, it seems like they'd still get their regular dose of unearned hero worship no matter what they said or did. They could have unzipped their pants and jacked off to the child carnage in front of those cameras, and the right-wingers and centrists would still be calling the Uvalde cops "heroes".

Oh, and here another fucking great gem:

An officer named Crimson Elizondo was employed by the Texas Department of Public Safety as a trooper. She was under investigation for her poor conduct during the massacre. As a result, she chose to retire from the Texas Department of Public Safety (so she faces no serious consequences).

What does she do immediately afterwards? She fucking gets hired by the Uvalde School District's police department. The same school district where she, working in a different capacity for a different law enforcement agency, displayed poor conduct resulting in her being under investigation.

The school district ultimately fires her after the parents raise hell, but the fact that they even hired her in the first place, or that she even had the balls to apply for that job despite being under investigation for sucking at her previous one, is just more obvious proof that law enforcement really cannot be trusted to protect people. There is a systemic failure when it comes to making sure that they actually have people who can be trusted to do the jobs correctly.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-trooper-investigation-uvalde-massacre-response-now-cop/story?id=91080756

The school district is lucky that the parents simply raised hell and complained. I am legitimately surprised that none of the parents has yet taken matters into their own hands.

The teacher mentions that she was locked out from that door the day before the event happened, so the shooter being able to open it after she firmly closed it is probably explained by some fault with the door itself.

untrustful posted...

The teacher mentions that she was locked out from that door the day before the event happened, so the shooter being able to open it after she firmly closed it is probably explained by some fault with the door itself.

Either that, or someone unlocked it for whatever reason. Usually teachers do not have the ability to lock the doors outside or inside schools. And in any case, the ultimate culprits of this massacre, besides the shooter himself, are:

-The police for standing by and waiting outside the classroom while the shooter killed kids
-The police who, even after being called to the shooter's residence as a result of a domestic disturbance between him and his mother, did nothing to monitor or do a damn thing about this clearly disturbed and deranged individual
-The Republican Party for continuously working to make guns easier for people (including mass shooters) to get
-The voters who continuously allow these shitty-ass politicians into office

That entire department should have been dismantled and those cops should have to work different careers.

Uvalde officials being dirty cowards not just when it comes to rescuing kids.

I think if something like Uvalde ever happens again, parents should all just run into the school. Cops can't stop them all

solosnake posted...

That entire department should have been dismantled and those cops should have to work different careers.

In texas?

Zikten posted...

I think if something like Uvalde ever happens again, parents should all just run into the school. Cops can't stop them all

Cops would respond with excessive force in this scenario.

__starsnostars posted...

Cops would respond with excessive force in this scenario.

If cops gun down parents outside a school while inside, a crazy person is killing the kids, I think that would be enough to spark nationwide civil unrest. If the cops are that stupid as to do that.....

Also most parents I think would rather die trying to save their kid than to just stand around

Remember the mother who managed to slip past the police, enter the school and rescue her kids? She's been harassed by those police since that day to the point she had to move.

Those officers need to be publicly named and shamed at this rate.

SSj4Wingzero posted...

and then they tried to blame a teacher and

I'm not sure there wasn't a single fact the cops in Uvalde didn't make up some lie about. Every press conference contradicted the last, and every time it seemed more and more deliberate.

SSj4Wingzero posted...

Not sure if it's been known in the past

You posting is the first I've heard of it, too. It's been a while since I've been this mad at the news, which is not an easy accomplishment these days.

SSj4Wingzero posted...

In other words, this notion that law enforcement can be depended on to protect you in a difficult situation is just not true. They can't.

They never could. Not one cop in one city in one state in this country. It's not how the institution was built or works.

Policing is, by its nature, reactive. You call them after a crime has been committed to solve it. They are not designed, by and large, to respond to active crimes in progress or prevent crimes from happening. Look at how their training says to approach crimes in progress. It's not designed to stop the crime as much as it seems to be every time to escalate the situation and make it more dangerous regardless of the crime severity.

Also, policing is about protecting property. Not people. They were never going to protect you, even if they coud be proactive about crime and deterrence.

solosnake posted...

That entire department should have been dismantled and those cops should have to work different careers.

The police officer that I told you about? The Texas Department of Public Safety officer who was under investigation for fucking up, "retired" from the Texas DPS, and then immediately got hired by the Uvalde School District, and only got fired from the Uvalde School District after parents raised hell?

She was recorded on body camera footage outside the school saying, and I quote, "If my son had been in there, I would not have been outside...I promise you that."

I do not think that working a different career is appropriate for an individual like that. I think that individual should be in prison. Public servants who are so negligent at their jobs that they enable harm and menace to the public should be imprisoned. Police officers want respect from the public? You'll get it if you actually hold yourself to a high standard of conduct.

DnDer posted...

I'm not sure there wasn't a single fact the cops in Uvalde didn't make up some lie about. Every press conference contradicted the last, and every time it seemed more and more deliberate.

I'm an educator. It strikes a pretty hard nerve. Every year, we get recommendations from local police departments on how to act in case of an emergency, and we go through drills on how we should respond to these horrible scenarios. To see a police department act so callously and with such disregard for the lives of students is incredibly fucking disgusting, and to see them throw a teacher under the bus for their own failures as human beings is just an insult to our profession as a whole. It's really an insult to the human race.

Teachers are trained every single year to follow certain procedures. If we don't, we face serious discipline. It's about time that same courtesy were extended to police officers.

DnDer posted...

You posting is the first I've heard of it, too. It's been a while since I've been this mad at the news, which is not an easy accomplishment these days.

I am surprised that no Uvalde parent has taken the law into their own hands at this point. The officers who responded to the shooting are the scum of the Earth. I do not know how they live, knowing that these scum still walk the Earth while their own children and children's teachers are dead.

DnDer posted...

Policing is, by its nature, reactive. You call them after a crime has been committed to solve it. They are not designed, by and large, to respond to active crimes in progress or prevent crimes from happening. Look at how their training says to approach crimes in progress. It's not designed to stop the crime as much as it seems to be every time to escalate the situation and make it more dangerous regardless of the crime severity.

And that's why I think public safety has to be seriously re-imagined and re-considered.

For starters, we should make it much more difficult for deranged young people with a clear history of legal and mental problems to get guns. Within HOURS of this shooting, we were able to find a treasure trove of information about this guy, including incredibly disturbing online behavior, a history of violent behavior (including police once being called to his house), and other details showing that he definitely SHOULD NOT have been given access to any weapons.

We couldn't have done this before he committed the shooting? No, of course we could have. If we bothered to care about it. But half of our Congressional representatives don't care, which is the problem.

ACAB

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Police need a scapegoat for their fuckups