TX school shooting-please help me get this thought out of my mind.

[PA_jen]

Okay I will admit I am so sicken by what I am Hearing about police waiting up to an hour to go in to try and stop the shooting. Fighting and arresting parents who beg them to save their children and even arresting parents.

And superior power above help me- I can't stop myself from wondering if the delay and inaction might have been race motivated.

I feel terrible thinking this but I keep thinking of those sweet angels and those Republican white men and I get angry thinking Abbott and his ilk would actually be that sick.

I think I need to take a break from the news and I am probably seeing the worse in everything but part of me is like you can't deny the truth.

Please set me straight.

[elleng]

1. Forget it, please.

Uvalde police force is/was largely 'brown.'

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216733718

The 'force' was/is not well-experienced trained, imo.

[BlackSkimmer]

3. Thank you.

I'm finding this narrative very disturbing. Children are dead, and their deaths should not be used in this way.

[PA_jen]

9. I am not using it in anyway. I need to understand this. I just coming to terms with the Buffalo

Shootings. I can't keep hearing about all this violance! I am tired and angry and feel defeated!

[BlackSkimmer]

10. No, I don't think you are.

But several here are doing just that.

[PA_jen]

5. I do apologize I think with everything else that has been happening my mind is thinking that way.

But when I hear U S Marshalls and Board Control had been involved.... I know I terrible. I need to take a a news hiatus.


I really need a nightly dose of Rachel. Maddow really help me thru the news...

[PA_jen]

6. I do apologize I think with everything else that has been happening my mind is thinking that way.

But when I hear U S Marshalls and Board Control had been involved.... I know I terrible. I need to take a a news hiatus.


I really need a nightly dose of Rachel. Maddow really help me thru the news...

[treestar]

7. Interesting how some assume

that all cops are white.

[Rebl2]

2. Seems like

some of the police there were Latino, so don’t think it was because of race. Think the local police were outgunned (not an excuse in my opinion) and waited to long for border patrol to show up.

[EYESORE 9001]

4. There are numerous reasons to be upset about the shooting

but racial motivation for inaction on the part of the police is not among them. Not for me, anyway. It’s an abstract tangent that is frankly not worth ruminating over.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. I think most all of the swat team was non-white, from the pics

As to local LE, perhaps the same. Now if you can link delays to budgets that were subpar by region, that would be one thing. But to connect it to actual decision making ... I sure hope not.

Where did this loser get the $$$$ to buy his arsenal? He must have paid close to $4,000 for it all.

[WiscNastyWoman]

11. Uvalde

Please remember the population of the city is only 15000. There is likely responders Involved that have other full time jobs and respond as needed. Not every small town has a swat team type unit sitting around playing cards at their headquarters waiting for the next assault. The first officers on scene with probably no more than hand guns are no match for an assault rifle. Center of command to coordinate? Way too many facts unknown and unfair to judge the local officials here...or Buffalo,...or all the other past and future locations. The fault should be directed to lack of gun control legislation and not banning assault weapons.

[ananda]

12. The whole thing stinks to high heaven, for sure!

It sure looks like the cops were more against the parents
than the shooter.

It's hard to wrap my mind around, how people can be
such callous cowards in the face of such a tragedy.

[Diablo del sol]

13. In my opinion, no

More like survival instincts kicking in.

I can't truly say how I would react facing a similar type situation. We all think we would rush in, I think I would, hope I would, but hell I might freeze up.

What I wouldn't do, pull a tazer to try to "control" parents in grief. So some of those assholes in the picture. I condemn them for those acts.

[70sEraVet]

14. I've had tears reading through posts about Robb elementary shooting,

but when I saw video of young boy (age 8, maybe) telling what he saw and heard, I broke down in uncontrollable sobs. I had to stop and do something else for a couple of hours. Lucky me -- I do get to forget for a little while.

[ymetca]

15. They were following instructions

which their superiors now will have to defend. There is no greater "shield" against accountability than bureaucracy. Policies and procedures will change. Someone will have to take the fall, they're just deciding who. That person will agree to leave, preserving whatever benefits they bargain for, and enveloped with a NDA, precluding any talk with the media. Top brass has probably already hired an outside "team" to manage the whole thing, or will real soon. There's a whole "crisis management playbook" for these events. It's a growing "market"!

Now, as to the shooter's motivations.. still pretty murky there. But seems like yet still another "payback massacre" for a lousy childhood.

Meanwhile, you can purchase a kevlar backpack for your wunderkind, on sale now for about a hundred bucks! Not including shipping and handling.

Now that god is money, we all just have to die tryin'.