John Deering for June 01, 2022

The PD and the school district now refuse to answer any more questions.

They have the right to remain silent…

Oh, and they now admit that the door was indeed closed. The teacher did close it so there’s one less scapegoat.

And that’s why they are keeping quiet now.

They could start with those silly aZZed cowboy hats.

The NRA is glad to have everyone focused on the police response while ignoring “the gun in the room”.

But all our blue line flags and “we support” lawn signs :(

They should all turn in their badges. Also I’ll bet their cars have the “to serve and protect” on them

Another poster remarked that if they were military, rather than civilian, they’d all be court-martialed.

Never thought I’d call those who serve and protect spineless.

They probably had trouble remembering which shirt pocket they kept their bullet in.

Unfortunately, the Supreme Court decided that police are not obligated to protect citizens. Castle Rock vs Gonzales, 2005, 04-278. Scalia and his majority said that Ms Gonzales did not have a “property interest” in asking the local police to enforce a PFA that was in force and thus her three children were murdered by her estranged husband. The police exist to protect “property”, not people.

I wonder if the ethnic origin of many of the kids and teachers had anything to do with the police hesitancy to act and thus risk their own lives.

As the number of school resource officers has ballooned over the last two decades, so has the number of school shootings. There is no evidence that police have the ability to stop these shootings from happening. Resource officers in my grandkids’ schools are employed by private companies, would they be effective? Might have to attend a school board meeting.

Normally, I support law enforcement, but in this case, I don’t. The cops’ inaction caused so many unnecessary deaths, and I think that, like the cartoon says, they should all get fired and just start over again with cops who are willing to do what they’re supposed to do.

Demolishing the school building and rebuilding it in another location makes sense to regressives and some that just want to hide the occurrence. Make it a shrine to what must never happen again. The Alamo, as an example.

I know everyone, including myself, is at the point of sickened outrage over this, but there are so many stories still being put out there I’d like the final version. Was this a school-created police “department”? What is the connection between the school cops and the town cops? Who received what training? Why was active-shooter protocol not followed? Who SHOULD have been in charge of the scene? Has Arredondo yet been required to speak to the investigators? Too many questions, awaiting a tsunami of blame amid all the unspeakable grief.

We’ll just have to wait and see what , if anything, comes from the justice dept. review.I’m not really hoping it’s a teachable moment, but it should be. That department had active shooter training just weeks before. There should be some local officials being subpoenaed to testify under oath, just for starters.

The arrogant Texas cops keep changing their story.