The function of police is control, and their chief activity is to project their image as glorious. "To protect and serve" is self-satisfying propaganda, or copaganda. Many government officials are complicit in, and actively engage in this gaslighting of the public. By granting police discretionary judgment to act they have license to do anything, and nothing.
The massacre at Uvalde [24 May 2022] is to be remembered for two reasons. The first is of mass murder, the unnecessary and brutal deaths of 21 people, 19 children in the fourth grade, and two teachers. In addition: 14 other children, and a teacher were wounded. The second is the mass cowardice of the police.
There was a security camera that showed the 19 armed police standing in a hallway. One of their finest pumped a sanitizer dispenser on a wall. Yes, i noticed the Lady MacBeth ritual. The spot will never wash away. That video was leaked to the public. Uvalde's district attorney did not want that released. Police dislike cameras. Police regularly, and so in Uvalde, did and do not want police records made available. All sorts of reasons are, and were used to suppress evidence. Police want their actions secret, so to be able to present a version of events that only reflects well on them. Reality is often a foe, and something to be scared of.
Depending on your age, you may remember a time when the murder by long guns of civilians was not a common occurrence in the United States. Texas seems to be the harbinger, and ground zero of this common American phenomena [it does happen elsewhere]. The assassination of President John Kennedy (and a patrolman) truly shocked the country. After that, the University of Texas Tower sniper [1 August 1966] made mass shootings a new American hallmark of behaviour. Charles Whitman, a former Marine as Oswald was, killed his mother, and then his wife, stabbing both. He used a hunting rifle, and other weapons. He shot to death 14, and wounded 31, until he was shot and killed. That was the most murderous use of guns by one man in one day in America. Now it is #10. Other ones that have surpassed it in Texas are Uvalde at #8; El Paso Walmart 2019, where a man drove across Texas to find Mexicans to kill at#7; Luby’s Cafeteria in Killeen 1991 at #6, it was #1; First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs 2017 is #5. The period of 1994-2004, which co-incides with the assault weapons ban does not place on the list.
376 police of several varieties were at the school when the killer was there. Most proved to be cowards. They were well armed, well financed, and had extra and specific training. They had so many officials willing to lie for them, and to attack anyone who opposed their lies, and actions. Governor Greg Abbott lied for them. Cowboy hatted, Director and Colonel of the Texas Department of Public Safety, Steve C. McCraw, lied aplenty, and directed blame at innocents. Uvalde city government went to extreme lying, "There was zero hesitation on any of these officers’ part, they moved directly toward the gunfire", "The total number of persons saved by the heroes that are local law enforcement and the other assisting agencies is over 500".
One lie was a cop shot at the killer, and the killer hit him, before the killer entered the school. That was all false. There were many lies told to protect the police, and if others suffered—so what?
Cowboy McCraw lied that a teacher propped the door open, through which the killer entered. That was a lie. She called 911 from when she saw the killer crash the vehicle he was driving. She shut the door. The lock mechanism did not work. From the lie told against her, she suffered vilification and mental distress.
All the killing took place in two adjoining rooms. Video shows cops did not attempt the door for 77 minutes. McCraw lied that the door was locked. The door could only be locked from the outside. Its locking mechanism had been reported as not working. The police had possession of a fireman's Halligan tool, which rips doors open. It was not used. In that one lie, he told several—very economical.
A stupid cop move was when one called out, "Yell if you need help!". A girl did, and was then shot. There is certainly more to find out, and perhaps some of it will be known to the public.
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postscriptum: i started writing this in August. My disgust was great. I thought there would be more information coming out. I know, many people want zero things said against police. Police vociferously attack anyone who does. There are individuals who have credibility, but it is prudent to be skeptical about anything the police say.
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