As The Texas Tribune reports, “Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw told a state Senate committee Tuesday that the law enforcement response to the Uvalde school shooting was an ‘abject failure’ and police could have stopped the shooter at Robb Elementary School three minutes after arriving were it not for the indecisiveness of the on-scene commander, who ‘decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children.’ McCraw said the inexplicable conduct by Uvalde school district police Chief Pete Arredondo was antithetical to two decades of police training since the Columbine High School massacre, which dictates that officers confront active shooters as quickly as possible.”
I believe I was the first one — that I know of — to call these sh*thole Texas police cowards. I called them cowards two days after the massacre in a post, long before the real story seeped out and long before anyone else did, because it doesn’t take a genius to see — even from the outside — that the police did not do their job. When 19 children are murdered, and all the police suffered was a grazed wound, then by definition, the police are cowards. And now it seems others are finally catching on to their cowardly inaction. Cowards! Cowards! Cowards! And apparently, they’re lazy as well. They just stood around for 60 minutes, looking at each other and wondering what to do. It astonishes me that we have not had news of suicides by these cowards. I’m not sure how they could possibly live with themselves, knowing that their cowardice directly caused the death of children. Then again, this is sh*thole Texas where “tuff” boy, ten-gallon cowboy hat-wearing, get-your-hands-off-my-gun totting, “freedom” loving citizens project strength but are nothing more than cowards and bullies. Welcome to stupid America!