New video of the Uvalde police response to the Robb Elementary Faculty bloodbath exhibits officers stand round whereas a shooter kills college students and lecturers down the hallway.
Uvalde Consolidated Unbiased Faculty District/Austin American-Statesman by way of AP
The Difficulty: A video displaying Uvalde police standing within the hallway through the Robb Elementary taking pictures.
A tragic however grateful bravo for Maureen Callahan’s column on the Uvalde video (“Served and defended — themselves not the children,” July 14). It’s among the best columns of all time.
And sure, we do want the body-cam footage —all of it — launched. America received’t confront this downside so long as it could actually disconnect itself from the horror of what really takes place when this occurs.
Grayson Fullerton
Brooklyn
As I learn Callahan’s column in The Publish, I couldn't consider what I used to be studying. I agree together with her: This was the paradigm of cowardice.
Having high-powered rifles, pistols, ballistic shields and helmets was not sufficient for these officers What number of of them had been up in opposition to one teen with a rifle? How may they not react whereas listening to the screaming of the harmless being slaughtered?
I might fireplace all of them for dereliction of responsibility. That is simply one other instance of this once-great nation falling aside. It’s additionally a stain on the reminiscences of all of the law-enforcement officers who paid the last word sacrifice.
Chris Plate
Waterloo
What number of instances are we going to listen to this phony mantra from the NRA about supporting a “good man” with a gun to take down a “dangerous man” with a gun?
Precisely what number of “good guys” had been standing round cleansing their fingers and checking their telephones whereas 21 innocents had been slaughtered in Uvalde by madman Salvador Ramos?
An identical situation occurred on the 2018 Parkland Excessive Faculty mass homicide when the opposite “good man” answerable for guaranteeing security deserted his submit.
What this nation wants proper now could be smart gun reform legal guidelines and swift motion in opposition to the cowardly officers who stood round and let these lovely youngsters die.
Anthony Scro
Whitestone
I’d prefer to say one thing in regards to the headline on Wednesday’s Publish. I understand that the cops at Robb Elementary failed of their accountability to guard these youngsters.
Nevertheless, we have to do not forget that the overwhelming majority of cops exit and endanger — and infrequently sacrifice — their lives to maintain all of us secure.
John Francis Fox
Sunnyside
Watching the video of the cowards of the Uvalde Police Division is sickening.
How do they nonetheless have jobs? Are the folks of Texas that silly to let the UPD off the hook?
They need to all be prosecuted for second-degree homicide. The one issues lacking had been poker playing cards, chips, pizza and beer. They swore an oath to guard the general public. They heard the screams and carnage, but did nothing.
The place is the state lawyer common on this? That is quick changing into a coverup. If the folks of Texas let this go unanswered, they are going to be accomplices to the following act of a madman.
Storm Destro
Bayonne, NJ
Rifle-toting, body-armor-clad officers stood in an Uvalde elementary faculty whereas a gunman slaughtered 19 college students and two lecturers. The officers lolled within the hallway, and it took them 77 minutes to kill the gunman.
The officers’ gross cowardice, negligence and nonfeasance was merciless and felony.
If the prosecutor fails to indict these so-called officers, it’s crucial that voters expel the prosecutor.
This case is a rebuke of certified immunity, a doctrine that immunizes officers from being subjected to civil courtroom proceedings except they violate a statutory or constitutional proper.
Marc Greenwood
Opelika, Ala.
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