Authorities believe the former agent – believed to be from Texas – was one of at least six individuals who regularly communicated with accused gunman Payton Gendron in an online chat room where racist hatred was discussed, the two officials said.
its me the former federal agent chillin in a chat with psychopaths and racists
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Saturday, 28 May 2022 17:00 (one year ago) link
Wondering if the watch commander/Police Chief(30 year veteran of Law Enforcement) was getting the word about 911 calls---not that,as harbl observed, he should have waited to see if someone might be, you know, bleeding to death---also wonder, since he did choose to wait for "equipment" to arrive before attempting entry---rather than getting keys from janitor, and entering with a shield, which was already on hand, as CNN reports the Border Patrol agents finally did---why said equipment hadn't already showed up: so, while not excusing the watch commander at all, seems like systemic/shitstemic failure also played an important role. (Has an FBI investigation been announced?)
Also, have not yet noticed talking TV heads making this central point:
even if we turn these schools into impregnable fortresses with a single entrance and Vietnam Vets hiding inside every other locker it still wouldn't change much, since these violent psychos will just decide to shoot up a shopping mall, or a parade, or a grocery store, or a day care instead. it's like the "sell your home and move" solution to climate change. of course there's no purpose in pointing this out, cuz it's not like they really care about fixing this in the first place. just another thing to be mad about.― frogbs, Friday, May 27, 2022 1
― frogbs, Friday, May 27, 2022 1
― dow, Saturday, 28 May 2022 17:35 (one year ago) link
i read the most recent breakdown of events & am speechless that there were like, NINETEEN? of these mfers INSIDE ? the school while the shooting is happening! for at least 30 minutes! while a kid in the classroomcalled 911 like 4 times the cops were fully there just chilling in the hallway. i mean just WHAT the fuckuntil now i had thought they were all outside waiting to go inwhich is still horrifying but jesus now i am speechless at the logistical fuckery or lack of it idkit was infuriating from the beginning and now i’ve wasted so much anger being upset about it 24/7 i’m just like, limpand fuckin tasing parents outside and shit it’s all just so brutal & incompetent & egregious
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 May 2022 18:40 (one year ago) link
for whatever reason, a lot police use this street over by my residence. thought about making a big sign that just says "COWARDS" and sitting out at the intersection all weekend and holding it up anytime one of their little convoys comes past.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Saturday, 28 May 2022 19:01 (one year ago) link
cops know they have built-in trust with enough of the population that at least 40% won't blame them for what happened, no matter what they do. they don't even have to make excuses - their bootlickers already do it for them.
they know they're going to get funding and aren't at legal risk thanks to SCOTUS, so they aren't afraid to do what they need to in order to come home that night. like letting the shooter expend his bullets.
that precinct , shame if something happened to it
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Saturday, 28 May 2022 19:06 (one year ago) link
xp I’d be careful with that. Cowardice has a lot of different ways of expressing itself. Some of them involve ignoring duty, others are about exerting power over others to compensate
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 28 May 2022 19:07 (one year ago) link
just thinking out loud.
police are the true "founding fathers" —and coincidentally the collective abusive father figure— of america.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Saturday, 28 May 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
"the founding fathers were some abusive ass parents" by charles mingus (1958)
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Saturday, 28 May 2022 19:40 (one year ago) link
Documents posted by NYTimes reporter make point even pointier, detailing all the training ignored:
I have spent the past few days researching the training of Uvalde officers, including the tactics they were expected to use to halt school shooters. The documents are jarring. Here’s a thread of our findings so far.1/9— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) May 28, 2022
― dow, Saturday, 28 May 2022 19:44 (one year ago) link
and you just know that the response to all this will include many people solemnly stating that the best solution will be "more training"
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 28 May 2022 19:57 (one year ago) link
what is needed is for a non-partisan board in TX to conduct a study on the important issue of mass shootings, to try to identify what we can do that is not difficult
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 28 May 2022 19:59 (one year ago) link
Documents posted by NYTimes reporter make point even pointier, detailing all the training ignored:― dow, Saturday, May 28, 2022 12:44 PM
― dow, Saturday, May 28, 2022 12:44 PM
it really does get worse the further you read.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Saturday, 28 May 2022 21:37 (one year ago) link
retail employees look at someone the wrong way and that's enough to get them canned. these people disobeyed direct training and let children die.
the level of accountability that's lacking is startling.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Saturday, 28 May 2022 21:41 (one year ago) link
i know & accept acab but in terms of the job i also think abt other instances where law enforcement did act & put themselves in harms way to protect victims & for them to see other law enforcement officers in another jurisdiction ~collectively~ just completely lay down on the job & not even achieve any level of basic protection
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 May 2022 23:34 (one year ago) link
I've got a good friend who worked in the police force to a pretty high level and he is one of the harshest critics of policing I've ever known - in the UK, but ACAB applies everywhere afaict.
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Saturday, 28 May 2022 23:40 (one year ago) link
The @NRA is currently promoting the specific gun model used to murder 19 kids and 2 teachers at Uvalde as part of a "banned guns giveaway," along with 1,000 rounds of ammo. https://t.co/ykBK7EtNuH pic.twitter.com/MWWPZP6iCM— Christopher Ingraham (@_cingraham) May 27, 2022
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 29 May 2022 01:23 (one year ago) link
A lot of 'how could he afford it' false flag right-wingers suddenly unfamiliar with the concept of credit cards and convinced that AR-15s cost $10k.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 29 May 2022 02:31 (one year ago) link
Small town neighbors getting together, glad to see each other, missing the others, description of the shooter's grandmother, in the hospital now, shooter was one of the neighborhood kids too: not a harrowing listen, exactly, but in the twilight (about 4 minutes): https://www.npr.org/2022/05/28/1101955123/in-uvalde-tragedy-brings-a-community-together
― dow, Sunday, 29 May 2022 03:22 (one year ago) link
Made me feel a little better, ultimately, or wouldn't have mentioned it at this point
― dow, Sunday, 29 May 2022 03:53 (one year ago) link
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/sheriff-husband-suspected-killings-woman-3-kids-rcna31026?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma&fbclid=IwAR2_a7tjLg5t8uVv4_FFjfZBSsZt12pJYmiEeGx1BHMBLXWWUtQvcyLNkbM
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 29 May 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
Hell, I didn’t even make the paper‘Cause I only killed one man—Steve Earle, 1990
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Monday, 30 May 2022 00:11 (one year ago) link
Missing context makes for a weird detail in that one:
The person who alerted authorities was outside the home when deputies arrived and was not shot
― Kim Kimberly, Monday, 30 May 2022 00:38 (one year ago) link
BREAKING: Uvalde residents boo Texas Governor Greg Abbott as he pays his respects at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde Texas | @TPUSA pic.twitter.com/4JSipaKOvv— Drew Hernandez (@DrewHLive) May 29, 2022
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 30 May 2022 18:53 (one year ago) link
otm. the least he deserves
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 May 2022 19:03 (one year ago) link
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/30/americas/canada-handgun-sales-cap/index.html
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 03:13 (one year ago) link
And now this
https://abcnews.go.com/US/uvalde-police-school-district-longer-cooperating-texas-probe/story?id=85093405
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 21:43 (one year ago) link
I can't imagine that will go well for them
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 21:47 (one year ago) link
Huh, who'd have ever guessed that there might be implications after spending years making sure there is absolutely no punishment whatsoever for not cooperating with any sort of government investigation, probe or inquiry.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 21:49 (one year ago) link
At the NRA Convention someone told us that hammers are used to kill more people than guns. So we looked up the stats in front of them. pic.twitter.com/ju5R8Pqbvk— The Good Liars (@TheGoodLiars) May 31, 2022
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:28 (one year ago) link
later that guy (probably one of his friends) will find where that "stat" came from that conclusively showed he was wrong, and they will attack whoever or whatever institution did the study or collected the data. it won't be hard for them to find that it is somehow connected to a university or department or professor, or was possibly funded by george soros, or both.
but it is temporarily satisfying and even addictive to confront complete fools like that guy and just tell them to their face how wrong they are. but it also doesn't change anything at all, ever. it is completely ineffective today
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:44 (one year ago) link
My colleagues' eyebrows went up like the curtain at the Met when a month ago during a teaching presentation I insisted, after teaching rhetoric for years, that we gotta stop teaching students as if facts mattered.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:50 (one year ago) link
otm and completely evident in the way that guy neverthelesses back to the 2nd amendment being "important to him" on a personal level
― rob, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 18:09 (one year ago) link
Really hoping Channel 5 made it out to GunCon
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 19:44 (one year ago) link
Clinic shooting in Tulsa
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 23:32 (one year ago) link
4 dead as of now (including suspect).
https://katu.com/news/nation-world/police-say-multiple-injuries-in-hospital-shooting-scene-described-as-catastrophic-warren-clinic-tulsa-police-department-suspect-down-shots-fired-shooting-searching-floor-by-floor
― nickn, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 23:45 (one year ago) link
Yet another door problem
― frogbs, Thursday, 2 June 2022 00:04 (one year ago) link
same as it ever was
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Thursday, 2 June 2022 00:05 (one year ago) link
Jesus the subway shooting was a month and a half agoSeems like forever ago already
― rare lipstick or mohawks that somehow make them more valuable (President Keyes), Thursday, 2 June 2022 01:21 (one year ago) link
Police have said a gunman who killed three employees and a patient at an Oklahoma hospital was targeting the surgeon who performed his back surgery.
He had purchased a semi-automatic AR15-style rifle just hours before the shooting, and was also armed with a handgun, police said.
Starting to see a pattern emerging here
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 2 June 2022 16:57 (one year ago) link
look nothing you’re proposing would have stopped this okay trust me
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 2 June 2022 17:46 (one year ago) link
When it comes to gun laws, think of the possible innocent victims. My latest:https://t.co/AH6yCSUcsM— Stan Kelly (@KartoonistKelly) June 2, 2022
― frogbs, Thursday, 2 June 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
What the fuck was the grudge about his back surgery if the cunt was able to tote an ar-15
― Coast to coast, LA to Chicago, Western Mail (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 2 June 2022 18:12 (one year ago) link
Not much to tote - an AR weighs less than a bichon frise.
― peace, man, Thursday, 2 June 2022 18:20 (one year ago) link
But it has more of a kick.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 2 June 2022 18:27 (one year ago) link
Gang Of Four said it best ...
Armalite rifle, police and IRAArmalite rifle, use it everydayBreaks down easy, fits into a pramA child can carry it, do it no harm
Breaks down easy, fits into a pramA child can carry it, do it no harm
― nickn, Thursday, 2 June 2022 18:36 (one year ago) link
My partner always cautions people against getting back surgery for the purpose of alleviating pain, since there's absolutely no guarantee of that happening (despite what surgeons say). I guess this is why?
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 2 June 2022 18:43 (one year ago) link
that's what fentanyl is for
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 2 June 2022 18:51 (one year ago) link
^Amy Grant's best moment
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Thursday, 2 June 2022 18:51 (one year ago) link
to help us snooze it
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 June 2022 18:57 (one year ago) link