Lawrence: How Does A Texas Police Chief Go AWOL?
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Exactly one week after the mass murder at Robb Elementary School, not a single officer who responded to the shooting in Uvalde, Texas, has been fired despite the delayed response. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains the crisis in governance happening in Texas from Uvalde all the way up to Gov. Greg Abbott.
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Federal investigators from outside of Texas need to be brought in. The whole state stinks of endemic corruption.
They act like their living in the 19th century and are immune from accountability. 🤬
my sentiments exactly
Yes I agree investigators from outside of Texas need to comb through this meticulously.
DOJ launched a fake investigation, in that the body picked to do the investigation has no ability or authority to do an investigation. They said they can only do another timeline.
Welcome to texas...first time?
19 “ professionally trained " officers versus 1 single gunman. No one dared to storm the classroom despite kids were begging for rescue. If this is not Disgraceful or Shameful, I really don't know what is.
19 Publicly Educated children GAVE their LIVES for the Officer Safety Policy of the Uvalde, Tx. Police and Border Patrol. Child Heroes... Cowardly KKKops... Texas, Your state is burning.
Your President ordered the police not to go in.
@@justwaitaminute u pulled that lie straight out your A$$
@@justwaitaminute Does it take practice to lie at every opportunity or does it come naturally.
This is sickening
Does anyone REALLY believe no council meeting was decided "out of respect"? They were just avoiding more questions and protests. How corrupt can they be? Now we know. They demonstrated NO RESPECT.
Amen to that!
How could he accept being sworn in at a time like this.
@@fireskycam9889 Because he is amoral.
@@fireskycam9889 Because he starts getting paid in the new position upon taking the oath. Isn't this double-dipping? How did he get elected? How about a recall straight away? Send this double-dipping jerk to the ash heap.
@@gerrybeckingsale9973 Amoral or Immoral? I Think it is rather the latter.
It's funny how cops and other Republicans are always saying things like "if you haven't done anything wrong, then you have nothing to fear [from talking to the police]". The fact that that police chief is actively avoiding investigators and refusing to talk with them is his tacit admission that he HAS done something wrong (legally, not just morally) and he knows it. On a related note, if police officers don't have to talk to investigators (other police officers), then why should any member of the public?
What makes you think the average citizen has to talk to the police? Let's not be one to spread that information because it is wrong. You have the inherent right to not speak to any law enforcement officer about anything.
@@shortchange26 "What makes you think the average citizen has to talk to the police?" - I don't think the average citizen HAS to talk to the police. Every citizen has the right to remain silent. However, we all know that police put immense pressure (and, frequently, illegal tactics) to "encourage" (force) people to talk to them. My point was that if this police chief refuses to talk to investigators, then police have no reason to expect the average citizen to talk to them.
I didn't realize cops were Republicans. Must be a requirement to go to the academy. Thanks for that piece of information.
@@shortchange26 "Anything you say can and WILL be used against you in a court of law". Never for you. If you decide not to talk to police, advise them you're invoking the 5th. If it comes to an arrest say nothing to anyone except your lawyer, not the guy in the hallway or in the cell next to you. Anything you say basically voids your invocation of the 5th.
Most Republicans don't think that way. Who told you they did?
Can you imagine looking grieving parents in the face and saying "It could gave been worse". Have these people lost their minds?
its Texas, they try to sweep it all under the rug again and again and the voters let them get away with it. theres something going on down there that nobody is talking about, and its going to come out at some point. just look at ken Paxton, there indicted AG that has yet to have to sit before a judge in court. Texas is as corrupt as they come.
No, they lost their soul. The mind is pointless if you have no soul. The mind is like a computer. Very good for storing data. Remembering dates and figures, how to drive and where the closest McDonald's is. It's the soul that makes compassion and empathy and the ability to feel what someone's else's experience might be like.
Do anything of those things there remind you of the people you are speaking about?
No, of course not, they've lost their soul. And do you know what lost souls do so they don't have to face what's become of them? They seek any kind of worldly power they can grasp. Don't ask me why, it's just what they do. Possibly has something to do with whoever they sold their soul over to. I don't know.
He could have said worse. Like, they should have just complied. That's what blacks are told.
The police were probably waiting for the gunman to use all his ammo on the kids. What's more offensive than that joke, are what these police are saying after the fact to cover for themselves.
Facts
Imagine being the parent of one of those dead kids and the governor comes and tells you “it could’ve been worse”. And then praises the “brave” men of law enforcement who in reality were the cowards who let this happen in the first place.
Imagine your baby is going into the ground, but a "cop" still has all of his ammo on his belt- did not fire a single bullet!!! Few years ago, an unarmed recent immigrant named Amadou Diallo was riddled with 41 police bullets on his own property. Until America comes "clean" about itself, things including mass school shootings will get "messier"...
Dario Gomez
My kid would have never been in that school without proper security.
@@alexhamilton4985 the fact that you think the schools NEED that level of security says it all
@@chrisbuttonshaw2088 they do though it's sad but they do even if guns were banned which I personally am completely against someone could always come with a knife I went to North canyon high-school in Phoenix Arizona a girl came in pulled a fire alarm and attempted to start stabbing people as they went outside in droves she was tazed by our school resource officer who was also a army veteran
@Dario, it's gaslighting and lying. The Texas police who let a convicted murderer "escape" two weeks ago did the same thing. Gonzalo Lopez, a violent offender, was being transported to a medical appointment with about fifteen other prisoners on a prison bus. He somehow got out of his handcuffs and leg irons, cut a hole under the metal door separating him from the bus driver, and then shanked the driver with a metal object and stole the bus. The public info officer from that town told the press that police handled the situation well and called them "heroes" because they shot out the tires of the bus before he could get very far. That was two weeks ago, and that dangerous felon is still at large. No new updates from the police either. As long as police face no consequences, they will keep lying and covering things up!
These people are doing everything that they possibly can to avoid accepting responsibility for their failure. The bottom line is this, the cops failed to stop the gunman, failed to do their job, failed at every step of this incident. Nobody stopped the gunman from going in and when he was in nobody went in to stop him from committing his heinous act. They just don't want to accept the truth. This is cya at its best!
Bingo!
They succeeded at getting their own kids out alive though. SMDH.
In other words, standard police work in the US...
The mayor the chief of police the so-called Texas Rangers and all law enforcement who were involved need to be fired immediately!
By the way we need more Mall Cops.
I really hope the department just gets disbanded at this point. Rip it out by the roots and start over with people who aren’t cowards acting tough.
Sounds like a corrupt city. I feel sorry for the "normal" people in that town. Prayers for the survivers. RIP for the kids and teachers. My heart goes out to everyone in this "corrupt" town.
Unbelievable. That man should resign from literally everything he’s doing. 19 children died under his watch and his misguided decision. Obviously he deserves no confidence from the public.
What about all the children that were killed during the Iraq war nobody was held accountable for that
So you would have made the correct decision? And you know an event you’ve never partaken in where you’ve had to make decisions like this?
someone is murdering kids, you have 2 options: do something, or do nothing. its not a hard decision
@@fishydubs7964 tell me about it bush deserves to be held accountable
Buckle up, gonna be a wild summer of TRUTH. If we had legitimate investigative journalist they'd tell this was a permanently closed school.
Governor Abbott and everyone under him should resign in disgrace. And The teacher pulling the door closed on the phone with 911 did 100 more than any of the police did to try to keep all the children and other teacher safe.
Everyone of them should be literally THROWN OUT!!!
@@brendamotley466 They should be arrested and tried.
Indeed, the governor and "everyone under him" should resign............and all be replaced with Liberal Socialist candidates............right... maybe AOC as Governor !!!!
HA, ty[ical Rethug crap Divert ,avoid and blame victims. TX is F'd up.
Astonishing with such gross incompetence and negligence, nobody stepped down, nobody got fired, nobody is being held accountable. This is just sickening
The arrogance is off the charts.
Welcome to America.
Local people, the relatives and friend of the murdered need to extract revenge by firing the mayor and the police chief and making sure that all of the police are retrained properly. This time its a school they fail to protect, next time it will be someone's home or office. It took the border police to save the rest of the children. The State Governor et al needs to be also taken out at the next election. People are dying on their watch.
Seriously, as a NON American looking in from the outside it is pretty clear. EVERY American is to blame and your LOVE of giving firearms to anyone who wants one.
This will only get worse until you disarm your population. Arming teachers and fortifying schools is absurd, surly you see this? But i guess you will defend the "right to bear arms"
right down to the last American child. Sickening...
Spot on. 👍
If that had been rich privileged kids, there would be some arrests. Only people that got handcuffed was the parents who tried to go save their kids.
This is only going to get worse because the official/s responsible are not held accountable for crimes committed and cover-ups.
Yeah, the longer that they wait to hold people accountable, the worse and worse it will be for those officials responsible. And I can imagine this all ending in gunfire and explosions
If people voted correctly, this would be taken care of!
@@rrickarr haha
If Merrick Garland doesn't clean out the rot, within the Texas Police, it will only prove that the DOJ too is corrupt.
This shooting was stopped by an off duty boarder guard who ran in unauthorized with a gun
This is a disgrace to this country as a whole. We need answers. Forget about democrat or republican, this country needs to stop being lied to and things need to change. Its getting worse and worse, year after year, yet nobody is doing a thing.
😠😬😢😩
Thats not true. They are sending lots of thoughts and prayers.
Antidepressant drugs are known to cause:
- Aggression, violence or hostility
- Impulsiveness
- Agitation or restlessness
Instead of attacking the U.S. Constitution, how about if we just stop feeding children crazy pills?
@@paulgallagher2937 tots and pears
Because they've divided everyone severely...
as somebody posted to twitter, "imagine all the things cops lie about when it's NOT such a high profile case"
I was saying this too. If they lie about something this big when they know they’re under massive scrutiny just think of what they do in regards to the “little things” in their daily job duties.
Yes!! Just been thinking of previous cases where police have lied and it only proven through camera phones at the time filming. Otherwise the lies would have been believed and the poor person convicted for no crime committed.
all the time!
It's no secret that cops lie as easily as they breathe. There's no reason to believe anything any cop says.
It's being exposed enough that juries are starting to not see a cops testimony as more reliable, in some cases they might see it as less reliable
Disgusting ! Could you imagine being one of these parents, knowing there will be zero accountability for the gross negligence, that cost their baby's lives !
The fact that this police chief still went through with getting sworn into a city council role and will be collecting additional tax dollars from the community he failed and is currently hiding from to avoid accountability...is unconscionable. I expect him to be recalled by the citizens as soon as the city's process allows them to do so.
Sorry but he won’t😢. All of City Council should be ashamed. AND fired. Corrupt cowards.
I read in the Guardian that he got 126 votes --- 70% of total. That says a lot too.
Screw that. Send the mob of angry parents to get him. Mob justice.
@Eric Anderson Now that was Original and funny... But sadly, probably true.
A corrupt council, who swore in a corrupt pig, will help the citizens hold him accountable? I just want to make sure I understand your statement correctly. Are you crazy?
Why do some Republican politicians think public accountability doesn't apply to them?
Why do some democrats think what we have in our office and playing on tv has something to actually do with democrat values?
To the OP: Because they never get held responsible.
They're ALL WHITE with badges guns ,have power with guns do or don't!!! VOTE TRUMPCANT PARTY
They watched Donald Trump for the last 6-7 years.
They have gotten away with it for far too long
Your passion for doing the right thing, calling out the liars in politics, and the way you show you care about the truth is inspiring. Thank you Lawrence! 🤍
God bless Laurence O'Donnell and his platform of truth. Abbot is an evil liar.. so disgusting 🤮👺🤑
He is one of few humbled men in media.
BLESS THE FREE PRESS 🙏
These honest men like Lawrence are not allowed in to the politics circle
LOL.
Woe unto Greg Abbot and the mayor for just statement, saying “it could have been worse” was absolutely disgusting and inhuman. If any of the dead was related to him, he will not let this garbage spill out of his pie hole.
Gross misconduct in any other profession would result in them being fired, why hasn’t it happened in this instance, absolutely shocking.
Umm there cops
This 100%, people in any other profession can be fired for minor mistakes let alone gross misconduct. Its so upsetting that these folks are not facing any consequences. (At least at the moment.)
In the military, who are also responsible for safeguarding this country, this type of gross negligence would result in a court martial and dishonorably removed from the service. Our law enforcement leaders should be held to the same standard.
It's because Texas and other southern states like it are corrupt at the local government level. They look out for their own
@@larrymcgill5508 not gross negligence but rather dereliction of duty and pure cowardice. They are only brave when a person is totally unarmed and cooperating then they will open fire.
There is an interview with the mother that was handcuffed, then when released, she jumped the fence, went into the school and rescued both her children. She could still hear gun fire when she was in there. It is an amazing interview!! She said there were no police in the school when she was in there!! Omg!
@@PhantomRavn The police were the only ones on lock down & trying to stop parents!!!
So the school wasn't on lock down? Wow this whole situation was poorly executed. As soon as shots were heard staff should have immediately locked down the school and prevented no one including parents from entering the school or classrooms
I Saw That interview.. And Also You Hear The Lady Dispatcher Telling By Radio To The Police Outside The School, That a Chilld Was Calling Her From The inside ,Of ONE Of The Classroom And The Shooter Still Active Shooting in Other Classroomm......i Don't Know, But
This Police Work Need To Be investigated .... From Top To Buttom
Who's in Charge, Who Give The Order
To Stay Put...Out Of The School...When Clearly A Group Of Childrens Were Calling 911 After 25
Or 30 Minutes The Gunman Came
Inside The School....And Nothing. And To Making All Worse a Group Of Parents Were At The Scene in Front Of The School... Begging,and Screaming To The Police To Go inside Or Do Something, Cause
They HEAR The Shots Were Active And They in ANY Moments Came inside The School.... Inmidiacly i Call
For a Big Time Investigación....They
Felt The Childrens, Their Parents, The All Uvalde Community, The Texas State and The All Country
All The Peoples That Takes All Those Wrong Desicións Need To PAID THE Consecuense.
And They Need To Understand That Their Right Desicións, Could Have Been Save SOME OF Those 19 Kids
But They Take The Wrong One.
Don't Go inside The School Where a
Non-Training Delusional, Angry With The World, And Probably Suicidal 18 Years Old, That at That Moment Was Waiting For The Police That Already Were Looking For Him For Shooting
His Grandmother LIKE a An Hour Early....I ASK THE BIG QUESTIÓN..✍🏽
AND #1 GUILTY WHO GIVE THE lNEXCUSABLE, ORDER OF DON'T GO INSIDE THE SCHOOL.. AGAINST ALL THE PRINCIPLES OF SAVES LIVES. AND MORE WHEN THOSE LIVES WERE CHILDRENS....HIM is #1
For The investigators.....Who Gave
That Order...Then After Him The Rest
Of THE GUILTY Ones.
In the future, this young, athletic, and hugely determined mom would make a great police officer, I think...
I read about the mother who rescued her two children while the police did nothing.
Keep reporting. Don't let the story die, don't let people quietly forget. Keep on hammering until change happens.
The citizens should can for a recall of that election, he can't handle his job as the chief of police how can he be a city council member
I bet that if this happened in a state with democratic government, I bet that all the Republicans in both houses, the Senate and the house of representatives would be harrowing for an investigation on the shooting and demanding the DOJ investigate for criminal charges.
Well said 👏🏿 🙌🏾👏🏿🙌🏾
Change will not happen. If it didn’t after Sandy Hook, nothing will change now.
There wont be change until it affects them personally...
I saw a reporter who caught up to the police chief , unaware , asked him why did he wait etc & the chiefs only comment was : when the parents stop grieving I'll talk. Stop grieving ?!?!
every single part of this story gets worse and worse. this is absolutely disgusting, every person involved in this needs to be investigated
No different than Jan 6, not to take away from those babies, but to highlight the Republican corruption that has permeated this country. I’m so sad!
@@eboyd2478 ty for saying what I'm thinking....NONE of the PIGTARDS will b held for anything... just TRY and convince me they r NOT in this TOGETHER 🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮🤮😠😠😠😠😠😠🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫
I'm guessing the police chief is a Republican. Behind back deals come naturally.
@@theblade9024 yes they all r...so NOTHING will be done...just like Jan 6...he was sworn in in secret...not responding... typical PIGTARD 🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮👺👺👺👺👺👺
Investigated by who? Themselves?
Beto was right to confront these repugnant individuals the way he did. Their egregious dereliction of duty demands they be forcibly removed from their offices and roughly thrown to the sidewalk outside.
to the sidewalk? they should be thrown UNDER the jail!!!
The side effects of antidepressant drugs are:
- Aggression, violence or hostility
- Impulsiveness
- Agitation or restlessness
Why doesn't the media investigate these mind altering drugs! These massacres have skyrocket in the last 25 years! Just about the time we started pumping school children full of prescription drugs!
Thrown into the street and run over by a bus 🚌
We ALL need to confront them. Wherever they go. Called out for the corrupt scum they are. This is an OPEN TELEVISED COVER UP.
They will find responsible parties liable Im sure.. but this beto guy Im sure he is using that moment as a political move 🤦🏻♂️🤔
There is no way that Pedro Arrendondo did not show his true colors before this. There is no way he could be this trifling without anyone realizing it. He's AWOL, but his house is being guarded. This is party loyalty run amok.
But with those guys guarding him, he’ll be dead soon.
Beautifully said
Sickening as sickening can
@L Moroz yeah they just protect themselves its a cult. we need police reform it shouldnt be political
Absolutely
This massacre of all these little school kids is so very sad on so many levels! It's downright shameful! To hear a little girl & her classmates calling & begging for police to come & then to realize that they weren't coming is heartbreaking! For lawmen to stand outside as these helpless little kids were being picked off by a maniac who took his rage out on these Innocents makes me sick. To the families of these precious little ones taken away from them, I pray for each of you & send you all my love.
God Bless You! Donna
Paraphrasing one of the mourners in Uvalde, in a PBS interview:
“Those guys on 9/11, those first responders, they went up those buildings to save people - even when they knew they wouldn’t be able to get back down. That’s what the police should have done here. Why didn’t they do that? Why didn’t they try to save the children?”
Why indeed???
Everything's big in Texas, especially the cowardice of their police. They should feel ashamed of how they look compared to NY's first responders...
@@desdenova1 The first responders in NY have a backbone. The Uvalde police? You can't find a single spinal piece among any of them.
Looks like New York Godless Lib city folk have far more balls than Texass Conservative "Christians".
👋🏾
Police and fire departments are typically not built the same. Having several friends in the Houston Fire Department here, I know they face their worst fears almost daily. How often did this small town police department face dangerous crime? Rarely. The most action they had was probably the occasional drunk and traffic tickets. Not making excuses for them, but this department was sheltered af and when finally confronting real crime - they were too scared to rise to the occasion.
African Americans have been saying this for decades, that something is wrong with law enforcement in America, but no one wanted to listen. It's unfortunate that it had to take an incident of this magnitude, to awaken America to the truth! 😵💫
I am 47 years old and I have been seeing there's something wrong with the police department pretty much my whole life
Still nothing is going to be done because they would make African Americans right
I'm 61 and I've know there was something wrong with the police all my life.
I couldn't agree with you more.
Yes!!! This is so so tragic and it makes me mad that people generally have not listened until something like this comes close to their door. Endemic racism and corruption - please please people take notice now 💔
No one is fired, no one has resigned??
How are these people immune to legal scrutiny or justice that says their negligence of duty should be treated as homicide ?
Qualified Immunity. Protects police from any and all consequences. Until that is removed from law nothing will ever change except with violence
your statement is enough for the cowards to huddle together in solidarity
@@treeaddict Educate Yourself
A belief in the almighty police...that how
city Councillors and politicians in general have always been been immune to legal scrutiny...as the cops protect them and they in turn protect the cops,
So white people are finally waking up and realizing that the cops they worshiped all their lives are actually cowards?
And people in general finally wake up and realize that its the Politicians and city Councillor supported by cops that keep the Staus Quo, its the cops who protect them and they have always worked hand in hand in all sorts of unsavoury behavior behavior committed by both groups.
where is the city Councillors and city government in all this.?
Are cops still under their control or are they really independent but just pretending that they are governed by the town or city.
The police chief got promoted, position on the city board.
Lawrence O'Donnell, you are the closest person I've seen to a real news man since I was a child. When the news was not all saying the exact same script. Thank you! I will never stop watching you.
Appears the so-called 'good ole boys' are circling the wagons for protection.
that exactly what happened. law enforcement from across the state descended onto uvalde as soon as the residents protested
This shooting was stopped by an off duty boarder guard who ran in unauthorized with a gun
They're literally victim-blaming the teachers now...
"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to opress, rob, and degrade then, neither persons nor property will be safe."
~ Frederick Douglas (1818-1895) -- American orator, writer, editor, and abolitionist leader
Thank you for pointing quoting this. We need to get together and fight now. I think that a general strike until something is done about our gun policies. Same as the Supreme Court and Row vs Wade.
@@Sarah-said I'm right there with you. Enough is enough!
This! And the Republicans are working hard to ensure that people will be ignorant, poor and feel oppressed
A Great Man.. why aren't we listening?🥺
Equality and justice . Until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes. Robert Nesta Marley. War .
This is the best O'Donnell segment I've seen in a long time. More of this, please! I only wish Lawrence would go after the DINO's with the same intensity, but I know that's asking for too much.
“We will investigate ourselves and find no wrong doing as always, and you will do nothing about it as always”
-the police
And we will collect our pensions for the rest of our lives....
Yup that pretty much sums it up. And once again, they pull the wool over everyone's eyes.
Yessir. Am I free to leave?
It doesn't have to be like this. In other countries police would immediately fall under independent scrutiny and would comply. In England (e.g.) the Inspectorate of Constabulary would step in and would appoint an unrelated police force to conduct an investigation (police services have learned to _refer themselves_ to the Inspectorate nowadays!) and if the service in question did not fully comply with the unrelated police the Inspectorate would report and the senior staff would lose their jobs and possibly be charged. Whichever police service is appointed it does not protect the service under investigation: a matter of professional pride and public face. No system is perfect, but solutions do exist and the US *chooses* to have the *worst* solution every time; none of the rest of us know why!
@@SpeckleKen :: We could request a Congressional Delegation go to England to learn how the Englishj "Inspectorate of Constabulary" handles police Dishonorable Performance and Non Compliance with Training.
Arrest him. Obstruction of justice.
Yea seems like a really simple solution. Obstructing the investigation of the murder of 21 people, seems like it really should be worthy of his arrest, like asap
J Ross, should be what may happen in a well run State, but who's going to arrest the top cop there? Especially after he's been sworn in as a councillor for the city (while he was hiding from the media and public)❗
You only obstruct if you lie. I think.
People of Uvalde..please..please don't allow these crooked incompetent authorities continue in your city. The 21 innocent lives demand it! The entire police force of Uvalde, of the ISD, the mayor, the governor, and the chairman of the DPS..they all must resign!...Don't allow these lying deceitful and incompetent authorities continue! Please!
They need to be replaced by the first truly modern police department, a humane one with real long-lasting oversight that will be a template, a model for the future.
repugnicons only want power, they don't want to govern....
Now the system doesn’t work when it fails your community
The system hasn’t ever worked!
lock them up lock them up lock them up
This is not "stunning" but merely "disgusting" behavior and there needs to be investigated due to complete negligence!!!! SHAME on the people that are dodging this horrific situation!!!
It seems that there is a lot of corruption in Uvalde, the mayor, cops, chief of PD, etc. Corruption led to the death of these beautiful children. 🙏
bingo
EXACTLY I would move out of that corruption if I were the families!
Lol all of Texas politicians and police are corrupt 🤣
All the way to the governor of Texas
Why do I get the stinking feeling that this is indicative of practically the entire state of Texas. 🤔
“Everything is bigger in Texas,” even cowards!
They are the biggest cowards for sure
Time for a new mayor and police force
And Governor and Senators
Yes. Maybe somebody who doesn’t call a truth teller “a sick sonofabitch”
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS . Get it through your heads Americans. They are not life savers. They are not firemen and they are not EMTs. Hero is not a job requirement.
Since when has ANY law enforcement agency EVER needed a fricking key to breach the door of an active shooter OR raid?? NEVER!!
Or a no-knock warrant
💯🤦♀️💔
You re right. A totally ridiculous excuse
Very, very suspicious. Just like this whole story ...
A total farce on the part of l.e. The shooter deserves the death penalty, the uniformed bystanders, life in prison, no parole.
These cops should get in trouble for letting the kids be slowly slaughtered but let’s not forget that this 18 year old was able to buy a high assault rifle like it was a new TV and none of these politicians want to do anything about it .
@@dave23024 What? Another dude here that doesn't need access to guns America
There you go, the 2A crazies are going to do anything to deflect from the facts you point out.
@@rhettlover1 You can't blame all good gun owners for a small percentage of bad gun owners.
And where did you read they were slowly slaughtered? Most of them were shot rather quickly.
And no the politicians are not just going to do nothing. They are going to actively stop anybody from doing anything that will stop someone from buying a weapon.
18 year olds to buy guns thst pump over a hundred bullets in a few minutes, near decapitating victims and leaving cavity wounds the size of an orange. To maximise effectiveness, ammunition can be bought in high capacity magazines, limitless bullets and AR grade body armor is available to these civilians to make it harder for them to be neutralised.
Seems like the officers get their lack of courage from the leadership
Mikey. Doubtful. The "officers" are dedicated to Trump and Fox News(?). The "leadership" you mention
as well. Resulting in failure. Which is an absolutely dismal thought.
They acted like Republicans. Think about it. The cops went in and got their own children out of the school, then stood around stopping anyone else from saving theirs.
A typical coward Corrupt Hispanic or Latino cop… disgraceful! Don’t say that he is one of brave American police officers. He is a cop coming from the southern Mexico border.-:)
like cowardice? is that Abott or Trump or both?
@@sim.k.2243 Yes.
Every state official must resign including the police 👮♀️ chief without any attempt to even save one ☝️ or two students by storming this school including 👩🏫 teachers.There is no reason from the governor and all high commissioners must resign in disgrace.???
Abbot makes me sick, he is just taking promo pictures at the school , at memorials and I’m pretty sure he will be at the funerals taking pictures next to the caskets like he cared about any of those kids . Even the cops were scared of the assault rifle so why just let anyone have one like it’s a toy ? Abbot knew what they did that’s why he won’t fire anyone .
He’s at the memorials selling guns to the parents like the NRA tells him to do.
Abbott is a LIAR. EVERY 1 on that stage last Wed KNEW they had screwed up at every level. That's why they were so defensive & angry at Beto for confronting them. Please ALL, call Your electeds, ESPECIALLY gop, INSIST on gun Reform. Texans, please call Abbott, insist on an emergency Special Session ASAP.
& Uvalde's Sheriff won his election by only 60 votes. VOTE!👊🏼
The families should escort Abbott and the Mayor from any memorial services. I'm reasonably certain somebody owns some AR-15s to enforce the privacy of these families.
@@rhondaharris6407 The families have already refused to meet with Abbott, and rightly so. He's spent the last 4 years doing everything he can to help loosen the gun laws in Texas. Thanks to Abbott, a permit is no longer needed for concealed carry in Texas. People who couldn't get permits because law enforcement had deemed them to be too dangerous to carry weapons - tens of thousands of people in Texas - can now carry weapons. Abbott has done everything the gun lobby has ever dreamed of.
And our president wasn’t there to take ‘promo’ pictures? Please. Confirmation bias right here. Cmon people. You’re smarter than this.
Imagine being so morally bankrupt you throw a teacher under a bus or secretly swear in a dirty cop. Every time I think I can't be more disgusted with texas.
They were going to "scapegoat" that teacher- They are shameful!!!
@@deborahb6294 well she did make a huge mistake though
@@ctrain9257 dude go play pogo stick in a minefield
Heh can you tell the difference between pre work sober about to go machine stuff josh and post work stoned josh hahahahahahahahahahahhahaha
It's about time somebody told it like it actually is. Lawrence i have the utmost respect for you, well done
He sounds like most people that have sense!
even as a conservative ACCOUNTABILITY should be demanded by everyone in this case
He's on Point Period 👉👈
He didn't lie..he said they did what they do....witch was NOTHING..🤦♂️
Everything we were initially told is a lie. This was the worse cover up ever.
We were watching from Australia and couldn't believe the lies that were being told that were exposed within 36hours.
How could they stand there and totally lie to the public.
Utterly disgusting.
Is...present tense...this is still evolving...I'm sure there's more
Yes, not even good at cover up are they!
ti was a blatant total case of CYA
I personally think it would STILL have been swept up under the rug if the parents didn't have video of them trying desperately to get into that school. Horrible!
You're almost hitting the nail on the head. There is NO accountability. The behaviour of politicians and police involved is quite simply criminal.
No, it is _monarchial._
The law cannot be criminal. The law can only be _tyrannical._
@@JoshSweetvale I think you are responding to someone elses post. The behaviour of Politicians and Police involved is criminal. They are people not laws.
Government protecting government.
Disgusting that they tried to blame a teacher and then had to retract and then the police chief hides.
Police training works if they are given the correct direction from the ones at the top. Lying to cover up is revolting
If the individual has no HEART for the job, the training will never KICK IN, no?!
Finally, some honesty about the state of American policing. The Black community has been complaining about this for decades. America is now suffering because we did not heed cries of our Black neighbors and countrymen. We are all accountable. The signs were all present. The warnings and pleas were all made.
They'll care when it starts happening to them
You are totally right, but according to tucker carlson, putting focus on lying and corrupt policer officers while you are a black citizen mean you are enabling «critical race theory» and we can’t have that. Its better to cover up the ocean of rotten apples in the police force. Some people are still questioning why we need police reforms. I say, are there anything that indicates we do not??
we are NOT ALL in that Basket.. some of us HAVE been STANDING UP.. doing what we can.. we need More Allies..less Prejudice.. Speak Up when it is Safe to do so.. otherwise take another route .. just get to were we ALL Need to be.. STANDING TOGETHER ..Remember we are more the same than different.. We all want to be Loved and Live in Peace.. not fear and oppression..
The small town cops are the worse. They all cover for each other. I wanted how many people have been beaten by them and it covered up.
About American policing: It is immensely and by a great margin that these school shootings only take place in The United States. Other countries in America don't have school shootings as we do around here.
Yes. He just looks super guilty in refusing to answer questions.
Totally.
@Kate Uhler
16, and he knows it!
He obviously wanted to the "Hero Of The Day" but couldn't step up when needed.
He was the Chief of a 5 Officer Department.
No way would he be skilled enough for such an incident.
How could he accept an appointment to Council at a time like this.
@@fireskycam9889 That hero of the day should be compelled to attend every funeral for each of the victims. The governor, too. They did not recognize a single one of these kids and teachers for what the really are: victims of their own ineptitude and egos. GO! Meet every family. Then come back and write a report about each victim and have it on my desk on Monday morning. Spelling and grammer will be graded along with content. Then resign.
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I'm originally from California currently living in San Francisco and you where are you from if i may ask?.
They didn’t lie to Abbot he knew and chose to speak in such a manner to deflect blame. He’s just as guilty if not more guilty for letting this happen.
Totally agree.
I don't see how Abbott could get up there and repeat what he did. It was too early to have such specific information when he gave his speech. It had to have been made up. It's Abbot's fault that he didn't question anything.
Of course he did.
Press conference advocacy of death by murder does make it worse
Unbelievable. He is a incompetent coward. Are people going to allow a man like that be their city council member and Chief of police? Stand up and STOP that man.
yes they will
It's typical of most right wing gun nuts;' they're all gung ho until the opposition also has a gun. Cowards, all.
The armed police [cowards] were actually physically stopping parents from going in and rescuing their own children.
You're Spot-on! This is incompetence at the highest level possible. No accountability for failing protection of 19 children and two teachers. How much lower can we go!
Sounds like it’s time for the FEDS to take over this investigation. Only way those kids & families will get some justice
There must be a third party investigation! Something very dirty is going on there.
Bet you they set that whole thing up. Who knows even if they actually killed the shooter.
If I was that police chief, I wouldn't be able to live with myself after that! I'd be an emotional wreck but I saw a video of this guy and looked completely fine by it all.
*Don’t forget that same Mayor yelled at Beto O’Rourke, “No this is your fault.”*
Clear projection and avoidance of taking responsibility
@@optimusprime320-h9c That's the Republican way.
Jon Stark
then let Beto run for Mayor instead of Governor. Then he might have a chance to win. Then Beto can scream at the Mayor :D
This is how Texas will turn blue.
“I know you are, but what am I?” - Carefully crafted response from ‘Community Leaders’.
"Negligent homicide." All cops involved are guilty of this.
Police have no duty to protect.
@@Blgtn43 "protect and serve" written on the side of cruisers
@@FeloniousChihuahua
USD money says In God We Trust... it is a catch phrase just like protect and serve
@@FeloniousChihuahua Following last February's shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, some students claimed local government officials were at fault for failing to provide protection to students. The students filed suit, naming six defendants, including the Broward school district and the Broward Sheriff’s Office , as well as school deputy Scot Peterson and campus monitor Andrew Medina.
On Monday, though, a federal judge ruled that the government agencies " had no constitutional duty to protect students who were not in custody."
This latest decision adds to a growing body of case law establishing that government agencies - including police agencies - have no duty to provide protection to citizens in general:
@@Blgtn43 then we're going to have to find a way to overturn that ruling huh?
Or make it accurate. I don't think we should expect cops to go on suicide missions.
But risking your life to save school children should be part of the job.
Adherence to black and white interpretation of the law, also, doesn't hold up well in court.
There are many nuances and technicalities that can go against you, and splitting hairs in moments like these, are what help define the law, and set peramiters.
It will be interesting how this gets ruled.
Putting aside the recent gross failures of the Uvalde police department for a moment, I would think that allowing ANY police chief to also be on the city council is just a really bad idea, as it gives one person WAY too much power and screams "conflict of interest" -- especially in a small town. These bodies are supposed to serve as a means of checks and balances of each other. How can any matter involving the police department be brought in front of the city council and expect to receive a fair and impartial assessment? Now add the recent poor showing of the Uvalde police - which we know will be staunchly defended by at least one member of the city council - and we have the beginnings of a recipe for classic Small Town Graft and Corruption.
thank you; I live in a different country but my very first thought was, "conflict of interest" ... at the very least, the correct procedure would have been for him to have resigned as Chief of Police once he was elected to the Council!
The system there is very dirty & it seems they won't even endanger the cops to save kids lives. How can this evil clown still be allowed to run anything & not be fired & prosecuted for this also ????? So much wrong, self empowered, self entitled dogs, greedy cowards who are, power hungry officials and liars who should never have been put in office!!!
The CIA & our President must use all needed to expose & bring this kind of evil set up down 👇 for the justice ♎ of the people now !!!! 🙏 😭 🙏!!!!!!!
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾continuing to pray for these families.
Teachers and parents are more brave than cops.
Logging workers are braver than the cops.
Fishermen are braver than the cops.
Aircraft pilots are braver than the cops.
Roofers are braver than the cops.
Garbage collectors are braver than the cops.
Electrical power line workers are braver than the cops.
Truck drivers are braver than the cops.
Oil and gas extractors are braver than the cops.
Farmers and ranchers are braver than the cops.
Construction workers are braver than the cops.
How can I be so sure about these statements?
All the above jobs are statistically more dangerous than being a cop.
a VERY good point that seems to be lost in all this swamp fever of a shitshow. why, HOW, has amerika become THIS irrational & SO rife with such naked hypocrisy? why have the last 10 yrs been so uniquely STUPID?
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I'm originally from California currently living in San Francisco and you where are you from if i may ask?.
@@logoninternet We all accept our chances when we pick a job or career.. so.. yeah.. Great point.
All governing entities need to be sued, including the state. And let it be well known that the taxpayers are footing the bill. If people don’t like paying for their leaders” mistakes then they should replace their leaders.
It’s going to be one massive lawsuit.
Let the people responsible foot the bill....if they cant afford it they can sell a kidney or something, donate blood everyday of their lives, reason they have no responsibility is the tax payers are always taking hit for their screw ups
Trust me...they will be
How wonderful his house is being guarded by cops vehicles...wow.grown man needing all that protection? So did those kids.
And why does he need protection, it’s not like assault guns are dangerous or anything. He has guns. He should feel so safe.
I hope the same guards who were watching Epstein...
@@trishayamada807 plus he's a "good guy with a gun" and Republicans keep saying that's all you need to stop an army of bad guys with guns is just a single good guy with a gun so the other officers can all go hide in their homes too instead
Seems a little pointless to me. These cops have shown they're unwilling or unable to protect little kids from one lone teenage gunman, if any of those parents showed up with similar means those cops would probably sht themselves and run again.
JUSTICE ! ! ! JUSTICE ! ! ! JUSTICE ! ! !
Police training only works when they’re willing to actually do their jobs. Nearly 20 young people are gone because of cowards that hide in a hallway. Complacency kills. Cowardice kills.
So does overconfidence, when you think that lots of guns and gear on the cops will protect you in a crisis.
@@serendipityshopnyc the cops’ safety is not important. The kid’s safety was. The gall to make excuses for the criminal, callous behavior of these cops is sick.
@@strafer8764 Agree wholeheartedly. My point was that the overconfidence can be on the part of both civilians and the cops, if they think lots of guns & gear will make them safe. Doesn't work without the cops or guards having balls to do the right thing at the right time.
There was a Robert Heinlein book, "Tunnel in the Sky", in which some teenagers who took a survival course are dropped on an alien planet for their two-week final test. They're allowed to bring just a few belongings and supplies, whatever they can carry. The main character brings a hunting knife but no gun, at his sister's suggestion, and the instructor quizzes him a little and then praises him for that choice, because he says guns make people overconfident in unfamiliar environments when they should be quiet and alert and sussing out their surroundings. (As it turns out, one of the other students who does bring a big assault weapon gets himself killed on the first day.)
19 + 2 = 21
So police training works, tell you are not of a darker skin color. Before , you go on, tell all the innocent people of color police training works.
All he has to do is say: "I don't recall." every time he's asked a question. It's how all people in positions of power or authority wiggle out of legal accountability. "I don't recall" "I don't remember" "I have no recollection" over and over and over. Apparently it's a legal loophole that gets you out of any hotspot
Yes yes indeed they all develop AMNESIA " don't recall
Had get his keep up lie in line with Abbott!! he's not going to fire that man !!!! I'll believe it when I hear about it
Like Republicans traitors to the country
@Frfggg Ffgcdkkd No be like Biden and his son. You know 10% to pops. Selling us to China
Because its probably corrupt texas officials using him as a scapegoat. A lot of the story doesn't add up
Ayyyy you good! I want you as my lawyer
I mean its clear that this is a case of cowardice. He doesn't want to show his face and answer for this. Yes it is humiliating to be exposed like this on a national stage. But worse is being a coward. Worse is not facing the parents of the kids who died, and their classmates, and their families. You just have to stand up and take the humbling. Even if it means disgrace, being fired or even going to trial. You have to stand up because its right. Thats the way to be saved. "Those who humble themselves will be exalted."
all you say is true. and they will continue to do what they see as expedient, because that is what they have always done.
He will have to face the music sooner or later. He can run, but he can't hide.
Not just on a National stage... I'm an English guy living on a small tropical island in the Gulf of Thailand... this disgrace is being watched world-wide. It is sickening to see/hear... disgusting! 🤬😡 My heart bleeds for those teachers, kids, and their families. ❤
Cowards
Hope so. To much is going wrong lately it is mentally insane out there
- - Thank you Mr. Lawrence ! - - You always give great information and such a terrific speaker you are ! -- -- THANK YOU ! - For all of your hard work and keen Intelligence to do your job so VERY well ! - - Your one of the best ! - -.......- no....correction .......- You ARE the best ! ---- -
Imagine to have the ruthless gall to say something like “It could’ve been worse … “ to a parent who just lost their child to murder.
GOV ABBOTT IS A DISGRACE and all who support his senseless rhetoric on reasons to not pass gun laws for tight control.
How many more murders does it take for a sensible thing to happen?
I’m afraid to find out.
If it does not involve their loved ones ,if they love anyone but themselves, they will continue to do nothing .
Have Americans gone nuts? Those poor kids begging for help and those big, strong, stupid,, cowards all outside cowering and cringing carrying their big, dangerous guns. Those men should be tarred and feathered. That press conference was a disgrace. But Americans are getting used to a diet of lies from those in power, They hope the ordinary person will just shut the f… up!
It is 100% stupidity to say such a thing
If they keep voting for it, what can we do
💯 truth 😢
I am appalled by the way the Texas Governor conducts himself and the manner in which he speaks. "It could have been worse...". NO SIR! These mass shootings at schools should NEVER HAPPEN. NEVER! Could have been worse? Can you imagine how that makes the surviving family members feel as they bury their children. Go ahead Governor, show up at a memorial service and tell all there that, "it could have been worse". You are a despicable excuse for a human being.
It's hard to think of a more disgusting thing he could have said. To a parent who has lost their child, there IS nothing worse!
@@thatswhatisaid8908 I agree.
Greg Abbott has done worse I'm not supprised. He even removed LGBT services from the Texas suicide hofline
EXACTLY 💯 % TRUE CORRECT UNBELIEVABLE DESPICABLE 🗽🇺🇲⚖🙏😭😱
@@lyndaweister9984 death to America
"It could had been worse" Really????!! Tell that to those 21 families to their actual faces. Unbeliable.
If the Police had complied with Training and SOP's, a lot less Lives would be lost, as the shooter was stopped in the First Minute of Police Confrontation. Police Non-Compliance Costs Lives. - Police Non-Compliance Costs Lives. - "Police Non-Compliance Costs Lives...
It's bad cuz some of the family were actually there
Here we go again, the cops spent time looking for a key to the room, but NOBODY had the common sense to see if the door was indeed unlocked. And the door was UNLOCKED FROM THE GET GO !!!!!!!!
I wish a body language analyst would take a look at the Police Chief's statement, and the press conference.
“Don’t mess with Texas”
“IT’S A MESS DOWN IN TEXAS”
"Dont mess with Texass"
"We already messed it up ourselves."
Absolute
Facts
Nauseating.
Heart wrenching.
I just don’t have words.
Arrest these cops
The governor NEEDS TO BE FIRED along with the Lt Governor ...
They can't be fired. It's called impeachment. Or just not reflecting them
The only way we'll get rid of them is to vote against them, and even then we may not because of the gerrymandering they've done to our map to keep Democrats out at all cost.!
@@nenagonzo355 do you have any comprehension of what the voting demographics in this country are? Democrats and Republicans cancel each other out. Independents decide elections. And you're right. Republicans do gerrymander. So do democrats. You people are all diseased.
Tired of it, IT WAS WORST. JUST APPALLING BEHAVIOR.
I just love how people who preach "Personal Responsibility (tm)" can never take it upon themselves.
bravo!
Bravo!, Best Comment by far!!!!!!!
How do those same officers even have the gall to go back to work after failing to rescue those children? They're credibility is shot. How can anyone ever trust them to do their job after such a monumental breach of the public trust?
The Supreme Court has already ruled the police have no responsibility to protect you.
They had no shame to begin with.
see the web of lies they are telling at press conferences. I can guarantee you that behind closed doors, they are finding even more justifications that they did not nothing wrong and in fact their work should be called heroic
They still get paid, what do they care?
The police aren't here to protect us peasants... they exist to protect the rich and their assets.
"If you're not with us you're against us"
Sure seems the 'someone' is Aiding and abetting criminal behavior in every conceivable way..
I was literally just thinking that....
Reality is We all know that Those in Power believe they are Above the Law
They absolutely are.
How about going after the Chief that told them to stand down. He’s also a BLM supporter
@@thefiftyyearoldfourtwentyg7377 Yes!!!
It is amazing that 20 years after Columbine this is still happening. It is so sad that children are losing their lives and adults only care about themselves & their rights.
Thank you, Lawrence, for calling out these cowards and liars.
At Columbine in 1999, teacher Dave Sanders and students died waiting for police while students begged for help via 911. Since then, police are trained to enter immediately, yet the same happened here.
The repeated lies add insult to the worst injury.
It's unbearable that innocent Americans die over and over because a pathologically selfish minority must have their "right" to assault weapons and large capacity magazines.
also the Columbine murderers where constantly bullied throughout their teenage years, teachers literally stood by and allowed it, so it isn't just the guns that are wrong with the USA! sorry about that
This is a dark moment in American history. They way the government is handling is making exceedingly worse. I am so sad for those families and children and that community 😢 just heart breaking and totally disappointing
Yeah, but replace "government" with "Republicans".
Come on... The dark moment is now longer than 20 years... That's the real tragedy.
@@batbee7427 Who funded police chief's city council run? Soros?
@@batbee7427 they are the problem
@@batbee7427 oh stfu it’s not one party, you’re very misguided or delusional if you really think that.
It’s now official: the “authorities” in charge of processing this situation are now just as if not MORE evil than that piece of crap who pulled the trigger killing those babies.
Amen! THOSE r the real SOBs
😒 it’s sad, that the bad apples always get the highest leadership positions. The rest of us live our lifes in peace, until their actions caught up to us. In conclusion, it’s our fault for not becoming law enforcement, politicians presidents of our countries. We let the bad people be in charge
John Doe
official by who?
@@alexhamilton4985 Joe Doe is referring to the DOJ. It was reported last week that the mayor of Ulvade requested the DOJ to investigate.
Well spoken Sir! Many, many people within and without the USA are asking exactly the same questions and wondering what is going on. You have articulated our concerns perfectly. I hope you get the chance to confront these people and get answers from them for all of us to share. I can only imagine the pain and suffering the poor family and friends of the victims are going through.
Of the many MANY mistakes that law enforcement made that day, one of the worst was telling the kids to say help, which got a little girl killed. It's almost like they used her as bait to figure out precisely where the gunman was. It makes me sick to my stomach.
Exactly bunch of cowards
My same sentiment! They all have blood on their hands and faces!😠
That's helping the murderer...
They always have the same response. They'll say, "The shooter was pretending to be police." That's exactly what they said on Fox News when that point was brought up. I've seen every interview and no child ever said anything like that.
Oh my God
The blame game. The police department should be hold accountable.
How about more guns? That'll fix everything, right?
Arm the kids.
John Sotelo
so you are on team "blame the police"? Got it :D
This needs to be repeated, frequently:
“Police training does not work “
unless the suspect is black/brown and unarmed.
except it does as this is what police are trained to do, they are trained to prioritize their own lives over everyone else, to act like "warriors" but not trained to actually be warriors and trained to be bullies
@@scottgreeff7043 Stop liking your own comments. 19 cowards on display here, pepper spraying and arresting parents instead.
i dont think police training include school shooting.( it should thought )
@@khanhnguyen-tt3ff They actually did, a school shooting scenario two months prior to this actually happening, It's in a news clip on yt.
What about the un-armed mom who ran in the school and rescued her children
McGraw needs to be ashamed of himself for lying on a teacher. The door probably didn't lock! Everytime we hear more facts and details, it is worse. Chief of school made the huge and deadly mistake which costed 21 people their lives. Republicans don't admit their errors but blame others.
I hear ya but we cant say his blunder and lack of human thought is responsible for all the deaths.... But most yes....we can never control what a person does but we can control our responses...
it does seem to be a trend....
A scathing assessment on police inaction and subsequent lying about what happened. Thank you Lawrence for keeping it 100 with no sugar coating.
Mr. O'Donnell -- my hat, if I were wearing one, would be off to you, sir. I cannot fathom how you can sit there and report on the demise of a world we once -- rightly or wrongly -- believed in and not freak out or break down in tears. You and ALL of MSNBC are the very definition of professionalism. Thank you.
O'Donnell's fecal matter incarnate. Evil to the core.
You just have to laugh from not crying, sickening.