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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 37 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That's a funny way to say 'cowardice.'

[–] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 17 points 10 months ago

To be honest the title should have included the complete quote ... "cascading failures of leadership".

It seems like AI is writing too many headlines these days. :/

[–] macarthur_park@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Idk, it takes some real courage to stand between a parent and their dying kid.

[–] mo_ztt@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What THE FUCK. I knew this stuff but for some reason reading it again made me all furious again.

Eva Mireles, from inside the adjoining classrooms where the shooter was, called her husband, Ruben Ruiz, a Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District officer, who was outside the school. According to DPS Director Steven McCraw, during the call Mireles told Ruiz that she had been shot and was dying; when Ruiz "tried to move forward into the hallway, he was detained [by law enforcement] and they took his gun away from him and escorted him off the scene." Mireles eventually died from her gunshot wounds.[82][83]

After the police cordoned off the outside of the school, parents pleaded with officers to enter the building. When they did not, parents offered to enter the building themselves.[84][85] Officers held back and tackled parents who tried to enter the school, further warning that they would use tasers if the parents did not comply with directions. Video clips of these interactions were uploaded to social media, including one that depicted a parent being pinned to the ground.[86] Police pepper-sprayed a parent trying to get to their child, and an officer tackled the father of another student. Police reportedly used a taser on a parent who approached a bus to get their child.[13] A mother of two students at the school was placed in handcuffs by officers for attempting to enter the school.[13][87] When released from the handcuffs, she jumped the fence and retrieved her children, exiting before police entered.[88] A video clip showed parents questioning why police were not trying to save their children, to which an officer replies: "Because I'm having to deal with you!"[89]

And, they harassed her afterwards because she was giving interviews that made them look bad.

Pedro "Pete" Arredondo, said he arrived at the school thinking he was the first law enforcement officer on the scene. He claimed he abandoned his police and campus radios because he wanted his hands free to shoot the gunman, and stated he also thought the radios would slow him down. He said one radio's antenna would hit him when he ran, while the other radio was prone to falling off his belt when he ran, and that he knew from experience that the radios did not work in some school buildings. Arredondo said he was unaware of 9-1-1 calls being made from the classrooms the gunman was in because he did not have a radio and no one told him; the other officers in the school hallway were not in radio communication either.[97]

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

If Ruiz were to go all Frank Castle on those guys, I don't think I'd blame him.

[–] mo_ztt@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

No kidding. I'm genuinely surprised that not one of the people who had family die in there has done it.

[–] Tolstoshev@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

Let’s see some cascading firings and sentencings.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Failure would imply that the cops actually tried to stop it.

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The first failure was the 2nd Amendment.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

There were multiple opportunities to take the shooter into custody and make sure he couldn't own a gun before he ever bought a gun. All it takes is one felony conviction.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robb_Elementary_School_shooting

"He had also previously posted violent threats online.[127]"

"Ramos' social media acquaintances said he openly abused and killed animals such as cats and would livestream the abuse on Yubo.[128] Other social media acquaintances said that he would also livestream himself on Yubo threatening to kidnap and rape girls who used the app, as well as threatening to commit a school shooting.[127] Ramos' account was reported to Yubo, but no action was taken.[127][129] "

"A year before the shooting, Ramos started posting pictures to his Instagram account of semi-automatic rifles that were on his wish list. According to a friend of his, he would often drive around at night with another friend, shooting at strangers with a BB gun and egging cars."

" On May 14, Ramos sent a private Instagram message reading, "10 more days". A person responded, "Are you going to shoot up a school or something?" He replied, "No, stop asking dumb questions. You'll see."[127]"

"According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, in September 2021, Ramos asked his older sister to buy him a gun, but she refused.[56]"