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I figured you had more brains than BlaKKKe but it doesn't look that way after all.
would you rather be stabbed or shot?
there are only two choices
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I figured you had more brains than BlaKKKe but it doesn't look that way after all.
not a fan?
not surprising
*yawns
info still trickling out
https://www.propublica.org/article/u...afety-concernsRecords released this week provide more details about campus safety concerns raised before the deadly 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and include some surviving teachers’ accounts that school leaders didn’t check on them after they were injured and traumatized.
The do ents from Uvalde County and the school district also indicate that the 18-year-old shooter had behavioral and attendance issues before he dropped out of high school, and that his mother had told sheriff’s deputies that she was scared of him.
The county and Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District released the materials — nearly 12 gigabytes — as part of a settlement agreement in a yearslong lawsuit that news organizations, including ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, brought against state and local governments.
The records reinforce the failure of law enforcement agencies to more quickly confront the gunman, who killed 19 students and two teachers in the deadliest school shooting in Texas history. ProPublica and the Tribune previously found that officers wrongly treated the shooter as a barricaded subject, rather than an active threat, and waited 77 minutes to confront him. No officer took control of the response, which prevented coordination and communication between agencies.
The Texas Department of Public Safety, which dispatched more than 90 officers to the school, has appealed a separate judge’s order to release hundreds of videos and investigative files to the news organizations that sued for access. The agency’s effort to slow the release of information continues to draw criticism from families of the victims, teachers and the former mayor, who is now a Republican state lawmaker.
“It’s important so that the families can begin to heal, so that the families can begin to trust, so they begin to have some sort of closure,” said Jesse Rizo, whose 9-year-old niece, Jackie Cazares, was killed during the May 24, 2022, massacre.
Rizo, now a school board member who voted to release the agency’s records, added, “It will never be complete closure, but some sort of closure, and rebuilding that trust in law enforcement.”
The news organizations will continue to fight for release of the DPS records, said Laura Prather, a media law chair for Haynes Boone who is representing the outlets.
Law enforcement experts largely regard the Uvalde shooting response as among the worst in American history. A U.S. Justice Department report in January 2024 affirmed many of the newsrooms’ initial findings and recommended that all officers in the country undergo at least eight hours of active shooter training annually.
“Three years is already too long to wait for truth and transparency that could prevent future tragedies,” Prather said.
Texas (R)s covering DPS's ass and keeping Uvalde survivors in the dark
https://www.uvaldeleadernews.com/art...oting-records/A new bill aims to keep more Texas law enforcement records confidential, and could block the release of the Department of Safety’s records on the May 24, 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting — including security footage, 911 call audio, misconduct records and more.
Senate Bill 15, which went to the House on Aug. 20, would keep essentially every do ent relating to any Texas law enforcement officer, including DPS officers, in a sealed department file. The only officer records that would be outside of this file, and therefore public, would be personnel files, which include: praise the officer receives, misconduct that results in a disciplinary action and officer evaluations.
DPS is still fighting to keep their Uvalde records hidden in court, over three years after the tragedy that killed 19 fourth-graders and two teachers. While Uvalde County and the school district relinquished their records on the shooting last week, the do ents were missing several key elements, including district emails and security footage. Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District claims that DPS and Texas Rangers seized the only video and audio from that day, and the district didn’t make any copies.
Pam Bondi just ed you all
https://beingliberal.substack.com/p/...e-gun-registryIn the recent case Reese v. ATF, a U.S. District Judge dropped a judicial bombs on Second Amendment lovers: plaintiffs, including the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC), were ordered to hand over a verified list of their members dating back to November 2020. President Trump’s DOJ headed by Pam Bondi managed to persuade the court this information was “necessary.”
The DOJ insisted the order only covered members already identified and verified during litigation — a clarification that did nothing to calm the outrage. SAF fired back immediately with a motion to amend, flatly declaring, “SAF has never — and will never — provide the government a list of our members.”
Critics wasted no time calling the order a government-sponsored gun rights registry. Gun Owners of America took to social media, warning, “This is just another illegal, uncons utional registry of gun owners in the making,” and directly blamed Bondi for using the DOJ to build one.
The news prompted gun rights activists to wonder if the Trump administration is preparing to stab them in the back. Suddenly, the administration that campaigned on absolute Second Amendment loyalty is asking for membership rosters.
where are all you 2A superpatriots anyway?
we sure could use you against a tyrannical government
Uvalde can't catch a break
https://www.expressnews.com/business...g-21114493.phpThe Kerrville Public Utility Board has been planning for decades to build its first natural gas power plant — it was just waiting for the right time.
Timing has often been in favor of the utility, as it was with the low interest rates it secured when it signed power purchase agreements for renewable resources, CEO and General Manager Mike Wittler said.
“We caught wind deals at about as low a cost as you could, and the same for solar,” he said. “We just had good timing.”
Then, the moment finally came when it was less expensive for the utility to build its own generating plant instead of solely distributing power it purchased. In late 2023, it issued a request for proposals.
In early 2024, the utility evaluated the pitches it received. About a month later came another stroke of luck — creation of the Texas Energy Fund.
“Stars aligned for us,” Wittler said.
But after it won financing through the fund and placed orders for major components of the plant, the utility’s luck ran out: New federal tariffs enacted this year could wind up adding as much as $28 million to the project’s cost.
When the orders were placed in December 2024, Assistant General Manager Amy Dozier said, “There was no tariff issue.”
That changed quickly.
putting moar cops in schools to brutalize kids was unfortunately a foreseeable result
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...Y.lzVzWCJbWTmkSince the massacre at Robb Elementary in Uvalde in 2022, school districts across Texas have spent billions of dollars to station police officers on every campus in the state. The effort, the most ambitious in the nation, was intended to protect students from similar tragedies.
But the constant presence of officers has transformed the way many public schools manage discipline, subjecting students to heavy-handed police tactics for behavior that once would have landed them only in the principal’s office, The New York Times and The San Antonio Express-News found.
Officers in Texas displayed startling belligerence at times, grabbing or tackling students a fraction of their size over misconduct that often appeared to be minor. Children in elementary school, including one as young as 6, were handcuffed. Teenagers were arrested, charged with crimes and even jailed.In the most extreme cases, they wound up in hospitals, bruised or concussed, after being body-slammed or shocked by Tasers, which are prohibited in the state’s juvenile detention facilities but allowed in its public schools.
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