We live in a wicked culture where absolutely no one is ever held responsible for anything.
An "internal investigation" at the Uvalde Police Department has determined that, surprise, the officers who first showed up to the mass shooting that resulted in the deaths of 19 children and 2 teachers did nothing wrong.
The investigation found that none of the initial five Uvalde police officers who attended the scene violated policy or committed serious acts of misconduct, prompting outrage from victims' families in the room.
First responders waited 77 minutes before engaging with the gunman on 24 May 2022 - a delay which has come under much criticism in the nearly two years since.
If you needed it, here's an awful reminder of how terrible the officers in this case were.
And now they've decided the Uvalde cops did the right thing?
In January, the DOJ condemned everything about the Uvalde response. There has been no positive defense of their cowardly actions from any outside source. But internally? They were perfect!
Thursday's announcement came in complete contrast to that damning report, absolving Uvalde police Sgt Donald Page, Lt Javier Martinez, Detective Louis Landry and Staff Sgt Eduardo Canales of any accusations that they violated department policy...
"How do you live with yourselves? Shame on y'all," Veronica Mata, the mother of 10-year-old victim Tess Mata, said during the public comment portion of the meeting.
"You said they did it in good faith. You call that good faith? They stood there 77 minutes and waited after they got call after call."
The police stopped parents who would have gone in to save their children from entering the school while they stood around and did nothing.
And NO ONE is going to be held responsible?
There was a day when people this cowardly would move out of town and never show their faces again. We used to have something called shame. Now you can let kids die with just one door between you and the killer and your employer will bail you out.
The former detective who led the investigation and announced the findings of the city council investigation fled the room immediately after the announcement, and he would not face the parents that had come looking for justice.
Here's part of what he told the crowd:
"When the officers initially made entry into the school, they made 28 attempts to use their radios to get information out to the rest of the officers that were showing up," he said at the meeting. "And these were 28 attempts before they were shot at that I counted from the body cams and from any video that I received.
"They had no idea what they were facing when they got here until somebody went outside … of the building to get on the radio."
Mr Prado praised the officers, saying that they showed "immeasurable strength" and "level-headed thinking" as they dealt with the unfolding situation at the elementary school.
Only a bureaucratic, pencil-pushing, wicked government employee covering for his buddies could heap praise on the officers who twiddled their thumbs and scrolled through their phones while children were being slaughtered.
At least, that's the opinion of the people of Uvalde.
Tragedy continues to multiply in Uvalde, Texas.
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