“The 24-hour waiting period, which would begin the moment dispatchers received their first 911 call, would help police be ‘100% certain’ that protecting the public was prudent.”
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Castle Rock v. Gonzales, 545 U.S. 748 (2005), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled, 7–2, that a town and its police department could not be sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for failing to enforce a restraining order, which had led to the murder of a woman’s three children by her estranged husband.
That’s the US …no duty for the police to protect citizens.
This one is kind of a cheap shot.
We’re pissed. Even the Abbott admin is going after the creeps in Uvalde, who have stopped cooperating with their investigation. The feds are investigating as well after they changed their story TWELVE TIMES and then got caught lying at least once more after that.
This one isn’t a Texas thing. At this point we’re pretty sure it literally shouldn’t have happened. Dude shouldn’t have even gotten into the building if even one cop did his job. The whole state is in mourning and is extremely angry. Cops from all over are going down there to volunteer and cover shifts, nobody wants that police force anywhere near the streets.
This doesn’t really hang together, Mr. D. A white cop refusing to put himself at risk to save a brown kid actually sounds like about the most Texas thing ever.
Sure, everyone’s going to pretend it was plain vanilla cowardice/incompetence. But this was done in Texas, by Texans. Some people will be pissed, others will see it as expedient to appear to be pissed. A few cops will lose their pensions (or at least let’s hope so) because the story went national, but Abbott’s not going to do anything substantial that might stop this from happening again.
“Nature Mom says:
May 31, 2022 at 7:27 pm
Oh come on, man. Where’s your usual outrage at the big-government boot on your neck, their gazpacho tactics…or are you in the pocket of Big Dildo?”
This was too funny not to respond to. This dildo law may be the most ridiculous law on the books in a long list of ridiculous laws. It should rain dildos. My only point was change the laws. Too many elected officials these days simply ignore the laws they don’t agree with. It’s simply lazy and avoids the need to compromise. We need compromise and horse trading back in American politics. Laws should not be “optional” though. They should be debated and passed or modified.
Wrong, as usual, and completely and totally ignorant of reality to boot.
Cops ignore laws because they *can*. The Supremes invented Qualified Immunity (out of thin fucking air) and, ever since, cops do whatever the fuck they want when they want and then claim QI.
To paraphrase Blazing Saddles – Steverino Johnson is right! Idiot laws should be changed. (A law against QI should be passed, but that’s a whole other hemorrhoid.) Instead the House and Senate do what they’re best at: nothing. Meanwhile, ignoring the stupider laws is a common-sense pragmatic stopgap. But it just builds contempt for the law long-term.