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The City of Uvalde’s long-awaited independent investigation into its police response to the 2022 shooting at Robb Elementary School found that, despite failures in communication and leadership, the city agents who responded acted in “good faith.”
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‘Confront the attacker’: Texas police appear to have violated shooting response policy
Local law enforcement under scrutiny over delay in entering Uvalde classroom
“In Texas, Uvalde officers received their latest training in recent months with protocols advising that an “officer’s first priority is to move in and confront the attacker. This may include bypassing the injured and not responding to cries for help from children,” according to policy.”
SOURCE : https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/28/uvalde-school-shooting-police-procedures-columbine
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But unnamed law enforcement officials told the Associated Press on Saturday that officers from other agencies had urged the school police chief to let them move in sooner.
Audio recordings from the scene capture officers from other agencies telling Arredondo that the gunman was still active and that the priority was to stop him, a source told the news agency.
The Washington Post, citing a US Customs and Border Protection official, said an off-duty Border Patrol tactical agent had arrived outside the classroom where the school police officers had been waiting an hour and “basically said let’s get this done” before storming in and killing the gunman.
SOURCE : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/28/uvalde-school-shooting-police-procedures-columbine
#endqualifedimmunity
#endpolicebrutality
#Copsare_kkk_attackdogs
‘Confront the attacker’: Texas police appear to have violated shooting response policy
Local law enforcement under scrutiny over delay in entering Uvalde classroom
“In Texas, Uvalde officers received their latest training in recent months with protocols advising that an “officer’s first priority is to move in and confront the attacker. This may include bypassing the injured and not responding to cries for help from children,” according to policy.”
SOURCE : https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/28/uvalde-school-shooting-police-procedures-columbine
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But unnamed law enforcement officials told the Associated Press on Saturday that officers from other agencies had urged the school police chief to let them move in sooner.
Audio recordings from the scene capture officers from other agencies telling Arredondo that the gunman was still active and that the priority was to stop him, a source told the news agency.
The Washington Post, citing a US Customs and Border Protection official, said an off-duty Border Patrol tactical agent had arrived outside the classroom where the school police officers had been waiting an hour and “basically said let’s get this done” before storming in and killing the gunman.
SOURCE : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/28/uvalde-school-shooting-police-procedures-columbine
#endqualifedimmunity
#endpolicebrutality
#Copsare_kkk_attackdogs
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Local law enforcement under scrutiny over delay in entering Uvalde classroom
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The motto, "To Protect and Serve," first coined by the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1950s, has been widely copied by police departments everywhere. But what, exactly, is a police officer's legal obligation to protect people?
Must they risk their lives in dangerous situations like the one in Uvalde?
The answer is no.
In the 1981 case Warren v. District of Columbia, the D.C. Court of Appeals held that police have a general "public duty," but that "no specific legal duty exists" unless there is a special relationship between an officer and an individual, such as a person in custody.
The U.S. Supreme Court has also ruled that police have no specific obligation to protect. In its 1989 decision in DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, the justices ruled that a social services department had no duty to protect a young boy from his abusive father.
In 2005'sCastle Rock v. Gonzales, a woman sued the police for failing to protect her from her husband after he violated a restraining order and abducted and killed their three children. Justices said the police had no such duty.
Most recently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit upheld a lower court ruling that police could not be held liable for failing to protect students in the 2018 shooting that claimed 17 lives at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
SOURCE : https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/law-and-life/do-the-police-have-an-obligation-to-protect-you/
I would NOT EVER call on the police and I’ve never HAD.
Families of Uvalde shooting victims ask court to force DPS to release records
Attorney for six families files plea in intervention in Travis County District Court
Dillon Collier, Investigative Reporter
Published: March 15, 2023 at 11:34 AM
Tags: Robb Elementary School Shooting, Uvalde
AUSTIN, Texas – An attorney representing multiple families of victims in the Uvalde school massacre asked a state district judge in Austin this week to force the Texas Department of Public to release records from the shooting.
The filing asks the court the compel DPS to release records at the center of an ongoing lawsuit filed against the state agency by multiple media organizations, including KSAT 12.
The media organizations, including local, state and national newsrooms, filed requests under the Texas Public Information Act for records related to the state and local law enforcement response to the shooting.
SOURCE : https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2023/03/15/families-of-uvalde-shooting-victims-ask-court-to-force-dps-to-release-records/
Must they risk their lives in dangerous situations like the one in Uvalde?
The answer is no.
In the 1981 case Warren v. District of Columbia, the D.C. Court of Appeals held that police have a general "public duty," but that "no specific legal duty exists" unless there is a special relationship between an officer and an individual, such as a person in custody.
The U.S. Supreme Court has also ruled that police have no specific obligation to protect. In its 1989 decision in DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, the justices ruled that a social services department had no duty to protect a young boy from his abusive father.
In 2005'sCastle Rock v. Gonzales, a woman sued the police for failing to protect her from her husband after he violated a restraining order and abducted and killed their three children. Justices said the police had no such duty.
Most recently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit upheld a lower court ruling that police could not be held liable for failing to protect students in the 2018 shooting that claimed 17 lives at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
SOURCE : https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/law-and-life/do-the-police-have-an-obligation-to-protect-you/
I would NOT EVER call on the police and I’ve never HAD.
Families of Uvalde shooting victims ask court to force DPS to release records
Attorney for six families files plea in intervention in Travis County District Court
Dillon Collier, Investigative Reporter
Published: March 15, 2023 at 11:34 AM
Tags: Robb Elementary School Shooting, Uvalde
AUSTIN, Texas – An attorney representing multiple families of victims in the Uvalde school massacre asked a state district judge in Austin this week to force the Texas Department of Public to release records from the shooting.
The filing asks the court the compel DPS to release records at the center of an ongoing lawsuit filed against the state agency by multiple media organizations, including KSAT 12.
The media organizations, including local, state and national newsrooms, filed requests under the Texas Public Information Act for records related to the state and local law enforcement response to the shooting.
SOURCE : https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2023/03/15/families-of-uvalde-shooting-victims-ask-court-to-force-dps-to-release-records/
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