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UVALDE UPDATE: more copaganda, no transparency, some new details and a lot of spin. #coverup city [1]
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Date: 2022-07-07
Which of these popular consumer items is more heavily regulated and taxed in Uvalde? Welcome to hell on earth, aka Texas under GOP
Yesterday, eager media outlets amplified a new “report” by a Texas agency called ALERRT on the LEO response (or lack thereof) to the Uvalde shootings. Most all seized on a few assessments regarding the news that a UPD officer had a slim chance at shooting the killer with his rifle at a great distance before he entered the school, but turned to ask his supervisor if he could “take the shot” and missed his chance.
Here is the Texas Tribune’s report. Most orgs and outlets echo it with less context, and no link to the actual report. Read it if you want to see the latest timeline minus what they are still clearly hiding.
But please, people, don’t be so eager to not look a gift horse in the mouth. Always consider the messenger, not just the message. People are right to thirst for info on Uvalde but this ain’t the straight dope.
If you actually read the report itself, and the introduction, you will see that ALERRT (a cop training facility that runs active shooter drills for hire) was “requested to generate a report” by DPS, and ALERRT received a ONE HOUR PRESENTATION by THEY WON’T SAY WHO and used this and only this as the basis for their report. They viewed NO VIDEO and heard NO AUDIO whatsoever. They were merely TOLD by “an investigator” (whose agency and identity are unnamed) what (DPS, surely but they don’t even say!!!) that one person decided to tell ALERRT was on the recordings. The lack of full transparency here is astounding. It’s like someone dictating the Book of Mormon out the inside of a hat they alone get to hold. Believe it if you want to. But don’t expect me to be so gullible.
Once again the news cycle is controlled by the cops investigating the cops. And once again each new telling seems worse, but you have to also see that the only true consistent pattern is that that a state agency run by a FULL MAGA operative of the governor Greg Abbott are most likely still hiding the worst aspects of the Uvalde LEO response to the mass shooter event. They haven’t broken this pattern yet. Each time it is worse and the previous omissions and lies are ignored, but obvious.
This is FAILED STATE level of copaganda. And yet journalists publish it as though it were their sole job to carry water for whichever government agency has some spin to share.
More random thoughts and interesting small developments beyond the fold, but this is where we stand on Uvalde: bad things happened, and they won’t let us see the video yet, not now nor likely ever. The overall picture is that cops cannot and did not and will not stop a determined mass shooter in the USA, and the GOP would like you to be distracted by “doors” and “mental health,” and the blame game, so long as cops get more money and the GOP keeps the donations from the NRA flowing.
Your gun is safe, your kids, not so much.
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