Scapegoat

‘Unfathomable’: NBC reporter breaks down the 2 key gaps in Uvalde police response
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— Raw Story (@RawStory) May 26, 2022

“The facts are so in conflict with each other right now that the only thing I can tell you with certainty is that the communications coming out of law enforcement right now are horribly broken. We're all familiar with the physician's Hippocratic Oath, do no harm. That press conference today by that regional DPS director did harm."

The media is tired of talking to grieving parents, so now they are bitching about DPS not spoon feeding them fast enough.

The press conference debunked a story I have heard repeatedly: that there was an armed ISD police officer on campus when the shooter jumped the fence onto the campus. There was no one in campus with a gun except the shooter. It hasn’t even yet been confirmed a door was unlocked. (MSNBC made much of this imaginary officer, insisting they had never reported it, while admitting they had reported that officials had reported it. The irony that all they have to report is what officials report to them, was lost on them.)

It is not lost on me that the journalists complaining about officials not investigating this shooting faster, are all on cable.

As for rushing the shooter, he was locked in a classroom (that apparently locked behind him. Security doors can lock in, or lock out.) armed with a weapon that was shooting holes through the cinder block walls.

And everyone in that room could have been dead within 40 seconds. If they weren’t, and anything less than a full SWAT team blew the door and charged in, any assault on the door would probably trigger a massacre. So letting the parents storm the place was also a non-starter.

Which is not to say all involved covered themselves in heroic glory. But apparently the press is bored with dead children and is taking out their anxiety and stress on the failure to feed them information nobody yet has.

The comparison to Trump bitching because election returns aren’t finished before midnight on Election Day is not a coincidence.

I’m terribly sorry we don’t have every last detail of this horror identified and settled as a matter of historical fact after 48 hours. But I’m quite sure the families don’t care, and that the republic will prevail.

The cable TV whingers can pound sand.