SNAFU*

The Uvalde Police Department and the Uvalde ISD police force are no longer cooperating with the @TxDPS investigation into the massacre at Robb Elementary and the state’s review of police response, multiple law enforcement sources told @ABC
w/ @JoshMargolin

— Aaron Katersky (@AaronKatersky) May 31, 2022

.@TxDPS: “Uvalde Police Department and Uvalde CISD Police have been cooperating with investigators. The chief of the Uvalde CISD Police provided an initial interview but has not responded to a request for a follow-up interview with the Texas Rangers that was made two days ago"

— Aaron Katersky (@AaronKatersky) May 31, 2022

I accept the causal analysis here, but I’m inclined to think it’s also that the DPS attitude toward the media (“Fuck all y’all”) is contagious.

Of course, the way the media is still screaming that they weren’t spoon-fed absolutely accurate information out of what was clearly a clusterfuck (how much cooperation between agencies was there, ever? I mean considering Uvalde police, (or was it Uvalde ISD police? Stories still differ .) told everybody to stop trying to save the children.), is more than enough to kill any cooperation, especially as it seems to be putting someone’s head in the predetermined narrative noose. A narrative and noose  some in the media (well, on Twitter, anyway, which is the raw Id of American media) are all ready to hang some agency with.

Would you “cooperate” yourself into a story where you end up with all the blame?

*Ask yet grandpa! I can’t be explaining’ everything to ya!