The Music 🎶 Goes ‘Round And ‘Round…

.⁦@samthielman⁩: “The lesson here… is that police departments lie, primarily to make themselves look like necessary servants of an endangered public. Allowing them to self-justify off the record is, at this point, inexcusable.” | ⁦@atrupar⁩ https://t.co/EK7kRK0fZS

— Poli Alert (@polialertcom) May 31, 2022

The lesson here is police departments don’t have an obligation to tell the media everything they know. They also don’t have the capacity of perfect knowledge, even days after an event.

The story was some teacher left the back door propped open. Her lawyer said she actually closed the door when she saw the shooter on campus. Why didn’t the door lock? That’s what DPS wants to know now.

Why did they see her prop the door open on tape, and now they see her close the same door? Welcome to the world of eyewitness testimony.

There is a reason DPS is trying to conduct an investigation. That’s how they will find out what happened. But they don’t have any compulsory powers, either. No grand jury (what crime was committed by not telling the media the “correct” story in a timely manner?), no subpoena power. They have to investigate, but that means trying to talk to people who no longer want to talk to them.

Journalists are supposed to investigate, not play stenographers. Maybe they should quit whining and ask questions themselves. Although I think most of this noise is coming from wannabes on Twitter.

It has been one week since the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

In response, a dark-money group from Missouri launched a "Woke Heat Map" so that fascists can "fight back" against a "woke agenda."

Twelve locations are tagged.

All of them are schools.

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— Lindsey Simmons (@LynzforCongress) May 31, 2022

You remember? The problem of too many guns?

It’s almost as if carrying a rifle around while shopping is consistent with broader bad judgment and impaired normality. https://t.co/RrAdyhC2kS

— PeachtreeDishHat (@Popehat) June 1, 2022

Besides, what was that story again?

Uvalde Police stop cooperating with Texas investigation into school mass shooting: Reporthttps://t.co/mZbdG5Lnzh

— Raw Story (@RawStory) June 1, 2022

That’s from several sources, but no comment from Uvalde PD or ISD. Meanwhile…

Prokupecz then asked Arredondo about accusations from his own department that say he was responsible for the police delay in breaching the classroom to eliminate the shooter, to which he replied that more information would be released "when the families stop grieving." Arredondo went on to claim that he's "been on the phone with" Texas Rangers "every day," and denied reports that he's stopped cooperating with the investigation.

 The real question is still not “what happened?” but “why does this keep happening?” And why does it take such horror to make us start to reconsider our least important convictions? 

Longtime Uvalde residents say the city is a hunting mecca and the love for guns goes right along with it. But some would now support measures like raising the age limit to buy AR-style weapons or monitoring high-volume ammunition purchases. https://t.co/m7pV9MuvE7

— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) June 1, 2022

God help us all. It seems we’ve done all we can do.