Cont: Today's Mass Shooting (2)

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Some people will probably find this interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q7olC1LteE

It's a local news segment featuring an interview with the mom who was initially handcuffed at the scene, but then released, and went into the school to bring her kids out. Total piece is nine minutes long.
 
shemp said:
The two public schools in our town have had a police car with a cop stationed in front of them all day every day since the Uvalde shootings. Nothing at the local supermarket though.
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Jesus H Christ.

Fun country you have there.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
I was at Safeway an hour ago and there was an armed security guard there. Made me nervous that maybe there had been threats.

Normally I would just assume they are taking money to the bank or something. I didn't find out why he was there.
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shemp said:
The two public schools in our town have had a police car with a cop stationed in front of them all day every day since the Uvalde shootings. Nothing at the local supermarket though.
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Meanwhile, I haven't seen an armed policement in, oh, about 10 years, and I have never seen an armed security guard (because security guards in this country are not allowed to carry firearms)

The last time a saw a cop at a school was back in February - he was there at the beginning of the school term, at a pedestrian crossing teaching the kids and teachers who are "Crossing Wardens" how to manage the traffic.

The Atheist said:
Jesus H Christ.

Fun country you have there.
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Indeed!
 
Meadmaker said:
Some people will probably find this interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q7olC1LteE

It's a local news segment featuring an interview with the mom who was initially handcuffed at the scene, but then released, and went into the school to bring her kids out. Total piece is nine minutes long.
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Makes more sense now why she only got her 2 kids out. The other kids were still safe with their teachers.

It's also interesting at the end when it turns out there was the one small school district police department (the one with the chief getting all the flack for telling his officers not to go in), there were city police, the border patrol and US Marshalls (I think the reporter said). WTF, more than one person was there who could have said, screw this, we're going in. I'm glad border patrol finally did but it's a shame they were told not to delaying their action.
 
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Sideroxylon said:
“Not available in your country.” AU
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Ok. Basic summary. She shows up. She tells Marshalls she is going in. Marshalls put her in cuffs. Local PD says let her go. They let her go. She runs in, finds her kids, takes them out. They are apparently in a different wing of the school from the shooter, because she says there were no cops.

Then, she said, she had been speaking out, but it turns out she has a criminal record, and was no probation. She was threatened (not sure by who) with being charged with Obstruction of Justice if she kept talking. However, she had a hearing with a judge who called her brave, and shortened her probation period as a reward, and so she decided to give the interview.
 
smartcooky said:
Meanwhile, I haven't seen an armed policement in, oh, about 10 years, and I have never seen an armed security guard (because security guards in this country are not allowed to carry firearms)

The last time a saw a cop at a school was back in February - he was there at the beginning of the school term, at a pedestrian crossing teaching the kids and teachers who are "Crossing Wardens" how to manage the traffic.



Indeed!
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I saw the two armed response cops helping with traffic after a crash on the Trunk Road between Redcar and Middlesbrough once.
I have only seen cops at schools when they are having one of their periodic crack downs on bad parking by parents dropping off or picking up kids.
 
Checkmite said:
Clearly our cemeteries ought to be surrounded by concertina wire and have only one entrance which is defended by Czech hedgehogs and Burmese tiger-pits.
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Keeps the gunman out and the zombies in, a win win.
 
I think cops on patrol in airports are routinely armed - as far as I remember. I haven't been in an airport since October 2019, or in an English airport since I can't really remember when but more than five years anyway.

Seeing the guns on their belts gives me the creeps, to be honest.
 
I'm not entirely against the press being told to **** off around the funerals. It'd be nice if they just didn't show up to snap shots during that time. The families deserve a bit of privacy when it comes to burying their babies.

That being said, I don't exactly condone the way this was done. The press should have ****** off all on their own.
 
plague311 said:
I'm not entirely against the press being told to **** off around the funerals. It'd be nice if they just didn't show up to snap shots during that time. The families deserve a bit of privacy when it comes to burying their babies.

That being said, I don't exactly condone the way this was done. The press should have ****** off all on their own.
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It's not the press being told to **** off that is the problem. It's the biker gangs that the police asked to tell the press to **** off that is the problem here.
 
erlando said:
It's not the press being told to **** off that is the problem. It's the biker gangs that the police asked to tell the press to **** off that is the problem here.
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Yeah, I get it. That's why I said I don't condone the way it was done. My point was more than it shouldn't have needed to be done. The press, as humans, should have the good sense to leave those people alone during, what is assuredly, one of the most difficult moments of their lives. The fact they didn't shows how intrusive and heartless the media can be.
 
plague311 said:
Yeah, I get it. That's why I said I don't condone the way it was done. My point was more than it shouldn't have needed to be done. The press, as humans, should have the good sense to leave those people alone during, what is assuredly, one of the most difficult moments of their lives. The fact they didn't shows how intrusive and heartless the media can be.
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I'm not seeing much evidence that the press was engaging in any outrageous conduct. Considering how much effort the local PD is expending to avoid public scrutiny outside this specific context, it's pretty reasonable to suspect this has more to do with the cops doing damage control than any concern for the families of the dead (who would probably like to get some public explanations themselves).
 
alfaniner said:
The Prince mural is being unveiled downtown tonight, and there's a block party. That area is rather notorious on good days. I might have considered going down there (it's a beautiful evening), but the current climate of danger is too strong (plus a lot of remaining animosity towards this city's cops.)
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Nothing of incident at the Prince event last night, but plenty of other shenanigans in the city.

5 shootings in 10-hour span leave 7 hurt
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