27 May 2022

ANAEMIC BLUE LINE

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-- "Uvalde spent roughly $4.1M of their $10.3M operating budget on police. This community doesn't have much money for other things once they're done paying the cops." --
WHEN SECONDS COUNT,  REAL POLICE ARE ONLY 60 MINUTES AWAY...
-- "Victor Escalon, South Texas director of the Texas Department of Public Safety said at the briefing that officers did not move on the room Ramos was in for NEARLY AN HOUR, until a team of heavily armed Border Patrol agents arrived." --
UVALDE COPS... FLEE, FLEE... RUN AWAY!
-- "Despite the four minute response time... they hear gunfire, they take rounds, they move back and take cover." --

That's weird... not everybody ran away. 

COMPARE AND CONTRAST

-- "This man man climbed out of his eighth floor apartment window to catch the helpless three-year-old girl." --
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-- "Kristy Denette, a spokesperson for the province's police watchdog said two Toronto police officers discharged their firearms at the man during 'an interaction.' She confirmed to CTV News Toronto that it was a BB gun that was retrieved. Denette said the available information does not indicate that the man fired at officers." --
Hey... what's a little theatre between friends?
-- The president of the Toronto Police Association said two officers were taken to the hospital for a checkup to make sure they’re okay." --
This one looks like 'suicide by cop.'