Abbott must go…and if Beto can pull it off, he has some great opportunities before him for better government.
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You have obviously never lived in Texas, where colossal corruption is the rule.
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The round has so much energy, damage from one round can literally explode parts of the body, especially a child.
Ask why the NRA is against photos of the dead children being published. It is like Americans are cowards.
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This being an opinion thread, I’ll voice the opinion that the school was on the wrong side of the tracks. Further, that the police force in Uvalde consisted of officers who were not first in their graduating class at police academy. Further, on that side of the tracks, when authorities from elsewhere show up it is customary to defer to them because: other side of the tracks. When deference meets dismissiveness, e.g., one side of the tracks toward the other, things that would surely be done on one side will not be done on the other because: other side of the tracks. It is similar to what happens when a judge from the privileged side of the tracks covers for the incompetent, illegal behavior of someone from the same side of the tracks as herself and, simultaneously, thwarts legalities pertaining to those on the other, less privileged side of the tracks, like the rest of us. Maybe we are all Uvalde.
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Until something horrible goes wrong and then those who should have known better scramble to get to the right side of the tracks.
Once that is accomplished, they can point their collective fingers - to the other side of the tracks.
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Allow me to introduce you to the Texas Tort Claims Act, which waives sovereign immunity for tort claims against the state and local governments and their inept personnel, but limits the liability of an “emergency services organization” to “money damages in a maximum amount of $100,000 for each person and $300,000 for each single occurrence for bodily injury or death and $100,000 for each single occurrence for injury to or destruction of property.” So the families get to split at most $300k from DPS, though I suppose there are other agencies that could be liable too.
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Though I may be wrong I think we can thank “I got mine, screw you - Abbott” for the changes in Texas law.
If it wasn’t him, it is OK to blame it on him.
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The TTCA hasn’t been changed much since it was enacted in 1985. IIRC, a plaintiff couldn’t sue the state for torts at all before then.
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Oh the limit is per incident not per family that suffered a loss?
$100k per person, capped at $300k total per incident. And the Uvalde shooting will definitely be considered one incident.
But they probably can’t tag the cops for any of it because the deaths and injuries didn’t result from the cops’ use of government property.
The TTCA is all kinds of awful.
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I hadn’t quite thought about it that way, but I can see your point.
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I think it’s more like @texastwostep described.
But anyway it sure does seem like Texas’ law enforcement agencies like their turf, and don’t play well with others.
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The longer this goes on, the more likely one of those f#@$^ shot a kid.
DPS investigates DPS, finds DPS did nothing wrong and everything right. Also DPS deserves a raise.
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The State Senator, Roland Guiterrez is the one person who is showing up for the citizens of Uvalde. He lives in San Antonio, TX. He has pretty much ignored is his re-election campaign because of this massacre. For all Texans reading this, please help, we are hoping to remind voters of this terrible tragedy by posting signs at all voting locations: REMEMBER UVALDE. If you close, consider finding a GOTV campaign for his re-election. Thanks
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