If you don't come out of this Uvalde tragedy with a concrete understanding of the actual function of policing in America then I don't know what will make you realize that saving lives isn't part of the job
I think framing their inaction and the way they enabled a massacre as "incompetence" is too small of a characterization. Those officers are completely competent at carrying out their jobs which is mostly terrorizing Black and brown people, which they did expertly all afternoon
But calling those individual cops "incompetent" is like hiring a demolition crew to build your house and be angry when they can't. They weren't created to build houses like police weren't created to run into buildings and save brown kids' lives
Police are really really great at their jobs. Their jobs just aren't what we're told they are. And that's the part people need to understand.
Police aren't put in schools to make them safer. That's preposterous. They're put in schools to criminalize children. They're put in schools to assault children. They were never put in schools to save anyone. Any kid who's had police patrolling their hallways knows this.
Always read @dereckapurnell whose work will guide you through this moment:
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