Thread by @FrancesMFDanger

I have been trying to wrap my brain around #Uvalde and come up with words about how horrific it is, how these executions are unacceptable, how we as a people are irretrievably broken if we don't do something to stop this immediately. 🧵

I keep coming back to those #UvaldePolice officers who not only didn't run towards the danger like everyone believes they should but in most cases do not but who forcibly detained parents who wanted to save their children, a task those cowards refused to do.

I was reading some Twitter threads about the drills that kids as young as 5 go through to prepare for an active shooter situation and they are training them to throw books and desks at a shooter if they get into the classroom.

If a fucking FIVE YEAR OLD is expected to fight then the cops need to do their fucking jobs and stop the shooter before it comes to that.

They were not outgunned. It was one guy. The guy was barricaded, sure, but that's when you flank his ass.

Attack from every side you can. I'm not a tactician but even I know that.

YOU PUT YOUR BODY ON THE LINE TO SAVE KIDS. PERIOD.

Let's be honest though. Cops aren't public servants. They haven't been in a long time, if they ever were. It's fucked up that they didn't make any effort to save those kids in that school and it's even more fucked up that they're trying to lie about it.

But the most fucked up thing is they're probably going to get away with it. That and that no substantive change will come of this.

TL;DR FTP