I will be watching this hearing, so that likely means some tweets. I can already tell that a lot of these politicians are going to piss me off. We've already got a, “Laws don't work, what about Chicago?”
Steve McCraw is up now.
McCraw says that 18 months before the shooting Ramos started buying supplies. He had asked a relative to buy him a gun and they refused, but he bought magazines, a scope, other accessories. "And he had money." #uvalde
McCraw wandering away from the mic is gonna kill me.
In a press conf if the speaker goes away from the mic everyone yells out, and the press probably wants to now. McCraw's voice just goes completely silent about half the time & I can't see the timeline so I'm deaf & blind. 😭
This is what we're dealing with. #uvalde
McCraw makes no bones about who was in charge. It was Arradondo.
McCraw shows Arredondo comms reinforcing that, then he explains procedure. The tone is getting more withering towards Arredondo. Doesn't look like he'll be spared today. (And we got a mic assist.) #Uvalde
12:20 Chief Arredondo: "I just need a key. Tell them to fucking wait. No one comes in."
12:21 Ramos fires 4 more rounds. *Not a "barricaded subj"
... more, all infuriating
12:28 Chief A: "The door's probably gonna be locked. I'm gonna get some more keys to test." #Uvalde
McCraw confirms what @bchasnoff reported Sunday. There was no way for the teacher, *or for Ramos* to lock the door from the inside. These are not the doors to 111 and 112, but those two doors were just like these. #Uvalde
McCraw is withering that not one officer so much as touched the door
"We've gone back & checked, did anybody touch the door? ...How about trying the door & see if it was unlocked? Okay? You know, what we used to call a 'clue.' Why not? And of course, no one had." #uvalde
NEW: The only rounds found that were fired by law enforcement inside the school were the rounds fired into room 111 *at the time of the breach.*
We've heard a whole lot about officers firing at Ramos early on, but that, also, does not appear to have ever been true. #Uvalde
-2 rifles wi 5 mins. McC: "you don't need a rifle. You have a gun. You have body armor."
-No attempt to try the door. Arredondo made it all up.
-A. said there was an office there. "It's not an admin bldg. These were classrooms"
-McC: If you got one officer, that's enough. #uvalde
The reason TX DPS stopped talking to the media, according to Dir. Steve McCraw, is that the district attorney muzzled them. He doesn't use the word "muzzled," of course, but that directive shutting off info to the public came directly from DA Christina Busbee. #Uvalde
Uvalde City Council: Extremely inspired by the lady who lives 2 doors down from the school coming up w the plan to sack Arredondo. No leave of abs. If he misses 1 more mtg he's out. If he wants to keep his job he has to show. She studied & found a technicality no one else had.
I know this won't get eyeballs, but I cannot tell you what a pure feeling of— if not empowerment, at least not helplessness she was. Listening to McCraw's testimony followed by TX tossing more 💰 at LE, then the J6C: lots of guilty ppl, no relief.
Gough should have severed ages ago and I believe his reasons for not doing so had nothing to do with his client's best interests and everything to do with his personal interests.
Says the vigilante evidence against Travis on the stand was what made the difference. #AhmaudArbery
State (Ollivierre) arguing against severance. Turns out this court's training me not to hover over the webpage for new docs didn't fail me. Nothing new.
(Cahill was the opposite. By the time he said anything, it was prob up. Motions were thorough & arguments short.) #AhmaudArbery
This is the testimony ADA Dunikoski is going to read and show to the jury, alongside a copy of this jury instruction.
"He said it himself. He said it himself. There is no citizen's arrest here, and you know that from the defendant's own words there on the stand." #AhmaudArbery
DUNIKOSKI: It's it true from your training that you need two parts of probable cause? You need probable cause that a crime has actually been committed, and that the person you're arresting is the one who committed the crime?
There are several levels of bad answers. #AhmaudArbery
"Found out where he lived & been watching him sev days"
This does obliterate the "I suspected Ahmaud of stealing my gun" bullshit, but it's also another hint & how he & daddy were playing cop. #AhmaudArbery
Not captioning this one bc my arm hurts & my face finally swelled up🤕🦷
FRI, NOV 12
This is the clip of Greg McMichael getting his bloody hands photographed, but the words are important, too.
The judge is on time today, but "one of the state's witnesses is running late because they can't LOCATE HIM." It's not Rash. I have no clue. #AhmaudArbery
We didn't get to *see* him, but we heard Gough sound chastened. He apologized a little. #AhmaudArbery
A quick peek at Ofc Rash doing the normal opening stuff, just so those who are curious & can't see him can get an idea of what this cop who helped sic Greg McMichael on #AhmaudArbery looks & sounds like. Not what I expected.
Two FLEX CUFF guys have been charged “in connection with events at the US Capitol”
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Larry Rendell Brock of TX
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Eric Gavelek Munchel of TN
At this point the charges are minor, but there’s more than a decent chance that will change.
I would have promised her anything, then. I tried. I was, for the only time in our relationship, her sword and shield. Her knight. The moment I knew she would die I became her hero. But she gave me no one to battle. She just starved. It was quick. Too quick & not quick enough.
We found out the last week of September and she spent the last full month of her life watching the Food Channel & crying because she wanted to taste food again. Then, at the very end, when was a baby bird I could hold on my lap, she whispered for me to read Alice & Huck.
Alice had always been ours, and there was more to come on that front, items planted for full effect – she loved drama – for me to find after she died, understanding that messages from the dead have serious power. (The minx.) But Alice was more about reinforcing a language...