Jackson Jambalaya

First, police generally do a great job and we should support them. But, until recently many people have failed to acknowledge a the most critical aspect of police culture... CYA "cover your ass" Sometimes police do take it too far.

DISGUSTING! COWARDICE! How can this happen in one of the most cowboy gun toting bravado states! Lawsuits cometh.

Attn 10:59 Law suits don’t return lives. The fact that this is your thought process tells a Lot about you.

Cop worship in this country is almost cult like. Anyone that has a thin blue line/Punisher sticker on their vehicle should be roundly mocked and shunned.

How can Arrendo live with himself? He has a last chance to do an honorable thing.

There is more to the story, don’t believe everything the fake news is making it appear! The woman was no where near the actual shooter! If you listen to her account you can glean those facts! With that said there still are a lot of questions on the conduct of the police’

@1:15 PM we certainly can't believe everything that we read on the internet, and that includes you, bucko.

Tell us the rest of the story, are you an eyewitness?

It must really burn your ass that this woman went into that school for her children. Why do I say this? The first thing you do is attack the credibility of the woman's story. Ain't you a piece of work.

"threatened to charge a mother who rescued her children for talking to the media." I'm a cop, not from Uvalde or anywhere in Texas, but I really don't think this would stick and that they were just doing that, threatening her, thinking she'd back off. They, my brother cops, will get over it. I will add that ever since Michael Brown in Mo, I have seen many of my kind backing off (CYA) in situations where in the past it used to be balls to the wall. Would I try to stop a civilian from trying to get their kids out during gunfire, yes, but I understand the desire of a parent trying to do so. Would I use pepper spray or Taser, absolutely not. Not an easy thing either way you look at it.

All the "support the blue" people got quiet all of a sudden. That's the world we live in. Kinda like the fans pleading with Ole Miss last year to extend Bianco.

What?
Some of you now understand that not all law enforcement is properly trained , smart enough, or suited for the job?
Never noticed that some departments seem to have a lot of relative hires or are relatives of city, county or State officials?

Oh, be still my heart! You've emerged from your cave!

I never expected you to learn about Tammany Hall when Teddy was Prez. in school...that was likely banned ( can't have us thinking ill of our past corruption or violence), but hooray!

I wonder if the border patrol agent was also threatened with arrest for doing interviews with the media. It’s a whole new level of cowardice when hearing your actions reported on tv makes you want to arrest the decent people who did the right thing. The thin yellow line has got to end.

Seems some anal sphincter muscles are starting to get very tight within the Uvalde PD.

Heads will roll. Resignations will flow. Cardboard boxes are on order. It's always embarrassing when two people bring the same crockpot-dish to the going away party. And all the women want to cheat their lunch hour and get there twelve minutes early.

If this were China...we'd be looking at ten suicides.

Is it just me, or do those uniforms look like they belong to the secret army of a Bond villain? What the hell is going on down there?

Back the Blue all day long but there is a reciprocity in such support. They take an oath to put their lives on the lines and when something like Parkland or Uvalde comes up, we expect them to do just that to save those kids or else they shouldn't wear the badge.

Talked to former Sheriff Lewis the other day and he said the quality candidates who used to become cops no longer want to enter the profession, hence law enforcement is getting a lower grade of recruit. Not to mention all the marches, defunding the police movement, lawyers, lawsuits, Justice Dept. investigations, and advocacy journalism makes the brass more hesitant to use force.

Look at what happened when the police shot that girl who was trying to kill another girl with a knife. Police were villified no matter what the black victim said.

Again, to all of my fellow right wing folk. They don’t work for you. They aren’t here to protect you, they are here to protect the government. They stopped parents from saving their own children. They did so, to worsen the outcome and help push for disarmament of average citizens. Take the Thin Blue Line sticker off your shit. They want you dead.

Maybe those cops got confused and thought they should have been social workers at that crucial time.

Now they are blaming their radios. Maybe their K-9s ate them?

8:10 a.m., You realize this took place in Texas, don’t you? Texas led the way in open-carry, etc.

I back the blue, but not blindly and not when they are wrong. Most cops are good and do a great job. But, like most professions (mine included) there are some bad apples.

8:10. Best comment on the thread. Carry your own to cover your own self.

Respect is earned. Unfortunately, the “good” Cops aren’t willing to hold the bad cops accountable. The few bad apples have spoiled the entire bunch. I think most people would be willing to make running from or assaulting the police a more serious crime with harsher punishments if the police and prosecutors were able to hold the bad cops accountable. I don’t think that will happen as long as gang rules reign over the thin blue line.

3:57- I'd argue that there needs to be more people getting quiet at times and see nothing wrong with it.

Seems one of our biggest societal problems, is the inability to think for one's self and resist the urge to blindly defend anyone or any group.

I am happy that people who normally defend cops are not defending them when the behavior is not defensible. That is how rational people behave.

But enjoy your self-righteousness, and by all means...defend your overlords regardless of the individual scenario.