Texas’s response to school shootings was as predictable as it was doomed to produce only more violence in schools — violence by cops.

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[–] 15 points 5 months ago (1 child)

texas pigs bleed like any other

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago

    Not surprised. Nothing gets a cop more rock hard than being able to bully somebody weaker than them.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago

    There are horrific details. Kids are routinely slammed to the ground for minor misbehavior. Police punch children in the face. They shock students with Tasers for being in the wrong place. Or point guns at unarmed teens. Cops put handcuffs on a 6-year-old who later cried to his father, “The police wants me to die!” In some cases, low-level disciplinary infractions that should lead to no more than a trip to the principal’s office left children facing criminal charges; the well-documented school-to-prison pipeline in all its ignominy.

    Gotta keep those private prisons stocked full future prisoners slaves.

    And there is no mention in the Times investigation of the demographic profiles of the children abused by cops, but the videos in the report overwhelmingly show what appear to be nonwhite children enduring violent police abuse.

    I'm shocked! Well not really shocked.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago

    Because the police were so fucking helpful during Uvalde.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    …to the surprise of nobody

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    The real reason they are in schools, not to protect but rather get kids used to their authority.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (1 child)
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    [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    I really want to some day see these fuckers pay for their crimes

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    [–] 36 points 5 months ago

    Well when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

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  • [–] 27 points 5 months ago

    If ONLY Someone had come in with a Gun because we KNOW Cops RUN AWAY from Kids with Guns!

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago*

    I still cannot believe the lack of community backlash again their local government. What else can these people take if getting your own children killed through inaction doesn't move the needle enough to killdozer your a police station. We really do live in an open air prison.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago

    Jesus Christ, going to a school minded by cops sounds awful. I'm so glad I came of age before school shootings became a daily phenomenon, and I feel like we owe the younger generations a huge fucking apology for electing the motherfuckers who did this.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    And they re- elected the same police chief. Guess dead kids wasn't enough for folks

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  • Yeah, there’s something deeply wrong with most Texans. They’re not good people. I know there are outliers and blue islands and such, and I know there’s a ton of voter suppression and all, but ho-leeee fuck, for a state that claims to have such a frontiersman, independent, go-your-own-way ethos, they are by and large a bunch of imbecilic bootlickers.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    And then our leadershit has the balls to ask "why aren't people reproducing anymore?" Gee you fucking morons, why do you think?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    American slavery was one of the most brutal forms of it throughout history. Nobody pays children to go to school.

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    [–] 18 points 5 months ago

    Conservatism is what happens when an entire ideology is structured around imposing the unexamined life upon everyone else

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Texas cops' response to Uvalde gave them a taste for killing kids and now they want more.

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    Surely nothing will go wrong when you brutalize the same people you're telling "the police protect against crime!"

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    If you search up "SRO arrested for abusing students" you'll find at least one article per month, for at least the last 20 years. And all that before this nonsense.

    But cruelty is the point, so this will continue.

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