Texas — in typical American Government fashion — is trying to conceal its cowardly response to the Uvalde school kids massacre

© 2022 Peter Free

 

02 August 2022

 

 

Cowards are lounging in the double-yellow zone — again

 

From ProPublica and The Texas Tribune — my addition in bracketed italics:

 

 

More than a dozen news organizations filed a lawsuit against the Texas Department of Public Safety on Monday, accusing the agency of unlawfully withholding public records related to the May school shooting in Uvalde.

 

[For a reasonable overview of the Uvalde sadness, see Reason's essays — here and here.]

 

A comprehensive report released in July by a Texas House of Representatives committee found that numerous law enforcement agencies, including the state police, failed to quickly confront the gunman, who killed 19 students and two teachers over the course of about 77 minutes.

 

DPS has provided little information about the actions of its 91 officers who responded to the scene.

 

DPS has said that releasing records could interfere with an ongoing investigation.

 

The news organizations argue that there is no such investigation, given that the guilt of the gunman is not in dispute and authorities say the 18-year-old acted alone.

 

The local prosecutor, Uvalde County District Attorney Christina Mitchell Busbee, has acknowledged that she is not conducting a criminal investigation.

 

In addition to ProPublica and the [Texas] Tribune, the plaintiffs include The New York Times Company, The Washington Post, NBC News, CNN, ABC News, CBS News, Scripps Media and Gannett.

 

The suit was brought in state district court in Travis County.

 

© 2022 Zach Despart, Coalition of news organizations sues Texas Department of Public Safety over withheld records on Uvalde shooting, Texas Tribune and ProPublica (01 August 2022)

 

 

The moral? — This is what our taxes go to pay for

 

Cowardice, repressing the public and destroying Liberty — while enthusiastically displaying Government-sponsored extortion.

 

Top levels of American governance are almost entirely about indulging legalized Oligarchic graft and grift.

 

Resist. Risk. Self-rely.