Maaaaannn....you gotta see this interview
(May 24 2023) - Another Sandy Hook just happened
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11-Year-Old Uvalde School Shooting Survivor Suffers Heart Attack While Dropping Off Teddy Bear At Best Friend’s Memorial - Perez Hilton
An 11-year-old survivor of the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, was hospitalized after visiting the memorial of her best friend, who she lost in
Man Robbed Of Assault Rifle At Gunpoint Opens Fire With Second Gun
The accused robber was struck multiple times, and two bystanders were wounded in the St. Louis shootout.
Release of Uvalde records delayed pending decision from AG Paxton
AUSTIN (KXAN) — On Thursday, KXAN received a copy of a letter sent to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton from a law firm representing the city of Uvalde. The letter was regarding the distribution of information from open records requests made surrounding the May 24 mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
In the letter, the law firm, Denton Navarro Rocha Bernal & Zech, P.C., requested Paxton decide if the requested information is exempt from disclosure under the Public Information Act.
The law firm said the city of Uvalde claimed, “the requested information is not information that is collected, assembled or maintained under a law or ordinance or in connection with the transaction of official business by a governmental body or for a governmental body or is excepted from disclosure.”
KXAN requested the 911 recordings and computer-aided dispatch (CAD) report, as well as 911 transcriptions of calls made surrounding the shooting.
On Thursday, the law firm responded to KXAN acknowledging the open records request, but the requested information was not provided — only an explanation and copy of the letter sent to Paxton were given.
After the school shooting and the gunman’s death in Uvalde, some transparency advocates worried police may try to use Texas’ “Dead Suspect Loophole” to keep significant details about what really happened away from the public and even victims’ families.
For years, KXAN investigators have explored Texas law enforcement’s widespread use of the open records measure known as the “Dead Suspect Loophole.” Lawmakers have repeatedly sought to close the loophole, which allows police to withhold information in closed criminal cases that don’t go through the court process — even when a suspect dies in police custody.
In the letter to Paxton, the law firm made a list of 52 items it believed should be excluded from open records requests surrounding the school shooting.
AUSTIN (KXAN) — On Thursday, KXAN received a copy of a letter sent to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton from a law firm representing the city of Uvalde. The letter was regarding the distribution of information from open records requests made surrounding the May 24 mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
In the letter, the law firm, Denton Navarro Rocha Bernal & Zech, P.C., requested Paxton decide if the requested information is exempt from disclosure under the Public Information Act.
The law firm said the city of Uvalde claimed, “the requested information is not information that is collected, assembled or maintained under a law or ordinance or in connection with the transaction of official business by a governmental body or for a governmental body or is excepted from disclosure.”
KXAN requested the 911 recordings and computer-aided dispatch (CAD) report, as well as 911 transcriptions of calls made surrounding the shooting.
On Thursday, the law firm responded to KXAN acknowledging the open records request, but the requested information was not provided — only an explanation and copy of the letter sent to Paxton were given.
After the school shooting and the gunman’s death in Uvalde, some transparency advocates worried police may try to use Texas’ “Dead Suspect Loophole” to keep significant details about what really happened away from the public and even victims’ families.
For years, KXAN investigators have explored Texas law enforcement’s widespread use of the open records measure known as the “Dead Suspect Loophole.” Lawmakers have repeatedly sought to close the loophole, which allows police to withhold information in closed criminal cases that don’t go through the court process — even when a suspect dies in police custody.
In the letter to Paxton, the law firm made a list of 52 items it believed should be excluded from open records requests surrounding the school shooting.
Texas Police Want Uvalde Bodycam Footage Suppressed Because It Could Expose Law Enforcement ‘Weakness’
The Texas Department of Public Safety asked the state's Attorney General to prevent the public release of body camera footage in response to a public records request from Motherboard.
By Jason Koebler
The Texas Department of Public Safety has asked the state's Office of the Attorney General to prevent the public release of police body camera footage from the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde in part because, it argues, the footage could be used by other shooters to determine "weaknesses" in police response to crimes.
The office of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton will now review audio and body camera footage recorded by the department to determine if any of it can be released, according to a letter the department sent Motherboard in response to a public records request we filed asking for "photographs and audio as well as video records" recorded by Department of Public Safety officers.
“Revealing the marked records would provide criminals with invaluable information concerning Department techniques used to investigate and detect activities of suspected criminal elements; how information is assessed and analyzed; how information is shared among partner law enforcement agencies and the lessons learned from the analysis of prior criminal activities,” the department wrote in a letter to the Office of the Attorney General that asked the office to prevent the release of the public records. “Knowing the intelligence and response capabilities of Department personnel and where those employees focus their attention will compromise law enforcement purposes by enabling criminals to anticipate weakness in law enforcement procedures and alter their methods of operation in order to avoid detection and apprehension.”
Soon after the shooting, in which a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers, Motherboard filed a public records request with Uvalde police, the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, the Department of Homeland Security and DHS’s Customs and Border Patrol, and the Texas Department of Public Safety. In those requests, we sought body camera footage, CCTV footage, audio recordings, and photos from the scene in an attempt to gain more clarity about what law enforcement did at the scene of the shooting. Uvalde police, in particular, have been criticized for not following protocol and allowing the shooter to stay in a classroom without trying to stop him, and for preventing parents from trying to stop the shooter themselves. Authorities said that this was the "wrong decision."
Customs and Border Patrol rejected our request within a day, noting that any body camera footage is part of an active investigation and thus exempt from Freedom of Information requests. Uvalde Police and the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, who were not cooperating with an investigation by DHS, have yet to acknowledge our requests. By law, they have 10 business days to respond; in practice, many government agencies around the country simply ignore freedom of information requests or only respond when badgered or threatened with litigation. Motherboard filed those requests nine business days ago.
The Texas Department of Public Safety, however, responded quickly to our request and acknowledged that “photographs and audio as well as video records” do exist. Last week, the New York Times published details from a transcript of body camera footage.
“The Department has located records responsive to your request; however, we believe the records may be excepted from required public disclosure at this time,” a lawyer for the department said. “We are seeking a ruling from the Office of the Attorney General with respect to disclosure of these records, and a copy of our request letter is enclosed.”
In that letter, the department is seeking guidance on our request as well as about a dozen others. The Department of Public Safety told the state attorney general that it believes the footage should be exempted because it is part of an active investigation. Notably, the police are also claiming that publishing the footage would somehow help other mass shooters and thus should be kept private. The Office of the Texas Attorney General will eventually have to decide if it will release any footage.
Citing an “active investigation” is one of the easiest ways for police to prevent information from being divulged to the public, because federal and state public records laws generally have a carveout that prevents records related to an active investigation from being released. In that sense, immediately requesting body camera footage from a mass shooting using a public records request is often a fool’s errand. As VICE News explained earlier this month, police have also used something known as the “dead suspect loophole” to prevent body camera footage from being released.
However, Motherboard has had success in the past obtaining body camera footage from mass tragedies in Texas in the past. In 2016, the day after a sniper killed five police officers in Dallas during a protest against the police killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, Motherboard requested footage related to the police use of a bomb strapped to a robot to kill the shooter. That request went through a similar process to the one described above, with police sending our request to the Texas Attorney General. In the Dallas Police Department's letter to the Texas Attorney General, it asked that footage be suppressed because it could be "embarrassing." In April of last year, nearly five years after our initial request, the Dallas Police Department released hundreds of gigabytes of photos, body camera footage, and surveillance camera footage of the events of that night.
The Texas Department of Public Safety asked the state's Attorney General to prevent the public release of body camera footage in response to a public records request from Motherboard.
By Jason Koebler
The Texas Department of Public Safety has asked the state's Office of the Attorney General to prevent the public release of police body camera footage from the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde in part because, it argues, the footage could be used by other shooters to determine "weaknesses" in police response to crimes.
The office of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton will now review audio and body camera footage recorded by the department to determine if any of it can be released, according to a letter the department sent Motherboard in response to a public records request we filed asking for "photographs and audio as well as video records" recorded by Department of Public Safety officers.
“Revealing the marked records would provide criminals with invaluable information concerning Department techniques used to investigate and detect activities of suspected criminal elements; how information is assessed and analyzed; how information is shared among partner law enforcement agencies and the lessons learned from the analysis of prior criminal activities,” the department wrote in a letter to the Office of the Attorney General that asked the office to prevent the release of the public records. “Knowing the intelligence and response capabilities of Department personnel and where those employees focus their attention will compromise law enforcement purposes by enabling criminals to anticipate weakness in law enforcement procedures and alter their methods of operation in order to avoid detection and apprehension.”
Soon after the shooting, in which a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers, Motherboard filed a public records request with Uvalde police, the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, the Department of Homeland Security and DHS’s Customs and Border Patrol, and the Texas Department of Public Safety. In those requests, we sought body camera footage, CCTV footage, audio recordings, and photos from the scene in an attempt to gain more clarity about what law enforcement did at the scene of the shooting. Uvalde police, in particular, have been criticized for not following protocol and allowing the shooter to stay in a classroom without trying to stop him, and for preventing parents from trying to stop the shooter themselves. Authorities said that this was the "wrong decision."
Customs and Border Patrol rejected our request within a day, noting that any body camera footage is part of an active investigation and thus exempt from Freedom of Information requests. Uvalde Police and the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, who were not cooperating with an investigation by DHS, have yet to acknowledge our requests. By law, they have 10 business days to respond; in practice, many government agencies around the country simply ignore freedom of information requests or only respond when badgered or threatened with litigation. Motherboard filed those requests nine business days ago.
The Texas Department of Public Safety, however, responded quickly to our request and acknowledged that “photographs and audio as well as video records” do exist. Last week, the New York Times published details from a transcript of body camera footage.
“The Department has located records responsive to your request; however, we believe the records may be excepted from required public disclosure at this time,” a lawyer for the department said. “We are seeking a ruling from the Office of the Attorney General with respect to disclosure of these records, and a copy of our request letter is enclosed.”
In that letter, the department is seeking guidance on our request as well as about a dozen others. The Department of Public Safety told the state attorney general that it believes the footage should be exempted because it is part of an active investigation. Notably, the police are also claiming that publishing the footage would somehow help other mass shooters and thus should be kept private. The Office of the Texas Attorney General will eventually have to decide if it will release any footage.
Citing an “active investigation” is one of the easiest ways for police to prevent information from being divulged to the public, because federal and state public records laws generally have a carveout that prevents records related to an active investigation from being released. In that sense, immediately requesting body camera footage from a mass shooting using a public records request is often a fool’s errand. As VICE News explained earlier this month, police have also used something known as the “dead suspect loophole” to prevent body camera footage from being released.
However, Motherboard has had success in the past obtaining body camera footage from mass tragedies in Texas in the past. In 2016, the day after a sniper killed five police officers in Dallas during a protest against the police killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, Motherboard requested footage related to the police use of a bomb strapped to a robot to kill the shooter. That request went through a similar process to the one described above, with police sending our request to the Texas Attorney General. In the Dallas Police Department's letter to the Texas Attorney General, it asked that footage be suppressed because it could be "embarrassing." In April of last year, nearly five years after our initial request, the Dallas Police Department released hundreds of gigabytes of photos, body camera footage, and surveillance camera footage of the events of that night.
Duncanville Fieldhouse police shooting disrupts youth summer camp
According to police, the gunman tried to enter a classroom with children inside but was unsuccessful. That’s when police say he fired a second shot from the hallway at the door. The assistant police chief says his officers did exactly what they were trained to do: stop the threat immediately.
Pigs scared to release footage of the parking lot
Texas Police Want Uvalde Bodycam Footage Suppressed Because It Could Expose Law Enforcement ‘Weakness’
Texas Police Want Uvalde Bodycam Footage Suppressed Because It Could Expose Law Enforcement ‘Weakness’
Abbott's handwritten notes show what governor was told after Uvalde shooting
Handwritten notes released to 13 Investigates on Monday reveal what Gov. Greg Abbott was told about the confusing police response after the Uvalde shooting.
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Supposedly his culture wars are costing the state money tho...
DeSantis’ ‘culture war’ laws have cost Florida taxpayers 10 times more than planned
Gov. Ron DeSantis has been using his position of power to make as many “culture wars” headlines as possible over the past couple of years. Besides ripping off Donald Trump’s mannerisms and even trying to figure out ways to boost the Donald’s worst...
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Police in the Dallas area kill a gunman who entered a summer camp for kids
Authorities credit the fast response by camp staff and police with preventing injuries to anyone else.
www.npr.org
The cover-up now has a schedule.... six months.... long enough for Abbott to get re-elected... Uvalde DA is going to keep things under wraps till then... she's gonna pretend she's investigating, then won't say shit after he's elected... it's too close to the Christmas holidays, we want to protect the families... you won't hear shit from her to Jan 2023..... the mayor's hiding behind her too 
Six months for answers, says DA
Christina Mitchell, 38th Judicial District Attorney, said Friday that she expects the investigation into the May 24 Robb Elementary School shooting to take at least six months, if not longer, to complete.
“We’re getting bits and pieces, but getting the whole big picture is going to be a while,” Mitchell said.
Investigators have largely stopped providing updates about what happened in the approximately 80 minutes that led to the death of 19 students, two teachers, and the gunman who slaughtered them.
The Texas Rangers and 38th Judicial District Attorney’s Office are investigating the shooting, and a U.S. Department of Justice review was also scheduled to begin last week.
After giving several press conferences and then having to alter details, officials with the Texas Department of Public Safety have ceased communicating about the investigation. At a press conference given June 9, Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District officials said they were unable to comment on details of the investigation.
Mitchell said she is not planning any press conferences or statements on the investigation at this time.
Mitchell is being aided by two other district attorneys, including Audrey Louis, from the 81st District, who was involved in the investigation into the 2017 Sutherland Springs church shooting, as well as Tonya Spaeth Ahlschwede with the 452nd District.
“Retired Brazos County District Attorney Bill Turner is also serving to assist my office in the law enforcement investigation with the Texas Rangers and the FBI,” Mitchell said.
She is also utilizing state and federal resources to help coordinate the Uvalde Together Resiliency Center.
“Upon learning of the tragic event at Robb Elementary School, I requested all resources available by state and federal disaster victim services to assist my office in providing needed services for the families and victims of Robb Elementary School. Governor Abbott’s office was most accommodating to assist my office and Uvalde County with whatever services were needed,” Mitchell said.
She said district and county attorneys from across Texas have assisted her office with staff, including Victim Assistance Coordinators, to provide services in Uvalde County.
“In addition to focusing on the investigation of the Texas Rangers and the FBI, I am also heavily involved in establishing the long-term Uvalde Together Resiliency Center for the entire community of Uvalde. This center will provide counseling and other services to the Uvalde community as a whole for years to come,” Mitchell said.
Six months for answers, says DA - Uvalde Leader News
Six months for answers, says DA
Christina Mitchell, 38th Judicial District Attorney, said Friday that she expects the investigation into the May 24 Robb Elementary School shooting to take at least six months, if not longer, to complete.
“We’re getting bits and pieces, but getting the whole big picture is going to be a while,” Mitchell said.
Investigators have largely stopped providing updates about what happened in the approximately 80 minutes that led to the death of 19 students, two teachers, and the gunman who slaughtered them.
The Texas Rangers and 38th Judicial District Attorney’s Office are investigating the shooting, and a U.S. Department of Justice review was also scheduled to begin last week.
After giving several press conferences and then having to alter details, officials with the Texas Department of Public Safety have ceased communicating about the investigation. At a press conference given June 9, Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District officials said they were unable to comment on details of the investigation.
Mitchell said she is not planning any press conferences or statements on the investigation at this time.
Mitchell is being aided by two other district attorneys, including Audrey Louis, from the 81st District, who was involved in the investigation into the 2017 Sutherland Springs church shooting, as well as Tonya Spaeth Ahlschwede with the 452nd District.
“Retired Brazos County District Attorney Bill Turner is also serving to assist my office in the law enforcement investigation with the Texas Rangers and the FBI,” Mitchell said.
She is also utilizing state and federal resources to help coordinate the Uvalde Together Resiliency Center.
“Upon learning of the tragic event at Robb Elementary School, I requested all resources available by state and federal disaster victim services to assist my office in providing needed services for the families and victims of Robb Elementary School. Governor Abbott’s office was most accommodating to assist my office and Uvalde County with whatever services were needed,” Mitchell said.
She said district and county attorneys from across Texas have assisted her office with staff, including Victim Assistance Coordinators, to provide services in Uvalde County.
“In addition to focusing on the investigation of the Texas Rangers and the FBI, I am also heavily involved in establishing the long-term Uvalde Together Resiliency Center for the entire community of Uvalde. This center will provide counseling and other services to the Uvalde community as a whole for years to come,” Mitchell said.
Six months for answers, says DA - Uvalde Leader News
After the elections. How convenient.
The federal government have to take over this investigation I don’t trust no one in Texas to do a fair investigation on this tragedy…theres going to be a lot of coverupsThe cover-up now has a schedule.... six months.... long enough for Abbott to get re-elected... Uvalde DA is going to keep things under wraps till then... she's gonna pretend she's investigating, then won't say shit after he's elected... it's too close to the Christmas holidays, we want to protect the families... you won't hear shit from her to Jan 2023..... the mayor's hiding behind her too
Six months for answers, says DA
Christina Mitchell, 38th Judicial District Attorney, said Friday that she expects the investigation into the May 24 Robb Elementary School shooting to take at least six months, if not longer, to complete.
“We’re getting bits and pieces, but getting the whole big picture is going to be a while,” Mitchell said.
Investigators have largely stopped providing updates about what happened in the approximately 80 minutes that led to the death of 19 students, two teachers, and the gunman who slaughtered them.
The Texas Rangers and 38th Judicial District Attorney’s Office are investigating the shooting, and a U.S. Department of Justice review was also scheduled to begin last week.
After giving several press conferences and then having to alter details, officials with the Texas Department of Public Safety have ceased communicating about the investigation. At a press conference given June 9, Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District officials said they were unable to comment on details of the investigation.
Mitchell said she is not planning any press conferences or statements on the investigation at this time.
Mitchell is being aided by two other district attorneys, including Audrey Louis, from the 81st District, who was involved in the investigation into the 2017 Sutherland Springs church shooting, as well as Tonya Spaeth Ahlschwede with the 452nd District.
“Retired Brazos County District Attorney Bill Turner is also serving to assist my office in the law enforcement investigation with the Texas Rangers and the FBI,” Mitchell said.
She is also utilizing state and federal resources to help coordinate the Uvalde Together Resiliency Center.
“Upon learning of the tragic event at Robb Elementary School, I requested all resources available by state and federal disaster victim services to assist my office in providing needed services for the families and victims of Robb Elementary School. Governor Abbott’s office was most accommodating to assist my office and Uvalde County with whatever services were needed,” Mitchell said.
She said district and county attorneys from across Texas have assisted her office with staff, including Victim Assistance Coordinators, to provide services in Uvalde County.
“In addition to focusing on the investigation of the Texas Rangers and the FBI, I am also heavily involved in establishing the long-term Uvalde Together Resiliency Center for the entire community of Uvalde. This center will provide counseling and other services to the Uvalde community as a whole for years to come,” Mitchell said.
Six months for answers, says DA - Uvalde Leader News
"ProPublica and The Texas Tribune have submitted about 70 public information requests that could help answer larger questions as state and local leaders continue to offer conflicting accounts about why law enforcement did not confront the gunman sooner during the May 24 massacre. Those requests include 911 audio recordings, body and police car camera footage, and communications among local, state and federal agencies. The newsrooms also requested use-of-force documents, death records and ballistic reports."
kinda sounding like carlin lol
Unhoused students in California could receive $1,000 monthly checks under a new bill.
The bill would provide enough funding for 15,000 students, which is the number of seniors in public high schools who in the 2020-21 school year were living homeless.
Remember how specific they were about the gunman killing all of the victims? I guarantee it will come out they shot some of the kids...
"Above all, Uvalde is a clear sign that the benefits of police militarization have been profoundly oversold. Any police leader who does not recognize Uvalde as a foundational challenge to police legitimacy is a fool. The rationale for creating thousands of SWAT teams across the United States was that the good guys with guns would stop the bad guys with guns. For that promise, we have accepted a more and more militarized and aggressive police culture, with serious damage to basic constitutional liberties. What we got in return is 19 cops standing outside a classroom while children were slaughtered. We cannot continue to accept this culture."
Arthur Rizer is the founder of the ARrow Center for Justice Reform and an adjunct professor at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. He is a former police officer, federal prosecutor, and U.S. Army combat veteran.
U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, said he was upset by the new details.
“As more of the story comes out, I’m shocked like the rest of the country at the incompetence and dereliction of duty by multiple law enforcement agencies who failed to save those kids,” Castro said. “I’m also increasingly disturbed by what looks like an attempt to cover up the truth by state officials and the local police department who have refused to comply with requests to release information to the public.”
Yo something major is going on in Texas because this story just is getting worse and worse and worse and it looks like the Texas state officials is helping this Texas City cover up their bullshit. People of Texas you guys better get your shit together or is going to be hell on earth