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(CNN)   Uvalde mayor vows senior coward who knew children needed rescuing from Robb Elementary will be gone 'by the end of this week'   (cnn.com) divider line
    More: Followup, Police, Constable, actions of Lt. Mariano Pargas, Texas, Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin, city officials, Lt. Pargas, Chief of police  
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2022-11-16 5:43:13 AM  
Too little, too late.
ACAB. And cowards.
 
2022-11-16 5:44:01 AM  
Every cop who was on that campus within those 77 minutes and did nothing should hand over their badge. They all knew the situation. It's the only honorable thing left for them to do.
 
2022-11-16 5:50:38 AM  

August11: Every cop who was on that campus within those 77 minutes and did nothing should hand over their badge. They all knew the situation. It's the only honorable thing left for them to do.


I want to add my voice to this.  I agree wholeheartedly.
 
2022-11-16 5:50:58 AM  
Hello Goat! Is your name Scape?
 
2022-11-16 5:55:19 AM  
But wait, I thought they already held Abbott's election.
 
2022-11-16 5:55:28 AM  

Darkmeer: August11: Every cop who was on that campus within those 77 minutes and did nothing should hand over their badge. They all knew the situation. It's the only honorable thing left for them to do.

I want to add my voice to this.  I agree wholeheartedly.


But they could have gotten hurt! Blue lives matter, buster!
 
2022-11-16 5:55:40 AM  
Damn this guy is almost taking longer than those cops did to act...almost.
 
2022-11-16 5:57:05 AM  
Nothing short of long prison sentences will make me happy. Well offing themselves from pure shame would be okay I guess..

My biggest shock is that one of the dads has not taken this into his own hands. Where I am from it isnt unknown to wait a couple yrs and someone go check their mail and not return over crimes against children. These backwoods folks will wait a lifetime to exact revenge/justice and dont care if anyone ever knows they did it as long as they themselves know
 
2022-11-16 5:59:02 AM  

August11: Every cop who was on that campus within those 77 minutes and did nothing should hand over their badge. They all knew the situation. It's the only honorable thing left for them to do.


How do they walk around that town as a cop afterwards?  How do they pretend to have any authority?

That's right-the guns. The same ones they wouldn't use to protect children.
 
2022-11-16 5:59:09 AM  

August11: Every cop who was on that campus within those 77 minutes and did nothing should hand over their badge. They all knew the situation. It's the only honorable thing left for them to do.


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I disagree. There's still one last thing.
 
2022-11-16 5:59:51 AM  
Eight months after it happened, following a massively bungled coverup attempt that is still ongoing.
 
2022-11-16 6:00:29 AM  

August11: Every cop who was on that campus within those 77 minutes and did nothing should hand over their badge. They all knew the situation. It's the only honorable thing left for them to do.


Yeah! Make them go get a job in Kingsville! That'll show them.
 
2022-11-16 6:22:26 AM  
I live in... let's call it a village. Next to two larger cities with heavy cops. Our PD is loaded with trucks because they spend more time moving signs than chasing criminals because the streets won't cooperate with speeding. But they hover on the schools because they know there is a problem with parental interference. If you hold the doors and gates, the interior is going to be safer.

/our detective drives a Ford Taurus
//symbolic of how little he works and calls for sheriff help in cases
 
2022-11-16 6:33:52 AM  

A_Flying_Toaster: August11: Every cop who was on that campus within those 77 minutes and did nothing should hand over their badge. They all knew the situation. It's the only honorable thing left for them to do.

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I disagree. There's still one last thing.


Came for this, leaving unsatisfied because the whole situation is sick.
 
2022-11-16 6:49:41 AM  

August11: Every cop who was on that campus within those 77 minutes and did nothing should hand over their badge. They all knew the situation. It's the only honorable thing left for them to do.


There's one other honorable thing I'd like to see them do.
 
2022-11-16 6:50:33 AM  

August11: Every cop who was on that campus within those 77 minutes and did nothing should hand over their badge. They all knew the situation. It's the only honorable thing left for them to do.


They're dishonourable cowards, so don't expect much of their own volition.
 
2022-11-16 6:54:49 AM  

August11: Every cop who was on that campus within those 77 minutes and did nothing should hand over their badge. They all knew the situation. It's the only honorable thing left for them to do.


They have adequately displayed, for the whole world to see, they do not have any honour.
 
2022-11-16 6:56:58 AM  
If "nice work, Lou" were a picture:

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2022-11-16 6:59:59 AM  
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Almost as bad as these guys
 
2022-11-16 7:03:38 AM  
How's it taken this long?
 
2022-11-16 7:05:47 AM  
All those cops will all be outta there, they'll be gone - you have my word - before Halley's comet returns.  They've just got to put the finishing touches on their shiat smearing coverups and get fully vested in the retirement program...Oh, and they'll like one more tacticool photo of their gang, fully kitted out, impotently brandishing their weapons - just to remember them by.

Is that so much to ask?

But then?  Gone, I tell you what.

/If nothing else, it's certainly highlighted cop's actual responsibilities
//And their capabilities
///and their natural propensities  <oink>
 
2022-11-16 7:06:09 AM  
Probably making sure he gets to keep his full pension. Dude looks an unhealthy 68, there's nowhere for him to go that isn't retirement.
 
2022-11-16 7:06:54 AM  
I don't know if they'll actually do it.

That town voted for the guy who thought that giving the cops DNA kits to identify the bodies of kids who got too mangled in school shootings was all he needed to do. That's CRAZY.

Before I would've thought that head figures in the police department there would have to slink away to neighboring towns and get jobs there instead from social pressure alone, now I'm not sure they'll even need to do that.
 
2022-11-16 7:24:21 AM  

thrillbilly1967: Nothing short of long prison sentences will make me happy. Well offing themselves from pure shame would be okay I guess..

My biggest shock is that one of the dads has not taken this into his own hands. Where I am from it isnt unknown to wait a couple yrs and someone go check their mail and not return over crimes against children. These backwoods folks will wait a lifetime to exact revenge/justice and dont care if anyone ever knows they did it as long as they themselves know


You know the payout that Alex Jones has to make? Same or more, and money comes from the officers personally, and/or that pension fund.

And I swear the Uvalde cops must have a security force protecting them that rivals Secret Service, Blackwater, or any other "I can pay for my own private army". Otherwise, at least one would be dead by now.
 
2022-11-16 7:29:25 AM  

Bslim: If "nice work, Lou" were a picture:

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Why is he holding his gun like that? Did he just find it on the ground or something?
 
2022-11-16 7:30:26 AM  
Coward police waited well over an hour to act.

Coward Mayor waits well over six months to act...and his grand action is to promise.... That the guy responsible won't have a job by the end of the week.

For a normal American, not having a job at the end of the week is a constant threat. My employer just did another round of layoffs. At-will employment is the norm. Losing a job means nothing. That's not punishment.

Only... He won't even be fired. He's old fart, undoubtedly with decades on the force.

McLaughlin said attorneys for the city will now see if Pargas, 65, will resign or if further action is needed.

Him resigning is, almost certainty, the literal equivalent of retiring. He will enjoy a pension for the rest of his life, the type of pension 95% of Americans will never get.

The guy probably hasn't actually worked a day in the last 10 years. As demonstrated by his inability to do his job. For him, the job was dressing up, acting like a big shiat, and hanging out at work with the boys.

And the Mayor is sitting around while CNN does his job?!?!

He complained that he and city leaders had been repeatedly blindsided by CNN's investigative reporting on the law enforcement response

All these a holes should be in prison.
 
2022-11-16 8:01:32 AM  
Every time I think about this it pisses me off all over again and I want to rage about it.  But I'm having trouble with my blood pressure so I'm going to go an pat my doggies and stay on the dawww tab today.
 
2022-11-16 8:06:56 AM  

Barricaded Gunman: Bslim: If "nice work, Lou" were a picture:

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Why is he holding his gun like that? Did he just find it on the ground or something?


That's the casual "constitutional grip"
 
2022-11-16 8:22:12 AM  

August11: Every cop who was on that campus within those 77 minutes and did nothing should hand over their badge. They all knew the situation. It's the only honorable thing left for them to do.


No. There is something honorable they could do. But they are too cowardly
 
2022-11-16 8:22:15 AM  

Barricaded Gunman: Why is he holding his gun like that?


I thought rule number one when owning a gun was to never put your finger on the trigger unless you're going to fire the weapon?

At least he knows that when handling a firearm.

Holding it haphazardly like that is complete laziness and downright dangerous.
 
2022-11-16 8:23:51 AM  

LeoffDaGrate: But wait, I thought they already held Abbott's election.


They did, and the county voted for Abbott. https://www.khou.com/article/news/special-reports/uvalde-school-shooting/uvalde-texas-voting-results/285-fde5178f-2a5d-41c0-b946-03ef44253d57
 
2022-11-16 8:34:44 AM  
So, all of them?
 
2022-11-16 8:39:25 AM  

August11: Every cop who was on that campus within those 77 minutes and did nothing should hand over their badge. They all knew the situation. It's the only honorable thing left for them to do.


Resign AND sign a binding contract stating they will never again seek employment in any capacity as law enforcement or public safety agents.

Penalty: pay "Alex Jones" level fees to the families, do not pass GO.
 
2022-11-16 8:41:01 AM  

A_Flying_Toaster: August11: Every cop who was on that campus within those 77 minutes and did nothing should hand over their badge. They all knew the situation. It's the only honorable thing left for them to do.

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I disagree. There's still one last thing.


Kinda want to see if that county has seen an uptick in sword purchases on Amazon
 
2022-11-16 8:42:28 AM  

Ghost Roach: August11: Every cop who was on that campus within those 77 minutes and did nothing should hand over their badge. They all knew the situation. It's the only honorable thing left for them to do.

Resign AND sign a binding contract stating they will never again seek employment in any capacity as law enforcement or public safety agents.

Penalty: pay "Alex Jones" level fees to the families, do not pass GO.


Nice idea, but that wouldn't be enforceable.
 
2022-11-16 8:44:39 AM  
The guy won't be out of a job very long. Cop union will get him reinstated, with back pay. If not, he'll be hired by another P.D.

In a just world, the guy would lose his pension. Let's see how he likes working at Walmart to make ends meet.
 
2022-11-16 8:44:56 AM  

Barricaded Gunman: Bslim: If "nice work, Lou" were a picture:

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Why is he holding his gun like that? Did he just find it on the ground or something?


It's how they taught him at Tacti-school.

They gave him a neat vest with a patch to show what a good student he was
 
2022-11-16 8:53:35 AM  
Hopefully that means something more sinister than being fired.
 
2022-11-16 8:55:41 AM  

August11: Every cop who was on that campus within those 77 minutes and did nothing should hand over their badge. They all knew the situation. It's the only honorable thing left for them to do.


They could do another honorable thing and kill themselves.
 
2022-11-16 8:57:57 AM  
All of this - including the outrage from the public and media - seems entirely performative.
 
2022-11-16 8:58:32 AM  
I stand with Trump and BRAVE police and First Responders who Protect my constitutional rights.  Prayers for Uvalde police and their families.
 
2022-11-16 8:59:47 AM  

August11: Every cop who was on that campus within those 77 minutes and did nothing should hand over their badge. They all knew the situation. It's the only honorable thing left for them to do.


Should, but won't. The guy in the article has been getting paid this whole time for not even working. He will have another job within a week somewhere else (and has had months to get that lined up already).

In the medical field, they don't play. "Hey Nurse, you stood by and watched that patient die from a preventable episode." Me: "yeah, I know. I had on a new uniform and didn't want to get it dirty. They were bleeding and I couldn't find a set of gloves that were the right color. The blue ones make my skin chafe, and I had just gotten a manicure." "oh, we understand completely. Take a few months off with pay. If the family is still hounding us, well let you know so you can have time to apply at our sister hospital."

No. Period. I would have been suspended without pay that moment. My license would be revoked and I'd be unemployable in the medical field in the entire country.
 
2022-11-16 9:14:27 AM  

August11: Every cop who was on that campus within those 77 minutes and did nothing should hand over their badge. They all knew the situation. It's the only honorable thing left for them to do.


All of this. They were all accessories to murder.

None of them should be spared the consequences.
 
2022-11-16 9:18:03 AM  

August11: Every cop who was on that campus within those 77 minutes and did nothing should hand over their badge. They all knew the situation. It's the only honorable thing left for them to do.


They should do the needful and eat their guns
 
2022-11-16 9:34:30 AM  

jso2897: All of this - including the outrage from the public and media - seems entirely performative.


yea, people aren't genuinely upset that a roomful of children were killed one by one as the police stood by and did zippo for an hour.    Clearly you see through the charade cuz you are so smart.
 
2022-11-16 10:29:37 AM  

asmodeus224: jso2897: All of this - including the outrage from the public and media - seems entirely performative.

yea, people aren't genuinely upset that a roomful of children were killed one by one as the police stood by and did zippo for an hour.    Clearly you see through the charade cuz you are so smart.


Nice performance, tough guy. I'm totally intimidated by your internet sincerity.
 
2022-11-16 10:55:11 AM  

Fark_Guy_Rob: Coward police waited well over an hour to act.

Coward Mayor waits well over six months to act...and his grand action is to promise.... That the guy responsible won't have a job by the end of the week.

For a normal American, not having a job at the end of the week is a constant threat. My employer just did another round of layoffs. At-will employment is the norm. Losing a job means nothing. That's not punishment.

Only... He won't even be fired. He's old fart, undoubtedly with decades on the force.

McLaughlin said attorneys for the city will now see if Pargas, 65, will resign or if further action is needed.

Him resigning is, almost certainty, the literal equivalent of retiring. He will enjoy a pension for the rest of his life, the type of pension 95% of Americans will never get.

The guy probably hasn't actually worked a day in the last 10 years. As demonstrated by his inability to do his job. For him, the job was dressing up, acting like a big shiat, and hanging out at work with the boys.

And the Mayor is sitting around while CNN does his job?!?!

He complained that he and city leaders had been repeatedly blindsided by CNN's investigative reporting on the law enforcement response

All these a holes should be in prison.


thrillbilly1967: Nothing short of long prison sentences will make me happy. Well offing themselves from pure shame would be okay I guess..

My biggest shock is that one of the dads has not taken this into his own hands. Where I am from it isnt unknown to wait a couple yrs and someone go check their mail and not return over crimes against children. These backwoods folks will wait a lifetime to exact revenge/justice and dont care if anyone ever knows they did it as long as they themselves know


The guy is obviously a bad cop, didn't do his job and doesn't deserve to be a cop, but what crime did he commit?  Serious question.
 
2022-11-16 11:33:09 AM  

thrillbilly1967: Nothing short of long prison sentences will make me happy. Well offing themselves from pure shame would be okay I guess..

My biggest shock is that one of the dads has not taken this into his own hands. Where I am from it isnt unknown to wait a couple yrs and someone go check their mail and not return over crimes against children. These backwoods folks will wait a lifetime to exact revenge/justice and dont care if anyone ever knows they did it as long as they themselves know


Lifetime, hell.

Down where my roots are, in the Ohio River Valley, there have been generational grudges.

Once in a while, though, justice came swift, terrible, and final.

Back in the summer of 1934, a few Klansmen showed up in the area where my grandfather was from. Now, this area was pretty enlightened for the era- it had been a stop on the Underground Railroad, and the schools integrated decades before Brown.

So they weren't going to find much sympathy there.

Three came into town. Two got roughed up and left with their tails between their legs.

One didn't. He went into the holler, and was discovered later, dead on the side of the road. He was dressed in his white robe and hood, but the body was burned to nearly-unrecognizable.

Official cause of death per the coroner was "accidental" burning. The hillfolk knew better. They killed his ass, burned the body, and dressed him up to send a message.
 
2022-11-16 11:52:49 AM  

A_Flying_Toaster: August11: Every cop who was on that campus within those 77 minutes and did nothing should hand over their badge. They all knew the situation. It's the only honorable thing left for them to do.

[Fark user image 425x239]

I disagree. There's still one last thing.


Unlikely, but if  Arredondo had a shred of integrity in him he would publicly commit seppuku without a kaishakunin to end his suffering.

The entire force should be subjected to decimation, full stop.
 
2022-11-16 11:59:37 AM  

August11: Every cop who was on that campus within those 77 minutes and did nothing should hand over their badge. They all knew the situation. It's the only honorable thing left for them to do.


And commit seppuku directly afterwards.
Preferably both things in ceremonial fashion.
Sell it live on pay per view.
Give all proceeds to the families of victims.
It won't bring the kids and teachers back, but the collective catharsis might boost our society into a better direction.
 
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