There have been a lot of bad stories that have come out of the Uvalde mass shooting. We saw the troubling picture that they had of the police at 11:52, in gear with a shield, and they didn’t go in for another 58 minutes. They didn’t even try the door as the minutes ticked away or they would have found it wasn’t even locked.
It’s hard to believe that there are still more coming out.
But the latest one may be one of the worst yet.
Texas Department of Public Safety Director Col. Steven McCraw testified on Wednesday about what happened to teacher Eva Mireles and it was heartbreaking. Ruben Ruiz was her husband. He was also a police officer in the district. McCraw says Ruiz got a call from her saying that she had been “shot and she’s dying.” Ruiz told the authorities in charge at the scene that at 11:48 a.m.
Listen for just a minute and it’s hard to take.
One can only speculate on who administered the training for this disaster. Did this shooting take our minds off massive inflation, out of control fuel costs and the disastrous exit from Afghanistan? Never let a good crisis go to waste? Makes me sick.