Texas Senator Defends Police Inaction During Massacre

The Insider reports:

Despite law enforcement changing their story about what occurred during this week’s school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, at least a dozen times, GOP Sen. John Cornyn tweeted on Saturday that “second-guessing” the police response to the incident is “unfair.” Cornyn’s comments were added to an earlier post from Texas Rep. Tony Gonzalez that indicated the Uvalde police department had interrupted a 2018 plot by two teenage boys to commit a shooting at Uvalde High School.

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The second guessing and finger pointing among state and local law enforcement is destructive, distracting, and unfair. Complex scenarios require split second decisions. Easy to criticize with 20-20 hindsight https://t.co/ssq2FAInDX

— Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) May 28, 2022

If you think your stalling is going to make us stop talking about this, you’re wrong. Your pals’ speeches at the @NRA just keep digging the hole.

— Rachel Vindman ? (@natsechobbyist) May 29, 2022

The parents were criticizing them in real time, not hindsight. It wasn’t split second, it was more than an hour.

— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) May 28, 2022

Wait until he finds out that there are politicians who think every American should be able to make those catastrophically deadly split second* decisions with no training and with military grade firearms. https://t.co/bOo1zO9IMm

— Rep. John Yarmuth (@RepJohnYarmuth) May 29, 2022

I saw 18 year old boys in war do split second decisions. There is no excuse these officers need to be held accountable. https://t.co/njUoE79Alu

— Ruben Gallego (@RubenGallego) May 28, 2022

Up to 19 police officers waited for 78 minutes in that hallway outside the classroom, while the shooter was inside murdering little children. That’s a hell of a lot of “split seconds” — 4,680 to be exact. Every second that passed was a second that another child could be killed.

— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) May 28, 2022

Lord have mercy. I don’t remember this kind of statement during a massive withdrawal in a war zone where less people lost their life in one day in Uvalde.

— Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) May 28, 2022