The real reason the Uvalde police stood outside and restrained those parents is a disease that pervades much of America called Retard Legalism.
There's a policy. Policy is to wait for SWAT. We have to follow the policy.
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In a similar vein, the police aren’t “legally” required to save people from harm.
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Reports of some of them going in and getting their own kid shows that the principal concern is to get paid while minimizing any sort of personal risk
We are obligated to pay taxes but the police are not obligated (to do anything), and many court cases have upheld this fact
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it went beyond that. a federal SWAT team showed up and police told them to wait.
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