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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 83 points 1 month ago (38 children)

Kinda off topic, but I hate seeing this picture.

But to Uvalde residents and officials investigating the shooting, the footage showed something else. The officer depicted is Ruben Ruiz, whose wife, Eva Mireles, lay dying inside one of the classrooms with the gunman.

Mireles told Ruiz in a phone call that she had been shot. Ruiz, standing in the hallway with his pistol drawn, was unable to get to her. Other officers ultimately escorted Ruiz from the scene and took his gun. Mireles was alive when police transported her from the classroom, but she died before reaching the hospital.

So maybe let's not post this any more?

[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Such a coward he wouldn't even save his wife.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

See the documentary and get back to me:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/inside-the-uvalde-response/

It'll take an hour, and it will fucking hurt. Man the fuck up and have a look before you mouth off. SPOILER: It doesn't make excuses for the cops. But it ain't what you think either.

EDIT: Seems some pussies aren't able to handle actual evidence. Huh. How very conservative.

[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't know why you're trying so hard to convince me that dudes a chicken shit

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

^ Didn't watch the video. So, too chickenshit to learn something that may go against your preconceived notions. You'd fight right in with the conservative FaceBook gang!

[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today 0 points 1 month ago

I don't owe you, an internet stranger, my time. And calling someone names expecting2 them to comply with your demand for their time is a bizarre tactic and also a dick move. Unless you can summarize this video in a paragraph tops, I just don't care and with how shitty a person you're showing yourself to be, we're really down to one or two sentences which is more of my attention then you deserve.

[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] i_ben_fine@midwest.social 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What would any one of us done if we had a gun and a vest and our family was in trouble? Obey orders, of course.

[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Right. See there’s the issue. Had he gone in, there is no way to know if it would have escalated the issue and more people would have died including himself or worse, more children.

It’s easy to sit on the sidelines and yell at the players in the game. We can pretend all day that we know what we’d do or even what the best thing to do would be-

But at the end of the day- until you’re put in the situation yourself, it’s best to keep the armchair edits to ourselves.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Agreed.

in the situation yourself

Not listening to people who want to take my AR-15 which is, as my 9-yo son stated, "the deadliest gun in the whole world!" LOL, it fires a hauling ass .22 bullet.

I hate cops, but this thing was fucking rough in so many ways. Almost every comment I read online is full of shit. I've posted the PBS documentary several times already, but you may also be interested. It's a hard watch, but if you want to understand, you gotta.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/inside-the-uvalde-response/

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] i_ben_fine@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

Is there an article version of this?

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