Joe Biden spoke out about disturbing revelations concerning the police response in the wake of the Uvalde shooting. Multiple reports have painted a bleak picture of officers waiting around for an hour, refusing to enter the building to try to stop Salvador Ramos’ rampage. Video footage of parents being detained outside has also been popular.
The classroom was only opened by a Border Patrol tactical team. It was then that the gunman entered the building. Inexplicably, the Border Patrol officers had inexplicably locked him in. He went on to kill almost all the children in the school.
While there was almost universal outrage at the incident, Joe Biden is able to take a different side. Biden refused to say yes when asked if he would demand an investigation into law enforcement’s response.
President Trump refused to order an inquiry into Uvalde’s police response to the Texas school shooting. @JoeBiden“Races the highest respect to the law enforcement officers.”
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— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) May 26, 2022
The White House refused to call for an investigation into the police response to the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, saying President Joe Biden “has the utmost respect for the men and women of law enforcement.”
The slow response of police to the attack has been criticised. Parents tried to get into the school by themselves, before Border Patrol arrived to assist them.
What’s so astonishing about this is how out of character it is for Biden. After Jacob Blake was justifiably killed, Biden slammed police. He’s the same guy who went after the Border Patrol for having reins on their horses, falsely accusing them of whipping migrants. He’s the same guy who still, even after having all the facts for years, blames police for shooting Michael Brown. Yet, in a situation actually worthy of rebuke and investigation, he’s got nothing to offer but praise?
I find it extremely unlikely that Biden is experiencing a spiritual awakening. Rather, I believe he’s being overtly political in his sudden tone shift regarding law enforcement. Why? Why?
There were many things that could have prevented the destruction in Uvalde. The terrible police response is the big one people are currently focused on, but there’s also the fact that the back door was unlocked and no SRO was on campus. But Biden doesn’t want to talk about those things because they aren’t about guns. They aren’t about ineffective universal background checks and unworkable fantasies about confiscation.
In short, I find Biden’s refusal to not criticize the police in this situation, after he’s done so in so many other situations where the police actually didn’t deserve it, to be incredibly cynical. As always, he’s operating as a rabid partisan, seeking to protect his talking points at all costs, to the point of ignoring the real solutions that are staring him in the face.
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