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Almost a month after the bloodbath that left 19 youngsters and two academics lifeless in Uvalde, Texas, a lot of the nation appears to have moved on. However The Every day Present’s Trevor Noah couldn’t ignore the newest revelations concerning the shockingly insufficient response from police.
“Whereas shootings like this are at all times traumatic, this explicit one has been made worse by how the police in Uvalde have responded,” the host stated on Tuesday. “They didn’t go in, they waited for an hour, after which they even stopped mother and father from attempting to avoid wasting their very own children. And if that wasn’t dangerous sufficient, they’ve been attempting to dam details about that day from popping out.”
After exhibiting new photos of officers inside the varsity constructing with semi-automatic rifles and ballistic shields, and information stories that exposed the door to the classroom the place the shooter was “couldn’t have been locked from the within,” as police beforehand claimed, Noah stated, “This story retains on getting worse and worse.”
Whereas we “already knew” that the officers “waited far too lengthy to confront the shooter,” he stated that now we additionally know that they “lied about not having sufficient weapons to go in.”
“What else have been they ready for, the invincible star from Mario?” Noah requested. “Get the fuck within the room! How did they not go in? They didn’t even attempt to get within the classroom. They didn’t even strive!”
Noah joked that even individuals ready exterior a locked rest room at Starbucks will “jiggle the deal with” simply to ensure it’s occupied.
“And what’s insane about this entire story?” he requested. “The one time it might have been acceptable to go in weapons blazing, the cops resolve to have a picnic exterior. However for those who’re Black or have a damaged taillight, then hastily they go all Rambo in your ass.”
All of that is “one other reminder,” he argued, that “you may’t simply belief what police say” and journalists “shouldn’t be reporting what the police stated, they need to be reporting what truly occurred.”
“As a result of time and time once more, we study that cops in America mainly use the identical precept as toddlers,” Noah concluded. “They’ll inform the reality, however solely so long as it doesn’t get them in bother.”
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