From the very beginning of the Uvalde shooting,
that tragedy was made worse by virtually everything the cops chose to do and
the ways that they chose to misinform the public about what actually happened.
And day after day, we would learn more and
more of the stuff that they had said that it was just not true.
And almost always it was designed to cover up their own failures.
The fact that they did not react when they were supposed to,
the likelihood that more people died as a result of it.
And you might be surprised to find out that there is still more we could find out
actually.
There is in theory body cam footage that we could take a look at.
But they don't want you to.
And isn't that convenient?
The group that's been lying the whole time that massively failed those kids now
doesn't want you to learn more about what they were doing and saying on that day.
So they're evading requests for records that are coming in from a lot of
different people and we want to break down what they're saying.
Their argument as to why we shouldn't see that footage.
The Texas Department of Public Safety they asked the state's Office of
the Attorney General to prevent the public release of police body camera footage from
the mass shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde in part because, it argues,
the footage could be used by other shooters to determine weaknesses in
police responses to crimes.
In the letter, attorneys revealed there have been 148 requests for
information that have been made to the city from May 25,
right following the attack to June 7, by media organizations and individuals.
So don't do it.
Don't give in because that may allow other shooters to determine
weaknesses in police responses to crimes.
And I would like to just get out in front of this and say,
you don't need to worry about that, okay?
You don't need to worry about them poring over the footage and
figuring out their weaknesses because they're all, they're everywhere.
Everybody in the country knows about your weaknesses.
You don't go in.
That's a pretty significant weakness that they could just go in there begin killing
people and an hour can go by.
We don't need body cam footage to know about your weaknesses,
literally everyone does.
That's why you're saying this because of your weaknesses.
But they're trying to stop people from, I don't know, maybe overhearing on the body
cam footage what people, including the chief in charge was saying yes.
Maybe conversation between the officers, maybe there were cops who were frustrated
and wanted to go in, but were being stopped from it.
I don't know.
But if they get their way, we will never know.
What do you think? >> Yeah, and
unfortunately they might get their way, right?
I mean, they're the ones who are holding onto these body cam camera footage.
And the thing is with a lot of this is that it is just another deflection.
And we're so used to just like bouncing off deflections all the time, just
trying to like get straight to the actual issue, which is gun control in America.
And or like what Matthew McConaughey was talking about gun responsibility,
whatever you want to call it, right?
It's just another deflection, right?
And also if you have camera footage and you don't want people to see it,
isn't that already just kind of an inherent admission of guilt, right?
But then the problem is that some people would hear their reasoning behind why they
don't want the public to see this footage and say, yeah, maybe they have a point.
But it's like what you said, anyone can tell you what the weaknesses were based on
the information that we already know, the things that we've already seen, right?
And then the officer who was in charge, he came out days after like way after
the actual shooting happened, and he said, yeah, I did everything that I should have
done and I'm proud of the response and all that.
And he didn't say anything out of respect for the families,
which was just more of an insult than anything he could have otherwise said.
And I mean that guy, but I think it was the next day or
two days after the shooting.
He swore in as a member of the city council.
And to be fair, he was elected prior to the shooting.
But the decent thing would have been to step down, because if you were given so
much responsibility and you do not wield it correctly, you don't get to have more.
You shouldn't be allowed to have more responsibility.
>> That is so reasonable.
But going along with that would hamper his political ambitions.
So he's not gonna do that.
But no, you're totally right.
And look, some people in the chat, I understand are saying that all of this
footage should be made instantly available in every case.
And I understand the concern, that there are actual concerns though about,
when cops talk to people who have been sexually assaulted and everything,
do you want that bodycam footage being publicly available, literally anyone else?
I'm assuming the victims in most cases do not.
So you can't have just everything beat like dumped in a drop box
as soon as it's recorded.
But that said, look who's buying their argument about trying to make it so
that shooters can't determine how they detect and investigate things?
We know how they do it.
They set up the tape and then they stand there for an hour.
Okay, we understand their tactics.
They're just trying to cover their asses.
And this is the case where somebody needs to be empowered to step in and
make sure that that footage is made available.
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