The Tribune has built its own timeline based on available CCTV and body cam footage, as well as police radio traffic.
Arredondo was on the scene, in the hallway, within minutes. Despite having the numbers and equipment in place - including a Harrigan breaching tool - they failed to take any further action until the CBP tactical team showed up. What is clear to me is that they were petrified (literally) to go up against a teenager with an assault rifle.
The police failings here - most notably Arredondo who twice tried to talk to the shooter after hearing further gunshots in the rooms - are terrible and tragic, but do not themselves merit the kind of cover up the state is trying to pull off here. This is all about the gun lobby leaning on the state to protect the right to sell AR-15-style rifles over the dead and dying bodies of children.
When discussing this with a gun âaficionadoâ this weekend and how ludicrous it is to expect a more-effective response by armed teachers than from this highly trained, highly equipped tactical police force, his response was simply, âthose cops were not defending themselves and teachers would be so they would be better motivatedâ. This is the level of deliberate ignorance weâre dealing with here.
Even if Trump looks into the camera and says âyeah, I lost, but Iâm gonna try to cheat my way back into office, starting with sending these goons to the Capitol to execute Mike Penceâ, neither Congress nor the DOJ will act on it.
Donations to Trumpâs re-election campaign will pour in.
The Texas Republican Party is one of the largest and most influential state parties in the nation. But it is also among the most radical. Successful candidates nominated by the Texas GOP have implemented a near-total abortion ban, ordered investigations of the parents of trans youth, and filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Over the weekend thousands of Texas Republicans descended on Houston, where the Texas GOP held its annual convention. During the gathering, the party produced its platform. The new platform makes clear that the Texas Republican Party intends to pursue an even more extreme agenda. Among the platformâs declarations:
âHomosexuality is an abnormal lifestyle choice.â
âWe reject the certified results of the 2020 Presidential election, and we hold that acting President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States.â
âWe urge that the Voting Rights Act of 1965, codified and updated in 1973, be repealed and not reauthorized.â
â[T]he federal government has impaired our right of local self-government⌠Texas retains the right to secede from the United States, and the Texas Legislature should be called upon to pass a referendum consistent thereto.â
âTexas students should learn⌠life begins at fertilization.â
â[A]ll gun control is a violation of the Second Amendment and our God given rights.â
The platform also condemns Senator Cornyn and other Senate Republicans working with Democrats on a package of modest gun safety measures. Less than a month ago, 21 people, including 19 children, were murdered during a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
You know if they win in November I think itâll be time to leave the state, let them have it. I know itâs defeatist and doesnât help at all with turning the state blue but I donât know. We have dual US/EU citizenship so thatâs one option; or maybe stay in the US, perhaps New Mexico? Feeling very powerless and defeated at the moment.
Testimony of fake electors is very compelling. They were lied to about why they were signing the fake certificates. They said that Sen. Ron Johnson was on board with delivering the fake certificates to Pence on Jan 6.
AZ Speaker Rusty Bowers was on the verge of tears during points in his testimony. He asked for evidence of fraud multiple times, and was told by Giuliani multiple times that they had it, until he finally admitted they had theories but no evidence. Ultimately, Eastman told him to âjust do itâ (he didnât). When he didnât, the goon squad threatened his family and neighbors.
Also, text conversations about overthrowing the election start with the phrase âSup?â
